It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything on this blog, sorry about that ! Since my last post I’ve discovered some wonderful composers that I never managed to get to listen to but with the ease of use of Spotify and Google Music and others. It is so easy to find the particular composer that you happen to hear by chance and discover more of there music with ease and less expense of buying an old fashioned cd! Some of my favourites of late are George Onslow, William Alwyn, Andrzej Panufnik his daughter Roxanna Panufnik , Philip Sawyers and Christopher Ball to name just a few. I hope to play the above mentioned composers on my radio show which of course will be podcasted here.

On this weeks Classical Sounds  there’s old and new music  by JS Bach, William Walton, Mozart and more. I’ve music by one of my favourite composers of late Hans Gál which is about 30mins into the show. I’m featuring two Irish composers the familiar John Field and the contemporary composer John Kinsella. Plus a wonderful recent cello concerto by a composer who is not widely known to some music reviewers but who’s music can be quite tuneful he’s called Philip Sawyers.

You can listen to just the music that I played on the embedded spotify link or the entire show on the mixcloud link below.

Classical Sounds 19/10/14 by Claremorrisfm on Mixcloud

Spotify Playlist of music played on the Show

I’ll start with some exciting news, I’ve been nominated for an award for this blog site from Blog Awards Ireland in the best music category. It’s in the long list stage yet but fingers crossed I’ll make it the short list!

On this weeks Classical Sounds with Andrew Newman I’ve something old by Beethoven, something retentively new with music by Ola Gjeilo. He is a US based Norwegian composer who seems to concentrate on choral music which is very approachable and melodic.  I’m continuing to discover the great music of Hans Gál, a short fugue written when he was in his 90th year! For you Gálites out there it’s about 25 minutes into the show.

This was first broadcast on Claremorris Community Radio on Sunday 27th July 2014.

Classical Sounds 27/07/14 by Claremorrisfm on Mixcloud

Here is also the Spotify playlist of the show for some unknown reason I couldn’t put  a track list on Mixcloud.

Spotify Playlist of music played on the Show

 On this weeks Classical Sounds with Andrew Newman, I have another gem from Hans Gál, the Austrian born composer who lived the majority of his life in Scotland. This time with his Concertino for violin and strings. Also music by Vivaldi, Mozart, Lehár, Beethoven and more. Enjoy !

This programme was broadcast on Claremorris Community Radio on Tuesday 17th June 2014.

Classical Sounds Tuesday 16th June 2014 by Claremorrisfm on Mixcloud

Spotify Playlist of music played on the Show

On this weeks Classical Sounds, I’ve a mixed bag of music. Starting with music originally written for piano by Edvard Grieg, then Handel, Carl Orff, Copland, Mozart and more besides. Listening back to it I notice i seem to be in a rush for no particular reason during the show,I don’t know why! I hope you enjoy the music anyway.

This programme was broadcast on Claremorris Community Radio on Sunday 8th June 2014.

Classical Sounds Sunday 8th June 2014 by Claremorrisfm on Mixcloud

Spotify Playlist of music played on the Show

This programme was broadcast on Claremorris Community Radio on Sunday 25th May .

Classical Sounds – May 27th by Claremorrisfm on Mixcloud

On this week’s show I thought I’d play actual popular classical music for a change with 2 slight exceptions, the first being the Double Violin concerto by Bach, and the second being music by a Viennese born composer called Hans Gál , whose music I’m a little obsessed with lately!

Add a comment below if you’d like to hear other obscure music.

Spotify Playlist of music played on the Show

On this weeks Classical Sounds programme I’ve music by which range from the early baroque to almost contemporary . Starting with with music by CPE Bach the second son of the great JS Bach and also a great composer in his own right. I’ve been listening to a lot of music by the Bach sons of late and you probably will be hearing more of their music over the next few weeks! Also music by Haydn which i reviewed in my previous post. The very young Mozart also appears with music written when he was 11!

This programme was broadcast on Claremorris Community Radio on 11/5/14

Direct link to the podcast

Podcast RSS feed

Spotify Playlist

Firstly apologies I somehow have lost the recording of last weeks Classical Sounds programme! But on this weeks show because the weather is better, (slightly!) there is a spring sort of feeling to them. Music by Greig, Mozart, Johann Strauss II, Beethoven and more. Hope you like it  :).

This programme was broadcast on 16th February 2014.

Direct link to the podcast

Podcast RSS feed

Spotify Playlist

On this week’s Classical Sounds I feature great recording of the late Claudio Abbado who died on the 20th January.  As I said in a previous post he was on my bucket list of great conductors I always wanted to see.

This programme was broadcast on Claremorris Community Radio Radio on Sunday 2nd February 2014

Direct link to the podcast

Podcast RSS feed

Spotify Playlist

An unusual tribute was given last week by  the La Scala  Philharmonic  Orchestra at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where they preformed in an “empty room with open door”   the Funeral March Second mov. Adagio  from the Symphony no. 3  by Beethoven, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim. Watch it below.

On Classical Sounds podcast this week I have featured only women composers from the past and present. Clara Schumann wife of German composer Robert, Fanny Mendelssohn sister of  composer Felix. Lesser known women like Amy Beach, Maria Theresia Paradis and others too. This was broadcast on Claremorris Community Radio on Sunday 19th January.
Direct link to the podcast

Podcast RSS feed

Spotify Playlist

Wishing you all a Happy New Year and all the best for 2014! I’ve been a little lazy with my blog, and haven’t got around to writing anything substantial recently, so I’m making it a new year resolution to be more proactive about it!  But for today though, my podcast is a little different than normal. In 2006 I visited Vienna for the first time and made a documentary while there. We went to various places like the Mozart House Museum, St. Stephen’s Cathedral and Haus Der Musik and other places besides. Most of this programme was made in the Mozart House where I was given a guided tour.

This programme is, as I said, a little different, more of a documentary than my usual show. I hope you find it interesting.

Click here to download the Vienna Documentary