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Tony Robinson's Friendly Guide to Music week 15- The PODCAST

Classic FM — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:00:38 +0000

This week on Tony Robinson’s increasingly Friendly Guide to Music, we’re in the 20th Century, the century when Schoenberg invented a unique method for making music sound awful. We’ve got music from Karl ‘My Moustache will Have Your Eye Out’ Jenkins, Peter ‘Don’t mention the Swan’ Maxwell-Davies, and Arvo ‘Don’t Forget my Umlaut’ Pärt.

It’s a race to the 21st century. Find out who wins in… TONY ROBINSON’S FRIENDLY GUIDE TO MUSIC… on CLASSIC FM.

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Tony Robinson's Friendly Guide to Music WK 14 - The PODCAST

Classic FM — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:46:00 +0000

This week Tony delves into the lives of Stravinsky,Barber,
Rodrigo, Walton, Prokoviev, Shostakovich, Bernstein and Benjamin Britten.

And who said of John Cage’s 4’33” (the worlds first silent piece)...” I look forward to hearing his longer works”?

Find out in this week’s episode of
Tony Robinson’s friendly Guide to music on Classic fm.

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Tony Robinson's Friendly Guide to music WK 13 The podcast

Classic FM — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:45:00 +0000

The romantic period is well and truly over! But now it’s time for modern music and it’s marvellous composers…And what a line up! Debussy,Ravel,Satie,Holst,Delius, Bartok,Schoenberg,Poulenc, Gershwin …And One of Britain’s favourite son’s…Ralph Vaughn Williams.

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Tony Robinson's Friendly Guide to Music on Classic fm. Episode 12. The Podcast.

Classic FM — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:08:05 +0000

This week Tony Robinson asks these questions.

Which sun seeking french genius could play the piano at two and composed his first piece at four?
How did Gabriel Faure’s career get started by a passing blind woman?
For whom or what did the conducter Toscannini, stop the orchestra at the last note, turn to the audience and say…”Here…death triumphed over art.”

Do you want to know the answers?
You can find out by listening to this week’s episode of Tony Robinson’s friendly guide to Music on Classic fm.

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Tony Robinson's friendly Guide to Music on Classic fm Ep 11. The Podcast

Classic FM — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:15:01 +0000

This week, Tony Robinson has everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Wagner.
Plus the lowdown on Gustav Mahler and Finland’s finest… Sibellius and as the powers that be decide to dump him from the twenty pound note…Tony Robinson pays tribute to England’s finest composer…Edward Elgar.

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Tony Robinson's Friendly Guide to Music on Classic fm. The Podcast Ep 10

Classic FM — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:28:44 +0000

This week Tony Robinson get’s to answer these questions.

Who was refused entry to the Milan conservatory because he was too old?
Who left lots of money to a musicians benevolent home which is still going today?
Whose piece of work was labelled Beethoven’s 10th?
Plus, Clara Schumann and Brahms. Did they or didn’t they?
Find out all the answers in this weeks episode of Tony Robinson’s Friendly guide to music on Classic fm.

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Tony Robinson's Friendly Guide to Music on Classic fm Episode 9 - The Podcast

Classic FM — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:44:55 +0000

This week Tony Robinson continues his look at Nationalist composers.
There's Grieg in Norway, Albeniz in spain, Sullivan in England
And a pair of Strauss’s in Austria.
Tony also answers these questions…Who at performances sometimes used to play the piano backwards? Who went to school with Grieg in Leipzig?
And which famous Opera has a leading man called Gerald?
Find out all you need to know in this week’s podcast of Tony Robinson’s Friendly Guide to Music on Classic fm.

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Tony Robinson's Friendly Guide to Music Episode 8 - The Podcast

Classic FM — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:19:00 +0000

This week Tony Robinson looks at the nationalist composers…
There’s the Russians…One time civil servant…Glinka, one time scientist Borodin, one time Army cadet Mussorgsky plus one time sailor Rimsky- Korsakov!
There’s the Czechoslovakians…Smetana and Dvorak.
And, do you know which composer married Glenda Jackson?
No? Find out who did in this week’s podcast of Tony Robinson’s Friendly Guide to Music Episode 8 – The Podcast

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TONY ROBINSON'S FRIENDLY GUIDE WK 7 THE PODCAST

Classic FM — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:11:59 +0100

This week Tony Robinson continues his look at the Romantic period…
From the man who broke all the rules…Felix Mendelssohn, to the man who put the modern concert Piano where it is now-(side on instead of being embedded in the orchestra).
Franz Liszt.
Plus, there’s Bizet,Chopin and Schumann in between…
Tony Robinson’s Friendly Guide to Music on classic fm.

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Tony Robinson's friendly Guide to Music on Classic fm The Podcast

Classic FM — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:48:56 +0100

This week Tony Robinson delves deeper into the Romantic period.
Who could play a whole piece on one string, while having a gremlin sit on his shoulder?
Who said of Wagner “he has lovely moments, but awful quarters of an hour?
And who was the Little Mushroom?
Find out all the answers in this weeks podcast of Tony Robinson’s friendly Guide to Music on Classic fm.

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TONY ROBINSON'S FRIENDLY GUIDE WK 5. THE PODCAST

Classic FM — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:33:14 +0100

This week Tony Robinson covers arguably the greatest 71 years in the history of Classical music…
From 1756, the birth of Mozart. To 1827, the death of Beethoven.
From Mozart’s begging letters and his problem’s writing his Requiem to Beethoven’s deafness and his opinion of Haydn.
All the info you’ll ever want to know about the two giant’s of Classical music are looked at in this weeks special edition of Tony Robinson’s friendly guide to music on Classic fm.

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Tony Robinson's Friendly Guide to music on Classic fm.The Podcast wk 4

Classic FM — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:01:51 +0100

This week Tony enters the golden period which is…
Classical music…And answers these questions.
What are the eight wonders of the Classical world?
Who wins Classical Music’s silliest name competition?
Who are Luigi Butchering and Antonio Slayer?
Find out in this weeks episode of Tony Robinson’s Friendly Guide to music on Classic fm.

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Tony Robinson's Friendly Guide to Music on Classic fm - The Podcast wk 3

Classic FM — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:08:20 +0100

In this weeks episode of Tony Robinson’s friendly guide to Music, Tony answers these questions:

Who was the most prolific composer in all music?
Who locked Vivaldi away in his safe?
What was the most important month in Classical music?
Who smuggled a harpsichord down their trousers?
What have Handel and Slade got in common?
And is Elevazione more than just lift music?

Find out in Tony Robinson’s friendly guide to music on Classic fm.

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Tony Robinson's Friendly Guide to Music on Classic FM-The Podcast

Classic FM — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:42:26 +0100

Tony’s ramble into the entire history of classical music continues with an ear on Baroque music. There’s the angelic fluffy bits of Allegri as well as the arcangelic stringy bits of Corelli; there’s John Paul Thomas and Willie; there’s the man who wrote the theme from It’s a knockout; and the best music ever written for a girls boarding school- it’s not St Trinians. Hopefully by pods end,Tony will feel ready to take on the Jake and Elwood of the baroque -Bach and Handel.

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Tony Robinson's Friendly Guide to Music on Classic FM

Classic FM — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:59:00 +0100

Blackadder’s finest TONY ROBINSON embarks on the first of his Friendly Guides to Music. In this launch edition, Tony looks at where it all began : from the earliest signs of musical life right through to the end of the Early bit. He’s looking at the the Singing Nun, the first “jobshare” in music, “John” from Palestrina and the whole race to write the first ever opera. Take other series on music into the bathroom? Not me. I just “click and go” with TONY ROBINSON’s ravishing ramble, the Friendly Guide to Music on CLASSIC FM. All you need to know about classical music – in one easy-to-use, cut-out-and-keep little POD.

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