From 1946 to 1986 the Cambridge Summer School of Music was one of the nations most important arts events. Composers, students, musicians, music teachers and interested amateurs gathered at St Peters College just outside of Cambridge for a week of musical immersion. On a hot and humid Waipa day in January 1947 photographer Kathleen Reardon snapped a group of young composers sitting on the steps to the main building - Ronald Tremain, Edwin Carr, Carraigh Thompson, Ronald Dellow, Larry Pruden and Dorthea Franchi. Curiosity piqued, I wanted to know more about those young composers so this episode will be exploring something of their lives and music and keeping true to the spirit of the photo, I’ve endeavoured to find recordings of works composed closest to that time. John Rimmer - Clouds over Pirongia The NZSO performs Ronald Tremain - Symphony for Strings The NZSO performs Larry Pruden - Harbour Nocturne for Orchestra The Queensland Symphony performs Edwin Carr - Mardi Gras Overture Ronald Dellow - Three Studies for Recorder The NZBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dorothea Franchi performs Dorothea Franchi - Do-Wack-A-Do Suite for Orchestra.

This week, kick back, shut your eyes and let the music carry you away. Xuefei Yang performs Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. Caroline Shaw - The Mona Lisa, from the Ken Burns film Leonardo da Vinci (Original Score) Arnold Bax ~ Elegiac Trio The Chamber Choir of Europe performs Brahms - Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, Op. 29 Seong-Jin Cho performs Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte 6:28 Sabine Devieilhe performs George Frideric Handel - Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17, Act III: Piangerò la sorte mia The Tenebrae Choir performs Paul Mealor - Ubi Caritas David Bedford - Sun Paints Rainbows on the Vast Waves

This week its all about the classical guitar and we’ll be visiting with virtuoso guitarists from Croatia, Portugal, Brazil, Spain, Aotearoa NZ, New York, Ukraine, Australia, Russia and China. rina Kulikova performs Konstantin Vassiliev - 3 Lyric Pieces: No.1: Elegie in memoriam Sergey Rachmaninov From his album Van Gough Fire - Marko Topchii performs Antonio Ruiz-Pipó -Canción y Danza No. 1 Philip Norman - Inception for Infinity for Solo Guitar and String Orchestra Aleksandr Tsiboulski performs Peter Sculthorpe - From Kakadu: 1. Grave Matthew Marshall performs Michael Calvert’s Gaston in Love from the album Rhapsody on a Riff Carlos Paredes - Canção Verde Anos (The Green Years Song) Xuefei Yang performs Mark Houghton - Dance of the Orient Ana Vidovic performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s - Lute Partita in E Major, BWV 1006a (arr. W. Despalj) : I. Preludio Andrés Segovia performs Francisco Tárrega - Recuerdos de la Alhambra Julian Bream and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by André Previn - Heitor Villa-Lobos: Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra

No big themes this week, just a selection of the interesting and unusual from all around the world with a focus on Chickasaw composer Jerod Tate’s Fire and Light, a work that explores Chickasaw identity and culture (The Chickasaw are indigenous to the South Western regions of the USA). Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate - Lowak Shoppala', Act I: I. Fire and Light. Phillip Martin performs Edward MacDowell - Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: I. To a Wild Rose Dubravka Srebotnjak performs Christian Sinding - Rustle of Spring Op. 32 No. 3 The Canby Singers perform Claudio Monteverdi - Zefiro Torna Takashi Yoshimatsu - Symphony No. 1, Op. 40 "Kamui-Chikap Symphony": V. Rainbow Bella Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances for Orchestra Meredith Monk - Book of Days: Early Melody Miriam Margolyes performs Francis Poulenc -The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant: I. The Story of Babar ZOFO Piano Duet perform David Lang - Gravity Jerod Tate - Lowak Shoppala', Act I: III. Shell Shaker

My exploration of Music Inspired by Science Fiction is almost over with one more episode to come. Lost in space, strange alien phenomenon and nuclear armageddon, this episode is mostly about the existential crisis. Then there’s Ursula Le Guin and Elinor Armer’s ‘Season of Oling’ from their 2 CD set ‘Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts’ and Essa Pekka Salonen’s Floof, joyous works which are the exact opposite of everything else featured in the episode. Meredith Monk and Ping Chong - The Games: Movement 3 - Migration Tod Dockstader - Quatermass Movement 2: Tango Ursula Le Guin and Elinor Armer - Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts: The Seasons of Oling Esa-Pekka Salonen - Floof (Songs of a Homeostatic Homer) Karl-Birger Blomdahl - Aniara, An Epic of Spaceflight in 2038 AD: The Yurg, The Mimarobe (also known as Aniara: A Revue of Man in Time and Space) Michael Obst - Crystal World: Part I

Episode 121 visits the year 1962. Usually in these sorts of episodes I stick to works published in the given year - for this episode I’ve widened the parameters to include album releases and music events. Sergio Franchi performs Ungrateful Heart on The Ed Sullivan Show Igor Stravinsky - Movements For Piano And Orchestra Ravi Shanker - Improvisation on the Theme Music from Pather Panchali The Canby Singers perform Elliot Carter’s - Musicians Wrestle Everywhere Benjamin Britten - Let Us Sleep Now In Paradisum, movement 6 from War Requiem La Monte Young - The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer Aaron Copland - Connotations for Orchestra

This weeks it’s leftovers, music I’d selected for previous episodes and ran out of time to play. It’s an eclectic mix that takes us from the contemporary through to the medieval. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa performs Vissi d’arte from Act 2 of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca. Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo performs Missy Mazzoli – A Thousand Tongues. Jeremy Denk plays Doulz amis by Guillaume de Machaut. The NZ String Quartet performs Long Zhou - Song of the Ch’in. Luciano Pavarotti performs Mamma, quel vino è generoso from Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana. VOCES8 performs Ola Gjeilo’s Northern Lights Robert Wyatt performs John Cage - Experiences No 2 Bernard Herrmann on Film Music Simon Ghraichy performs Arturo Márquez: Danzón’s No. 2 Kiri Te Kanawa performs Franz Liszt - Oh, quand je dors

Part 2 - Music Inspired by Science Fiction The centrepiece of Part 2 of Music Inspired by Science Fiction is David Bedford’s City and the Stars Cantata, a work inspired by Arthur C Clarke’s 1956 novel of the same name. There’s more from sci-fi icon Ursula Le Guin and an aria from Voyagers, a sci-fi themed opera by Philip Glass. And yes, there’s more Sci-Fi Classical to come. 1. Ursula Le Guin and Todd Barton – Dragonfly Song from Music and Poetry of the Kesh. 2. Philip Glass talks about his operatic adaptation of Doris Lessing’s novel The Making of the Representative from Planet 9 3. Mari Morya and the MDR Radio Choir perform Philip Glass - The Voyage: Act 1 Scene 3 - In My Secret Heart 4. David Bedford - The City and the Stars Cantata featuring Arthur C Clarke A radio show and podcast created and first aired at Free FM 89.0, a member of the Community Access Media Alliance Aotearoa/New Zealand. Supported by NZ on Air. freefm.org.nz and @freefm89 on Facebook and Instagram

Classical Music inspired by science fiction is one of classical musics most obscure sub-genres and over the last few weeks I’ve been compiling a list works that I hope will offer new light on this hidden corner of art music. Ursula Le Guin and David Bedford - Funeral Procession from the “Space Opera” Rigel 9 Tod Machover - Valis, Pt. 1: We Appear to be Memory Coils Tod Machover - Valis, Pt. 1: You Know, I Have These Dreams of a Strange Place Tod Machover - Death and the Powers, Part 1: Simon and the System Jerry Goldsmith - Christus Apollo: Part III Ralph Lundsten - Alpha Ralpha Boulevard David Bedford - An Extract From 'Star's End’ Peter Pears performs David Bedford - The Tentacles of the Dark Nebula A radio show and podcast created and first aired at Free FM 89.0, a member of the Community Access Media Alliance Aotearoa/New Zealand. Supported by NZ on Air. freefm.org.nz and @freefm89 on Facebook and Instagram

Episode 117 picks up where we left off in episode 116, in search of the seldom heard music of South America. Much of the music in the episode dates from the mid-20th century and follows a pattern we find in North America, Australia, and Aotearoa NZ, composers seeking to blend the physical and cultural landscapes of their homelands with inherited European musical traditions. Anna Moffo performs Heitor Villa-Lobos - Brazilian Bachianas No. 5: Aria Jason Vieaux performs Julian Orbon - Danza Carlos Chavez - Xochipili (Imagined Aztec Music) Leo Brouwer - One Day in November Alberto Ginastera - Bomarzo, Op. 34: Act II: Scene 12: Song to the Minotaur. Alberto Ginastera - Bomarzo, Op. 34: Act II: Scene 12: Second Strophe of Song Clara Rodriguez performs Teresa Carreño - Basket of Flowers John Williams performs Agustin Barrios - La Cathedral Antonio Estevez - Noon on the Prairie Adam Kent performs Tania Leon - Homenatge

Episode 116 of the The Joy of Classical Music finds us strolling through rarely explored territories of South American music in search of the interesting and unusual. Gilberto Mendes - Motet in D minor Drink Coca-Cola Gilberto Mendes – Santos Football Music Cláudio Santoro - Ponteio Silvestre Revueltas - Sensemayá Alberto Ginastera: Five Popular Argentine Songs Tania Leon - In Motion: 5th Movement - Understanding Astor Piazzolla - Maria de Buenos Aires: Ballad for a Crazy Barrel Organ

I finished last week's episode by saying that next week's episode would have no grand themes, just a collection of bits and bobs, music for music's sake. As it turns out, it’s another themed episode, The Art of the Voice. There’s bass singers, tenors, countertenors, sopranos, contralto’s baritones and a choir. And there’s a very special guest, Terry Huggins, a basso profundo from Geraldine. Cleo Laine and the Nash Ensemble performing Drunk with Moon Light from Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot in the Moonlight Terry Huggins performs Jacques Ibert - La Chanson de la mort de Gemma Bertagnolli performs Ottorino Respighi - Musica in horto Philippe Jaroussky performs Francesco Cavalli – Ombra mai fu Enrico Caruso performs Gaetano Donizetti - A Furtive Tear Feodor Chaliapin - Song of the Volga Boatmen Lina Mkrtchyan performs Mikhail Glinka - A Farewell to Saint Petersburg: No. 10, The Lark Cleo Laine and the Nash Ensemble perform The Sick Moon from Pierrot Lunaire Dmitri Hvorostovsky performs Tolstyakov - Come To Me, All You Who Labour Jessye Norman performs Eric Satie - Je te veux. Terry Huggins performs Anton Rubinstein’s The Turbulent Waters of Kur. Choir of Claire College Cambridge perform Imogen Holst’s Welcome Joy and Sorrow Terry Huggins performs Beethoven’s In this Dark Tomb Marian Anderson - Deep River

Episode 114 examines something of the profundity many of us feel when we look up at the night sky and lock gaze with the blazing eyes of a billion stars. Eric Whitacre - Deep Field: 4 - Earth Choir Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony: II. On the Beach at Night, Alone Henry Dutilleux - Timbres, Espace, Mouvement (Starry Night): 1. Nebula David Bedford - Some Stars beyond Magnitude 2,9 Joaquin Rodrigo - In Search of What Lies Beyond Olivier Messiaen - From the Canyons to the Stars: 3 - What is Written in the Stars Olivier Messiaen - From the Canyons to the Stars: 6 - Interstellar Call

Musicologist Anna Andrushkevich: “Schnittke’s world puts the person who wishes to enter it to the test and does not admit everyone. But once one has understood this music, once one has submitted to its aim, it is impossible to return to one’s previous point of equilibrium.” Alfred Schnittke - The Glass Harmonica Suite: I. The Musician and the Carillon Alfred Schnittke - Faust Cantata: VI. False Consolation Alfred Schnittke - Concerto for Mixed Chorus: IV. This Work I Begin With Hope Alfred Schnittke - Life with an Idiot : Tango Alfred Schnittke - (Not) a Midsummer Night's Dream Alfred Schnittke - Declaration of Love Alfred Schnittke - The Faust Cantata: Be Sober and Watch Alfred Schnittke - Concerto for Piano and Strings

Episode 112 of the Joy of Classical Music revisits Episode 77, The Music of Ideology, Imperialism, Politics, Protest and Agitation and in part 2 we continue exploring a style of music designed to inflame our senses and arouse our passions. Hayley Westenra - God Defend New Zealand Risen from the Ruins - The National Anthem of East Germany Hans Eisler and Bertolt Brecht - The Solidarity Song Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5, 1V Movement Giuseppe Verdi - Nabucco, Act III: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves Undine Smith Moore - Before I'd be a Slave Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man Spyridon Samaras - The Olympic Hymn Hubert Parry - Jerusalem Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture

Film scores have been a regular feature on this podcast since day one and with todays episode I’ve decided to explore the film music I usually leave out because well, very little of it is classical, though much of it was written by classically trained composers. Gene Wilder performs - Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse - Pure Imagination Anthony Newley Leslie Bricusse - Oompa-Loompa Doompa-Dee-Do Percy Faith performs Max Steiner - Theme from a Summer Place Miklos Rozsa - Dementia Miklos Rozsa - The Time Machine Waltz Tommy Reilly performs John Barry’s Harmonica Theme. Alexander Courage - Where No Man Has Gone Before The Danish National Symphony Orchestra performs - Ennio Morricone - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Ferrante & Teicher perform Maurice Jarre’s Theme From Lawrence Of Arabia The Ray Conniff Singers perform Maurice Jarre - Somewhere, My Love Takanobu Saito - Theme from Tokyo Story Henry Mancini’s arrangement of Nina Rota’s theme from Romeo and Juliet - A Time for Us Nino Rota - Theme from Fellini’s 8 and a Half Anton Karas - The Third Man Theme Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer - Moon River

The previous episode started out as Four Australian Women but ended up as three because I ran out of space for number four, composer, pianist, teacher and poet Miriam Hyde. In Episode 110 we catch up with Miriam along with a number of other composers whose music I’d selected for previous episodes but had to leave out because of time. Miriam Hyde - Five Solos for Flute and Piano: Beside the Stream Miriam Hyde performs The Fountain on Sunday Afternoon with Peter Ross ABC Australia (1991) Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor. Mikhail Matyushin - Victory over the Sun Leonard Mark Lewis - Warm Summer Sun The Kronos Quartet performs Terry Riley - Sun Rings: One Earth, One People, One Love Jeremy Denk and Stephan Jackiw - Ives' Violin Sonata No. 2: II. In the Barn Heitor Villa-Lobos - String Quartet No. 12: 1 George Antheil – Symphony No. 5 Joyous: 1

Episode 109 of The Joy of Classical Music explores the music of three Australian Women: Dulcie Holland, Peggy Glanville Hicks and Anne Boyd. Jeanell Carrigan performs Dulcie Holland - Nocturne The Chamber Choir Kammerchor Stuttgart performs Anne Boyd - As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra performs Peggy Glanville-Hicks - Sinfonia da Pacifica Anne Boyd - Goldfish Through Summer Rain Ronan Apcar performs Dulce Holland - Sonata for Piano A radio show and podcast created and first aired at Free FM 89.0, a member of the Community Access Media Alliance Aotearoa/New Zealand. Supported by NZ on Air. freefm.org.nz and @freefm89 on Facebook and Instagram

Episode 108 of The Joy of Classical Music is a special extra long edition dedicated to Cambridge born composer David Farquhar, and by Cambridge, I mean Cambridge NZ, the cultural and sporting epicentre of the bucolic Waipa District. In this episode we explore David’s life and work with a special emphasis on 1964’s Cambridge Ode, a work commissioned to celebrate the towns centenary. David Farquhar - Tom, he was a piper's son & Lavender's blue David Farquhar - Ode For Piano performed by Georgina Zellan- Smith The Auckland Youth Orchestra performs David Farquhar - Harlequin Overture Pianist Jian Liu and violinist Martin Riseley perform David Farquhar’s Ring around the Moon The Concord Brass performs David Farquhar - Homage to Stravinsky for Brass Quintet Gunter Herbig performs David Farquhar - Prospero Dreaming David Farquhar - Third Symphony: Remembered Songs The Alex Lindsay Orchestra performs David Farquhar - Ring Around the Moon

Episode 107 of The Joy of Classical Music is a celebration of all things Aotearoa NZ and besides some joyous and uplifting music, there’s a bit of nostalgia as well. John Clark - We Don’t Know Lucky We Are Jenny McCloud - A & P Show, the 3rd Movement from 1986 orchestral suite Celebrations The Tower Voices NZ performs David Hamiltons - Lux Aeterna. Ron Goodwin conducts the NZ Symphony Orchestra - Aotearoa (Land of the Long White Cloud) from his NZ Suite. Douglas Lilburn - Aotearoa David Farquhar – Ring Round the Moon Ron Goodwin and the NZ Symphony Orchestra - Milford Sound from his NZ Suite Henry Wong Doe performs Victoria Kelly - Goodnight Kiwi Kiri Te Kanawa - Hine e Hine