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A mix of conversation and music hosted by Andrew Ford. Gregorian chant or hip hop, kd lang or a rookie conductor — all get the rapt attention they deserve.

Airs Saturday and Sunday 11am Repeated: Saturday and Sunday 9pm, Tuesday and Wednesday at 4am.

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Recorders, Fiddles, Clogs and Swords

Duo Windborne are two of Australia’s finest recorder players: Rodney Waterman and Ryan Williams. Their debut album, Venus Bay Fireside Sessions, is a record of their improvisational partnership.

Published: with Andrew Ford

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Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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Benjamin Northey on conducting and community & remembering Clarence 'Frogman' Henry

Benjamin Northey picked up the baton as Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra only a few years after the devastating 2011 earthquake.
A portrait of Clarence in a tweed suit. He has a frog puppet on his shoulder.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

Published: with Andrew Ford

The Music of Remembrance with Jeremy Eichler

Four pieces of music written in the years after World War II – Strauss’s Metamorphosen, Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw, Britten’s War Requiem, and Shostakovich’s 13th Symphony, ‘Babi Yar’  – paint a complicated picture of how European composers…
a black and white sketch of Arnold Schoenberg looking to the viewer, stern, dressed formally but rumpled
Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds

Published: with Andrew Ford

Sam Anning's earthenware and Beethoven's Missa solemnis at 200

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that this program contains the name of someone who has died. Melbourne double bassist Sam Anning’s latest album is dedicated to Archie Roach.
A close-up photo of Sam leaning over and playing his bass.
Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds

Published: with Andrew Ford

Víkingur Ólafsson's infinite variety, and remembering Maurizio Pollini

Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson is most of the way through an international tour that sees him playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations almost a hundred times, including his first ever performances in Australia.
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Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

Published: with Andrew Ford

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