On this week's show we are concentrating on 5 composers who each had Synethesia (when you hear music or words, but you see shapes or colours). So we will have pieces from 5 of the most famous ones namely Ligeti, Sibelius, Messiaen, Liszt and Scriabin. Plus other tracks from old favourites Beethoven, Bach, Vaughan-Williams, Chopin, Wakeman, Einaudi, Strauss The Younger and Elgar.
Come and join me at Midday for two hours of glorious classical choons to ease you into the afternoon only on RevolutionONE.
Thank you for the excellent music and entertainment this afternoon Doc, take a bow Sir.
Take care and enjoy the rest of your day Stephen, I will see you again soon.
Goodbye mate, look after yourself.
Enjoy the rest of your day Ladies and Gentlemen, take care and I will see you all again tomorrow evening.
Goodbye everybody, look after yourselves.
Afternoon all and enjoy the rest of the day. Had a blast on Classical today. Stay safe and see you around the shows.
And the final track :
Next up we have the wonderful Rafe Vaughan-Williams with In The Fen Country. Enjoy fellow classicists.
And the 4th of our Synethesian's we have Sibelius :
UP NEXT Some facts about Franz Liszt : Liszt gained renown in Europe during the early nineteenth century for his prodigious virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was a friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time, including Frédéric Chopin, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg, Ole Bull, Joachim Raff, Mikhail Glinka, and Alexander Borodin.
Some notes about Ligeti : After experimenting with electronic music in Cologne, his breakthrough came with orchestral works such as Atmosphères, for which he used a technique he later dubbed micropolyphony. After writing his "anti-anti-opera" Le Grand Macabre, Ligeti shifted away from chromaticism and towards polyrhythm for his later works.
So now you know. LOL.
Messiaen put the note on the score for this one - "blue-orange chords—the first time he mentions specific colors in one of his scores. He may have been inspired by the phantasmagoric color imagery of the Book of Revelation, but also by seeing the Northern Lights—which he first thought to be hallucinations brought on by hunger and cold during the winter of 1940–1941."
Good morning Doc, I hope you are well and have had a good day so far mate.
Excellent show last night Sir.
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I hope you are all fine and having a good day.
Kicking us off at Midday we will have the 7th Movement of Messiaen's Quartet For The End Of Time - composed in a PoW camp during WWII. One of his quotes in an interview was “I see colors when I hear sounds, but I don’t see colors with my eyes. I see colors intellectually in my head.”
Come and join me for two hours of glorious classical choons to ease you into the afternoon.