Are You a Pacifist?

Noise: sea somewhere... Production: Martin SteinbereithnerRecording: Fritz LoeweMastering: Harry KelevFactchecking: Piroshka KacsaMusic Selection: Jakob Dubi BaerCreative Director: Philip Wolff 

Music: Malpais-Malpais[1]Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hachette UK, 2016).[2]Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi et al., “Flow,” in Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Springer, 2014). Pro ... Show More

How a package can change your life! Production: Martin Steinbereithner Recording: Fritz Loewe Mastering: Harry Kelev Factchecking: Piroshka Kacsa Music Selection: Jakob Dubi Baer Creative Director: Philip Wolff 

Synopsis Two famous pieces of chamber music had their premieres on today’s date, both at private readings prior to their first public performances. On today’s date in 1842, German Romantic composer Robert Schumann arranged for a trial reading of his new Piano Quintet at the Leipz ... Show More

"NEEDS MORE GOBLIN." If you've ever thought this about anything at all, then number 7 is the episode for you. We've got goblin grots, STDs, water bucket deafness and more! You are welcome. Music featured in this episode: "Ave Maria" - Franz Schubert "Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. ... Show More

Synopsis Great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius was born on this date in 1865. In 1990, on Sibelius’ 125th birthday, Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä led the Lahti Symphony in the belated world-premiere of a previously unknown work by the composer, a Suite for Violin and Orchestra tha ... Show More

Feeling stressed? Need to unwind? Then how about some gentle relaxing music for you to ease into. Come and join me as your host, James Quinn as I take you through some wonderful music as I play for you on my own piano ranging from Bach, Mozart, Chopin and more.  In this official ... Show More

In the mid 19th century, the way to make yourself famous in France as a composer was to write operas. From Cherubini, to Meyerbeer, to Bizet, to Berlioz, to Gounod, to Massenet, to Offenbach, to Saint Saens, to foreign composers who wrote specifically for the Paris Opera like Ros ... Show More

Synopsis In 1920, a French publisher commissioned several works in memory of Claude Debussy, who had died two years earlier. Maurice Ravel’s contribution was a single-movement piece for violin and cello. Ravel then expanded this music into a four-movement sonata he titled Duo — p ... Show More