Oct 7

Episode #236 - Real Werewolves?

Stories about human beings transforming into wolves are as old as literature itself. Even the ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh featured a story of a man becoming a wolf. The Werewolf may be one of our most ancient and historically durable monsters. Could Werewolf stories re ... Show More

1h 24m

Sep 30

Bonus Episode - Marble Thieves, Museums, and Dictators

In this bonus episode Sebastian answers questions from listeners about the recent series on the Parthenon Marbles. The host tangles with the ethics of repatriation requests from notorious dictators, the role of the Parthenon Marbles in inspiring the Greek Independence movement, a ... Show More

31m 39s

Sep 23

Episode #235 - Was The Parthenon Robbed? (Part II)

The Parthenon Sculptures have been hugely controversial objects from the moment that they arrived in England. The British public has long been split over the morality of keeping these famous works of art in London. In the early 1800's the famous poet Lord Byron went so far as to ... Show More

1h 28m

Jan 2024

Episode #194- Who Killed Mozart? (Part III)

In 1791 Wolfgang Mozart was one the verge of a comeback. After being the toast of Vienna for half a decade, his music was starting to be considered passé by the late 1780's. A turbulent war between Austria and Turkey and an economic depression only made matters worse. But in 1791 ... Show More

1h 40m

Dec 2023

Episode #192- Who Killed Mozart? (Part I)

There are few artists who are praised with the same level of hyperbole as Wolfgang Mozart. The German poet Franz Alexander von Kleist once said “Mozart's music is so beautiful as to entice angels down to earth.” The famous Russian composer Tchaikovsky declared that Mozart was no ... Show More

1h 8m

Dec 2023

Mozart's 'Requiem' premieres in Vienna

Synopsis Wolfgang Mozart died on Dec. 5, 1791, leaving behind an unfinished Requiem Mass, commissioned anonymously by Count Franz von Walsegg, a 28-year-old Austrian nobleman who had the ignoble habit of passing off works he commissioned as his own. The Requiem was intended to be ... Show More

2 m

Jul 2012

Sonata 1 Mozart K300 1st movement

Our version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Sonata 1 Mozart K300 1st movementblessings,Shiloh Worship Musicwww.shilohworshipmusic.com© 2012 Shiloh Worship Music COPY FREELY;This Recording is copyrighted to prevent misuse, however,permission is granted for non-commercial copying-Rad ... Show More

3m 18s

Jul 2012

Allegro in F -Mozart piano sonata 1 , 3rd movement

Our version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Allegro in F -Mozart piano sonata 1 , 3rd movement Shiloh Worship Musicwww.shilohworshipmusic.com© 2012 Shiloh Worship Music COPY FREELY;This Recording is copyrighted to prevent misuse, however,permission is granted for non-commercial copy ... Show More

5m 43s

Apr 2016

Mozart's Requiem

How Mozart's Requiem, written when he was dying, has touched and changed people's lives. Crime writer Val McDermid recalls how this music helped her after the loss of her father. Hypnotist Athanasios Komianos recounts how the piece took him to the darker side of the spirit world. ... Show More

27m 36s

Dec 2023

Mozart, Salieri and Beethoven in Vienna

Synopsis Oh, to have been in Vienna on today’s date in 1785! Wolfgang Mozart had just finished a new piano concerto a week earlier and quite likely performed it himself for the first time as an intermission feature at a performance of the oratorio Ester, by Karl Ditters von Ditte ... Show More

2 m

Episode #194- Who Killed Mozart? (Part I...