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That Classical Podcast
Kelly, Sascha and Chris talk to you about classical music whilst making you laugh. AND LEARN. www.ThatClassicalPodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye!
THE END IS NIGH. In fact, it's here. Please do join us for one final round of classical silliness, as we talk about our lives, our classical faves, an...
"Murder Clowns and Boffin Cocktails": Leoncavallo & Bellini
ARE YOU SCARED OF CLOWNS? WELL QUITE FRANKLY YOU MIGHT BE AFTER THIS. Yeeeees gird your loins people, because this episode we're talking murderous ven...
"Music Shanks and Power Suits": Ethel Smyth & Florence Price
HERE COME THE GIRLS - AND P.S. THEY ARE KICKING BUTTS AND TAKING NAMES. Yeaaas in this episode we discuss two more lovely ladies who shaped the classi...
"Brown Notes and Musical TMI": Our Non-Faves
BE HONEST: WHO AMONG US DOESN'T ENJOY A GOOD WHINGE? Yeeeeas in this episode of That Classical Podcast we fulfil a listener-request, and openly compla...
"Festive Prawns and Angel Swarms": Christmas IV
UP-TO-DATE ON YOUR AUSTRALIAN CHRISTMAS TRIVIA? Well you certainly will be after this festive and VERY educational episode of That Classical Podcast....
"Frog Concertos and Highway Anthems": Villa-Lobos & Ginastera
NEED MORE HARMONICA IN YOUR LIFE? WELL, YOU'VE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE. Yes, whether you like it or not, the harmonica makes a very special appearance...
"Werther's Originals and Musical Gold-Panning": Massenet & Poulenc
JUST TAKE IT FROM US - YOU DON'T WANT TO BORROW ANY MEDITATION TIPS FROM MASSENET. Find out why in this extra hot episode of That Classical Podcast, f...
"Fun Uncles and Dog Defenestration": Boccherini & Rameau
DOES YOUR DOG BARK IN TUNE? BETTER DOUBLE-CHECK BEFORE RAMEAU POPS OVER FOR TEA. Yes today we discuss two legendary Baroque composers - one who threw...
That Classical Isolation: Our Current Faves #3
YES WE'VE DONE IT AGAIN. We've plugged-in our mics, boosted our wifi and hidden under our chunkiest sound-absorbent blankets to bring you yet ANOTHER...
That Classical Isolation: Our Current Faves #2
YOU ASKED FOR MORE CLASSICAL ISOLATION BANGERS AND WE OBLIGED. Settle down and/or in for another top-class social distancing sesh, featuring two stunn...
That Classical Isolation: Our Current Faves
RECORDED ACROSS THE WAVELENGTHS OF TIME AND SPACE (AKA LONDON), WE PRESENT A SPECIAL MINI-EPISODE. Yes you guessed it, because we aren't allowed to ne...
"Chambermaid Bazungas and Ghost Smalltalk": Strauss & Strauss
SO MANY STRAUSSES (STRAUSSI?), SO LITTLE TIME. Yessss in this Strauss-centric episode we discuss the life and times of Johann Strauss II and Richard S...
"Hot Samwise and Classical Rasputin": Wagner & Gesualdo
SURE, THESE COMPOSERS ARE LITERALLY THE WORST... BUT THEY DID WRITE SOME BANGING TUNES. Yes, in this episode of That Classical Podcast we reveal the c...
"Young B****** and The Pink Peril": Women Composers Pt. II
THEY CAME, THEY COMPOSED, THEY CONQUERED. Yes, in this INCREDIBLY ladylike episode of That Classical Podcast, we discuss the women who shook-up the cl...
THAT CLASSICAL HANDOVER: New Beginnings
TIMES ARE A-CHANGIN' HERE AT THAT CLASSICAL PODCAST. Find out how, why and who in this freshly-squeezed new episode. Enjoy!
Not enough TCP? Go h...
"Full Wangs and Sister-Wife Wonders": Modern Classical Music III
WHOEVER SAID CLASSICAL MUSIC WAS BORING, WE'VE GOT THREE WORDS FOR YOU: NAKED OPERA SINGERS. This episode, we're re-opening our mysterious box of Mode...
"Foot Tragedies and 'Artistic' Naked Bits": Strozzi & Lully
FOR NEVER WAS A STORY OF MORE WOE... THAN THIS OF STABBING YOUR FOOT WITH A SHARP STICK, FO SHO. Today we discuss two small but wonderful fish in one...
"Infant Body-Builders and Lip Baking": Brass
DOOT DOOOOOT yes we're back with another orchestral watcha-ma-call-it, and today it's BRASS. So sit back, relax, and enjoy a one way ticket to brass-t...
"Exiled Bum-Pinchers and Half-Naughty Monks": CHRISTMAS III
CHRISTMAS WOULDN'T BE CHRISTMAS WITHOUT A TRADITIONAL "BUM-PINCH" [AND AN ILLEGAL MINCE PIE] ... YES it's time once again for our annual festive episo...
"Football Opera and Century-Straddlers": The Romantic Period
BRACE YOURSELVES FOR THE MUSICAL EQUIVALENT OF FIFTY SHADES. Yes that is 100% correct and accurate, because it's time for something Romantic with a ca...
"Opium-Cheese Nightmares and 'Opening-Up' Music": Berlioz & Mendelssohn
DO YOU ENJOY A GENEROUS SLICE OF GOUDA BEFORE BED? If so, you may have something in common with Hector Berlioz, who's life and nightmarish works we'll...
"Blatant Child Favouritism and Eagle-Waving": Copland & Korngold
WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY? YOU'VE FOUND THE CLASSICAL MUSIC EQUIVALENT OF "ISN'T SHE LOVELY"???! FINALLY! Yes it's true, we've literally found it, it's in t...
"Two-Hit Wonders and Prima Donna Fisticuffs": Pachelbel & Handel
OUT OF THE WAY LADS, THE MOST IMPRESSIVELY BORING MAN IN MUSICAL HISTORY IS COMING THROUGH (BUT WE STILL THINK HE'S A BIT OF ALRIGHT). This time on Th...
"Mantelpiece Modesty and Fingerpendence": Chopin & Liszt
EVER FANCIED SOMEONE YOU ALSO THINK IS A BIT MINGING? WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO NOT GET BURIED ALIVE?? SHALL WE COMPARE FINGER-WEBBING??! All these quest...
"Tuneful Farts and The Zoomtube": Woodwind
GIRD YOUR LITERAL AND PROVERBIAL LOINS PEOPLE, 'CAUSE IT'S TIME TO TALK ABOUT SOME TUBES WITH HOLES IN THEM AND ALSO WIND. AND ALSO KENNY G. Yes you h...
"The Catholic Underworld and Economical Plagiarism": Byrd & Monteverdi
CAN A PERSON BE PHYSICALLY ATTRACTED TO AN ANCIENT WOODEN ETCHING? BLINK TWICE IF YES. In this old-skool episode: The Byrd is genuinely the word, we d...
"Patriotic Hamburgers and Bangerception": Elgar & Holst
**SILLY AND RUDE OUTTAKES AT THE END OF THE EPISODE BECAUSE YES OK**
COME ON THEN WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE PLANET? (DO ONE, PLUTO.) This time we ch...
"Cousin Love and Tragic Hammers": Smetana & Mahler
INAPPROPRIATE COUSIN CANOODLING! MASSIVE MYSTERY BOXES!! POP GOES THE WEASEL??! All these quite weird things [and more] await your gorgeous ears and f...
"Swan Barbies and Seductive Whisks": Ballet
IF YOU THINK YOUR KITCHEN IMPLEMENTS HAVE BEEN FLIRTING WITH YOU - STAY TUNED, YOU'RE PROBABLY CORRECT. In this supercalifragilisticexpialidocious new...
"The Medieval Monster Mash and Sad Clouds": Saint-Saëns & Satie
BONJOUR AND TOOT DE LA FRUIT. Mais oui, this time we are discussing not one but TWO French composers who were tres bon at the old musique. Have a nibb...
"Crazy Old Maurice and Rhythm Orgies": Ravel & Gershwin
IT'S JAZZ O'CLOCK OVER HERE AT THAT CLASSICAL PODCAST AND WE'RE NOT SORRY. It's true, today we're giving you the lowdown on two blokes who loved to sp...
"Six-Day-Chords and Carpent Bros": CHRISTMAS II
DING DONG MERRILY ON HI THERE WE HAVE A NEW EPISODE AND IT IS CHRISTMAS-TASTIC. Grab a mince pie and any beverage that may or may not be mulled and jo...
"Tsar BO-GO and Gorbachev's Grammy": Mussorgsky & Prokofiev
"YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD MAKE CLASSICAL MUSIC INFINITELY BETTER? MIKHAIL GORBACHEV." We know you've been thinking this for ages and quite frankly we agree...
"Table Wine and Weenie Bassoonists": Telemann & Bach
WEENIE BASSOONIST, WEENIE BASSOONIST, WHEREFORE ART THOU WEENIE BASSOONIST? If thou dost want to know more, verily direct your earholes to this ginorm...
"Disease Cupboards and Cat Role Play": Paganini & Rossini
A WILD NEW EPISODE APPEARED! YOU USED "LISTEN IMMEDIATELY". IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE!!! Open up that classical music pokédex please because this time we c...
"Gary's Peace Pipe and Grimes GCSE": Coleridge-Taylor & Britten
WHO IS GARY WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT WHERE AM I? All will be revealed in this bombastic episode of That Classical Podcast, in which we talk poetry,...
"Vehement Carp and Surface Borscht": Symphonies
I MEAN FOR THE LOVE OF CTHULHU WHAT EVEN IS A SYMPHONY?! Yeah fair play m8, we haven't actually explained it yet and we've been going on about it for...
"Death Chocolate and Musical Pizza": Purcell & Vivaldi
IF YOU'VE EVER WONDERED HOW A PIZZA CAN BE MADE INTO MUSIC, TODAY'S YOUR LUCKY DAY. Come one, come all, it's time for another dive into the twiddly Ba...
"Water Gits and Beard Pranks": Dvořák & Brahms
WOULD YOU MARRY A GOBLIN? FRANKLY OUR ADVICE IS TO STAY AWAY. For more top tips, why not listen to our brand spanking new episode, in which we discuss...
"Wolfgang Bieber and Skull Burglars": Mozart & Haydn
DOWN YOUR TOOLS. STOP THE PRESSES. CEASE PETTING THAT DOG. YES, IT IS TIME TO TALK ABOUT MOZART. AND HAYDN. We are ginormously excited to bring you th...