Episode 17 - Superhuman Virtuosity
‘Piano Concerto no. 2’ by Sergei Rachmaninoff is a vehicle for virtuosic performance. It requires the pianist to display superhuman levels o...
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A Thousand Pictures ... of Classical Music
‘A picture speaks a thousand words, but music speaks a thousand pictures’. Hosted by the Australian conductor Scott Wilson, the A Thousand Pictures podcast is an introduction to classical mu...
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18 episodesEpisode 16 - A Journey of Conviction
‘Symphony no. 1’ by Johannes Brahms has one of the most magnificent endings in all music. The piece itself is a journey of conviction, and w...
Episode 15 - The Games of a Genius
‘Symphony no. 41’ by Mozart is a display of compositional prowess. Mozart’s playing games in the music: his brilliant musical mind composes...
Episode 14 - Once Upon A Time...
‘The Moldau’ by Bedřich Smetana is a wonderfully picturesque piece describing a journey down one of Europe’s most magnificent rivers. And ev...
Episode 13 - Death Dance
‘The Rite of Spring’ by Igor Stravinsky is the piece that jolted classical music into the Twentieth Century. It’s a ballet and its central t...
Episode 12 - Creating A Universe
‘Symphony no. 2’ by Gustav Mahler is a piece for an enormous orchestra with a choir, and it features one of the greatest endings in all musi...
Episode 11 - Star Wars!
‘Star Wars’ by John Williams is some of the best music ever written. Even those who’ve never seen the films instantly recognise it. In this...
Episode 10 - Achieving A Symphony
‘Symphony no. 1’ by Brahms is a piece that’s a favourite amongst musicians, and it may even be the piece I love most. But, composing it was...
Episode 9 - Alone, Searching...
The ‘Cello Concerto’ by Elgar is the most famous piece for solo cello accompanied by an orchestra. The beautiful, rich sound of the cello is...
Episode 8 - What Might Have Been
The piece ‘Of A Sad Evening’ by the composer Lili Boulanger is harrowing. Its desolate atmosphere conveys the tragedy of its composer’s life...
Episode 7 - Inside the Storm
In the ‘Four Sea Interludes’ by Benjamin Britten you’re standing on the cliffs of the English Channel and a storm is raging around you. Wave...
Episode 6 - This Feels Good!
‘Candide Overture’ by Leonard Bernstein is a fantastic piece. Fun for the listener and virtuosic for the orchestra, it bursts with energy an...
Episode 5 - The March of a King
‘Symphony no. 7’ by Beethoven is considered to be a masterpiece. And wonderfully, its solemn march was chosen as the music for the climactic...
Episode 4 - A Magical Melody
The ‘Piano Concerto in G’ by Maurice Ravel is so astonishingly beautiful that time can appear to become suspended for a listener. The melody...
Episode 3 - Emotions Through Sound
‘Symphony no. 10’ by Dmitri Shostakovich has a rawness that strikes straight at the core of the listener. It’s full of intense emotion fuell...
Episode 2 - Celebrating Beautiful Sounds
‘La Mer’ (French for ‘The Sea’) is one of the most evocative pieces ever composed. The composer Claude Debussy conjures up images and sensat...
Episode 1 - Spectacular Sound
The ‘Pines of Rome’ by Ottorino Respighi is a favourite piece of mine, featuring a huge orchestra building from nothing to one of the most c...
Trailer - A Thousand Pictures
Hi! My name’s Scott Wilson. I’m a conductor and in the A Thousand Pictures podcast I’m going to share my passion for classical music with yo...
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