1antimuzak
Monday 17th February 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:30 to 22:00 (30 minutes long)
Ludwig van Beethoven: The Battle for Joy. Episode 1.
The human drama behind some of the most extraordinary classical music ever written - told by actors including Toby Jones, Maxine Peake, Andrew Lincoln and Don Warrington. In this opening episode, Dominic West tells the tumultuous story of how Beethoven overcame personal struggles and creative despair to craft his joyful, life-affirming opera 'Fidelio. Featuring contributions from fine artist and conservationist Sophie Green, and Dr Tara Quinn-Cirillo, clinical psychologist and podcaster.
(New Series, Episode 1)
Time: 21:30 to 22:00 (30 minutes long)
Ludwig van Beethoven: The Battle for Joy. Episode 1.
The human drama behind some of the most extraordinary classical music ever written - told by actors including Toby Jones, Maxine Peake, Andrew Lincoln and Don Warrington. In this opening episode, Dominic West tells the tumultuous story of how Beethoven overcame personal struggles and creative despair to craft his joyful, life-affirming opera 'Fidelio. Featuring contributions from fine artist and conservationist Sophie Green, and Dr Tara Quinn-Cirillo, clinical psychologist and podcaster.
(New Series, Episode 1)
2antimuzak
Wednesday 19th February 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:30 to 22:00 (30 minutes long)
Florence Price: Power and Pride. Episode 3.
Nina Sosanya explores how composer Florence Price overcame prejudice to proudly forefront her identity as an African-American woman in her music. Featuring contributions from opera singer Janine De Bique, author Kelly McWilliams and psychologist Dr Roberta Babb.
(Episode 3)
Time: 21:30 to 22:00 (30 minutes long)
Florence Price: Power and Pride. Episode 3.
Nina Sosanya explores how composer Florence Price overcame prejudice to proudly forefront her identity as an African-American woman in her music. Featuring contributions from opera singer Janine De Bique, author Kelly McWilliams and psychologist Dr Roberta Babb.
(Episode 3)
3antimuzak
Monday 24th February 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:30 to 22:00 (30 minutes long)
Jean Sibelius: Rage Against the Machine. Episode 6.
Toby Jones tells how an act of creative destruction freed Sibelius - Finland's most celebrated artist - from decades of torment, as he tried to finish his doomed Eighth Symphony. Even in his lifetime, Sibelius was considered Finland's greatest artist and national hero: the Finnish nation's musical Shakespeare. The late 1920s saw the composer seemingly at the peak of his powers - in his early sixties, and with seven celebrated symphonies to his name, the entire Finnish nation waited with bated breath for a glorious Eighth - and more. Yet he suddenly fell silent, crushed under a weight of expectation - one that would only be released years later in a dramatic, rageful episode of creative destruction, as he fed his masterpiece into the flames of his fireplace... never to be heard. Featuring contributions from dancer Baroness Deborah Bull and psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos.
(Episode 6)
Time: 21:30 to 22:00 (30 minutes long)
Jean Sibelius: Rage Against the Machine. Episode 6.
Toby Jones tells how an act of creative destruction freed Sibelius - Finland's most celebrated artist - from decades of torment, as he tried to finish his doomed Eighth Symphony. Even in his lifetime, Sibelius was considered Finland's greatest artist and national hero: the Finnish nation's musical Shakespeare. The late 1920s saw the composer seemingly at the peak of his powers - in his early sixties, and with seven celebrated symphonies to his name, the entire Finnish nation waited with bated breath for a glorious Eighth - and more. Yet he suddenly fell silent, crushed under a weight of expectation - one that would only be released years later in a dramatic, rageful episode of creative destruction, as he fed his masterpiece into the flames of his fireplace... never to be heard. Featuring contributions from dancer Baroness Deborah Bull and psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos.
(Episode 6)
4antimuzak
Wednesday 26th February 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:30 to 22:00 (30 minutes long)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Lust for Life. Episode 8.
Andrew Lincoln tells the story of how Mozart's passionate love (and lust) for his future wife drove him to escape the clutches of boyhood expectation - and his controlling father. Throwing off the suffocating influences of both his father and his rich patron, Mozart gambled his entire reputation to live life on his own terms, pouring his love, lust and new-found freedom into an extraordinary opera. With contributions from psychotherapist Julia Samuel, and poet and author Owen Sheers.
Time: 21:30 to 22:00 (30 minutes long)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Lust for Life. Episode 8.
Andrew Lincoln tells the story of how Mozart's passionate love (and lust) for his future wife drove him to escape the clutches of boyhood expectation - and his controlling father. Throwing off the suffocating influences of both his father and his rich patron, Mozart gambled his entire reputation to live life on his own terms, pouring his love, lust and new-found freedom into an extraordinary opera. With contributions from psychotherapist Julia Samuel, and poet and author Owen Sheers.
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