On this 249th anniversary of the birth of one of our greatest composers, you might want to take a listen to his revolutionary 9th Symphony, which has challenged, haunted and inspired many composers who followed. This performance by Anima Eterna Brugge and the Collgium Vocale Gent, directed by Korneel Bernolet, is with an ensemble that is somewhat like what listeners of Beethoven’s time might have heard—sadly, Ludvig was completely deaf when he wrote and then later conducted this work’s premiere, so these glorious sounds only lived in his mind’s ears. But you, dear listener, can feast upon this mighty music. […]
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Vox Satanae – Episode 400 In this two-part episode Magister Gene is joined by co-host High Priest Peter H. Gilmore. We hear works by Richard Strauss, Béla Bartók, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler, Bernard Herrmann, and Aaron Copland with performances by Christine Goerke, Elza van den Heever, Michaela Schuster, Jay Hunter Morris, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Michelle de Young, Matthias Goerne, The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden, The Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle, The Seattle Symphony, Thomas Dausgaard, The Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Isaiah Jackson, The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and Leonard Slatkin. VOX SATANAE – EPISODE #400 […]
Vox Satanae – Episode 240 – 103 Minutes – Week of 11 May 2015 This week we feature works by Notker Balbulus, The Court of Alfonso X, Gilles Binchois, William Cornysh, Andrea Gabrieli, Orlando Gibbons, Jean-Henri d’Anglebert, and Giuseppe Tartini with performances by Ordo Virtutum, Stefan Morent, Ensemble Unicorn, The Gothic Voices, Christopher Page, The BBC Singers, Andrew Carwood, Symposium Musicum, Miloslav Klement, Timothy Roberts, The Rose Consort of Viols, Andreas Staier, Pierre Amoyal, Susan Moses, and Edoardo Farina. Vox Satanae (The Voice of Satan) presents classical music from its inception through the present in all of its forms. Each […]
Vox Satanae – Episode 212 – The Scherzo – 145 Minutes – Week of 27 October 2014 This is a very special episode curated by our own Magus Peter H. Gilmore. An aural odyssey from joyous celebrations of vital existence to spectral dances of madness. In this journey highlighting the development of the symphonic scherzo, we feature works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonín Dvořák, Sergei Prokofiev, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Jean Sibelius, Aram Khachaturian, Sir Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Aaron Copland, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Bernard Herrmann, Don Gillis, Anton Bruckner, Dmitri Shostakovich, Gustav Mahler, and John Corigliano.