The Composer Chronicles
The Composer Chronicles is an English-speaking podcast specialized in the field of classical music and opera. As such, The Composer Chronicles is a podcast selected by soclassiq, like YourClassical Daily Download or LA Opera Podcasts: Behind the Curtain and many others. The oldest episode indexed by soclassiq is dated 2020-04-27. Since then, a total of 135 episodes have been recorded and broadcast by The Composer Chronicles.
The Composer Chronicles activity
With 48 articles published in the last 90 days, The Composer Chronicles is currently a quite active podcast. "Quite active" does not mean that The Composer Chronicles is less interesting than another more prolific source or more interesting than a less dynamic source. Each podcast follows a specific editorial line, recording and broadcasting according to its own rhythm.
This editorial activity is slowing down compared to the previous period.
The last episode in The Composer Chronicles, "Ep. 33: Treasure in the Wreckage - Smyth and The Wreckers", is dated 2021-01-13. By 2020, this podcast had published 133 episodes.
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2021-01-13 05:00:00
Duration (h:m:s): 29:33
How far are you willing to go to get you want? Dame Ethel Smyth was determined to get her opera The Wreckers produced the way that she wanted. Although the opera was written in French, she had no luck with being able to premiere the opera on French stages, relying on her contacts in Leipzig to get the opera produce …
2021-01-06 05:00:00
Duration (h:m:s): 25:37
A Requiem, a Catholic Mass of the Dead, is typically written by a composer when someone is dying or in remembrance of someone who has already died; however, Gabriel Fauré wrote his Requiem for no one, altering it to be a Requiem of peace rather than fear. Become a member of The Composer Chronicles on Patreon to get ad-free versions of all …
2020-12-30 05:00:00
Duration (h:m:s): 22:57
In the darkest times, we all need something we can turn to for guidance and peace. During one of the most difficult times of his life, Francis Poulenc turned towards his spirituality and the Roman Catholic church, and he embedded his faith into the opera he was composing at the time, Dialogues des Carmélites. Become a member of The Composer Chronicles on …
2020-12-30 05:00:00
Duration (h:m:s): 23:54
In the darkest times, we all need something we can turn to for guidance and peace. During one of the most difficult times of his life, Francis Poulenc turned towards his spirituality and the Roman Catholic church, and he embedded his faith into the opera he was composing at the time, Dialogues des Carmélites. Become a member of The Composer Chronicles on …
2020-12-30 05:00:00
Duration (h:m:s): 23:31
In the darkest times, we all need something we can turn to for guidance and peace. During one of the most difficult times of his life, Francis Poulenc turned towards his spirituality and the Roman Catholic church, and he embedded his faith into the opera he was composing at the time, Dialogues des Carmélites. Become a member of The Composer Chronicles on …
2020-12-24 05:00:00
Duration (h:m:s): 41:38
This time of year, our ears are filled with the sounds of holiday music on repeat, but do we know where they came from? This Christmas Eve, enjoy the origins and histories of some of the world's most famous Christmas songs and carols, including "Winter Wonderland," "Jingle Bells," "O Tannenbaum," "Silent Night," and "O Holy Night." "Jingle Bells" original chorus …
2020-12-24 05:00:00
Duration (h:m:s): 41:21
This time of year, our ears are filled with the sounds of holiday music on repeat, but do we know where they came from? This Christmas Eve, enjoy the origins and histories of some of the world's most famous Christmas songs and carols, including "Winter Wonderland," "Jingle Bells," "O Tannenbaum," "Silent Night," and "O Holy Night." "Jingle Bells" original chorus …
2020-12-24 05:00:00
Duration (h:m:s): 42:34
This time of year, our ears are filled with the sounds of holiday music on repeat, but do we know where they came from? This Christmas Eve, enjoy the origins and histories of some of the world's most famous Christmas songs and carols, including "Winter Wonderland," "Jingle Bells," "O Tannenbaum," "Silent Night," and "O Holy Night." "Jingle Bells" original chorus …
2020-12-24 05:00:00
Duration (h:m:s): 42:11
This time of year, our ears are filled with the sounds of holiday music on repeat, but do we know where they came from? This Christmas Eve, enjoy the origins and histories of some of the world's most famous Christmas songs and carols, including "Winter Wonderland," "Jingle Bells," "O Tannenbaum," "Silent Night," and "O Holy Night." "Jingle Bells" original chorus …
2020-12-23 05:00:00
Duration (h:m:s): 26:06
Yury Tynyanov’s fictitious adaptation of a non-existent lieutenant who rises through the ranks in the army of a true historical emperor of Russia was brilliantly adapted for film by the Soviet film director Aleksandr Faintsimmer. Today, this film, Lieutenant Kijé, has fallen to the wayside, but composer Sergei Prokofiev’s ingenious score for the film has certainly persisted and remains as …