"Sword Fights and Magic Cake": Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninoff

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4.8 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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YES THAT'S RIGHT we have RETURNED with another darntootlingly informative episode of That Classical Podcast. The 60-second bios are back with a vengeance, and this time it's all about Russians and also about sensual frappuccinos and asparagus. More on that later. Enjoy! Music featured in this episode: "String Sextet in D Minor Op. 70: Souvenirs de Florence" - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky "Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a: Arabian Dance (Coffee)" Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Variations)" - Sergei Rachmaninoff "Vespers op.37/5: Nyne Otpushchaeshi" - Sergei Rachmaninoff ***Follow us on Twitter (@thatclassical) and on Instagram (@thatclassicalinsta) for some top notch social media entertainment. We promise it won't just be jokes about Mozart. N.B. we can make no promises it won't just be jokes about Mozart.***

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 4 of that classical podcast.
0:08.0	This week Chikovsky and Rachmaninov.
0:12.0	Hello! Hello! I'm planning off.
0:14.0	Hello! Hello!
0:15.0	Welcome to episode four of that classical podcast.
0:17.0	Episode four, I can't believe it.
0:19.0	I'm very excited.
0:20.0	So sorry we missed the week you guys.
0:21.0	Kelly was ill.
0:22.0	It's my fault my tonsils
0:24.3	Well, and yeah sorry about that, but we're here now. We're back. We're back in action and this week we're gonna be talking about mess Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky.
0:34.2	So somewhat bizarrely, these are two sort of titans of the romantic period of classical music.
0:40.1	And just in, giants, and just in chatting about them, we realize that even though they're both
0:44.8	super famous neither of us knew anything about one of them and lots and lots about
0:49.5	the other so we're gonna take this episode to be informative not only to you guys but to each other we're going to take this episode to be informative not only to you guys, but to each other we're going to we're going to teach each other
0:57.1	Sharing is truly caring absolutely so in that spirit do you want to start off both sharing and caring?
1:03.6	I would love to do both of those things.
1:05.7	Talk to me about Mr Ticosti.
1:07.6	If you guys remember, we said that whenever we did an episode on two composers,
1:11.9	we were going to try and give you some background into their lives
1:15.6	within 60 seconds. It's time for another insanely stressful 60 second run down.
1:20.8	Like a little jingle, shouldn't we like,
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