The Bohemians: Martinů & Janáček
Joanna Lumley & The Maestro
Bauer Media
4.7 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re diving into two bohemian heroes of classical music, Bohuslav Martinů and Leoš Janáček. Stephen remembers encountering the music of Martinů at Cambridge, and being confronted by the "pure simple joy" of it. From the lyricism of Martinů, we work back towards Janáček – another gifted Czech composer – and get to grips with the fairy-tale essence of The Cunning Little Vixen, Sinfonietta and the exultant Glagolitic Mass. Strap in. The Bohemians have arrived.
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| 0:53.4 | Hello, I'm Joanna Lumley. I'm in my garden in London and I'm walking down the garden path to the music room. |
| 1:00.3 | In there, I'll find my husband, the composer and conductor, Stephen Barlow. Now, we've been married almost 40 years and I think however long you've been with someone, you have questions that you'd like to ask your partner. |
| 1:13.1 | So this podcast is my chance to ask Stephen the questions I've always wanted to ask him about one of his and my greatest passions, classical music. |
| 1:32.3 | Welcome to Joanna and the Maestro. |
| 1:35.2 | Hello, Maestro. |
| 1:39.7 | Welcome to this episode of Joanna and the Maestro, |
| 1:43.6 | and I love this because we're returning to unsung heroes, Stevie. |
| 1:48.2 | These, I want to call unsung bohemian composers. |
| 1:51.9 | Who would you pick as an unsung bohemian composer? |
| 1:53.7 | And why are they unsung? |
| 1:54.5 | Okay. |
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| 2:11.8 | commercial music that is available so readily. |
| 2:16.4 | And none of these composers were unknown in their day. |
| 2:21.5 | In this world, we cherry pick. |
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