Episode 1: Welcome to Perfect Pitch

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Do you think that classical music is not for you and you don't know where to start? Or maybe you're a fan already and would welcome a fresh approach? You've come to the right place. Perfect pitch is for everyone. Beginners or experts, whatever your age. Lend Nick Hillie Hutchinson, your ears for his weekly dose of classical music that will enrich your life.

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Hello and welcome to the first episode of the Perfect Pitch podcast, which brings you a new approach to classical music. I'm going to plan straight in with you, Han Sebastian Bach, because any introduction to classical music has to start with him and then I'll explain what this podcast is all about. We just listened to an orchestral version of Bart's Hunting Cantata, which he button may safely graze. And if you're new to classical music, I hope you'd admit that that's a rather lovely tune. The very term classical music can kind of drop all sorts of misleading entirely negative associations. You may be one of those people who think that it's just enough for you. It's expensive. It's intimidating. Or that it's going to be too large of you to explore and you don't know whether it's not the positive. I'm not even not about myself. I'm no more than an out of enthusiasts. So any other year, I can't have a different thing. I also have a good data. And also if you like a TVF, you can't stop reading about every kind of food. If you like a good food, and I can go into the outer portal, along with the list too from David, the matter, along the outer cartel, and not open anymore. I can almost guarantee you that there's something you'll like to cast on the expectation, everything that's connected to what takes. I can't see how they didn't take it to the new effect. I often do the same way about reading the code. It's a rate of discovery and experiment. And you can be solder of War and the quantity working out there for you. Is it what it's a model? But the surprise is a metal on the way. And I can tell you that continues to be my experience. You do not have to be an expert to appreciate a vertical music effect. There is no right or wrong way to react to it. It will spark different feelings in order. So don't let anyone tell you that your response to a piece is wrong. I'm here to show you that you can dive in any way you like without any previous knowledge of it. The idea is not just to clunk on a piece of music and tell you what it is, it's to give you a little information as well. A small idea here and there, in the hope that it will add to the enjoyment of what you hear. All of them, be they familiar or new, will be united by a common thread of a good idea. So I hope you might stay with me. You might. And if you're one of those who don't need any persuasion, I hope there may be surprises for you here as well. By way of demonstrating the diving approach, let's go to Francois Hubert, my favorite composer and the greatest dream writer, in my opinion, of all time. Despite very competition for the likes of most of them, Beethoven and Andrew. Hubert's output was last of it found several years after his death in 1828. Some of the 600 songs, among the 70s, music and kind of sort of at all by the age of 31. He's my favorite composer by far for one simple reason. Melody No doubt we could all name plenty of composers and musicians in every field who've come up with a happy reason. With a happy author, melody is essential to all his compositions. And many other times I've called myself just a smart thing. Hubert was a modest and unassuming man. He never married and was something of a learner. But it would be wrong to say that he was sad. Far from it, he was much loved by many and loved a great deal himself too. As he ultimately suggests But maybe it is a life and background that gives us all of his music. And here are a couple of examples of what I mean. The first is a short song with a design under the art of music. The second is one of Schubert's Asian properties of the piano. There's a third one in Jadopo in your tracks. Right on the very first note of an utterly gorgeous tune. The pianist is Alfred Brendel, one of the great Schubert interpreters who once described this as the ultimate expression of love in music. But it's easily done, and I suspect another of those barriers which puts people off for fear of sounding ignorant. I never got to play this, unfortunately, but what a pretty waltz it is. Chopin's Opus 64 number two, play by the legendary, and that's no exaggeration, Arter Rubenstein. The first piece of orchestral music I bought was Beethoven's Parshal Symphony. I then found out that he'd written another eight, so decided to collect a lot without having the first idea of what I was doing. It was a simple curiosity. And all of them I was able to discover, how wonderful. What makes this man the genius that he was? The short answer is that he tore the rule book, and nothing in music was ever the same again. The pastoral is a thing was a first in two regards. Rather than a conventional four movement has a five, and it was the first piece of music which you can describe as a programmatic as I say, a specific attempt to illustrate a music as a story as a whole person. And just in case you're in any doubt about what he's trying to do to describe it, it hasn't very helpfully put as a title on the image of the moment. We're going to listen to the fourth and a moment now. The fourth is marked by thunder and then a storm. And to which it apologized seamlessly. With its clear and likely menacing tension, as it builds into a cloud of thunder, subsides briefly, only to return with even greater strength. And then, in a matter of a minute or so, you can hear it moving away into the distance as the music fades. The clouds apart, the sun comes through, maybe even with a rainbow, the certain one comes to my mind, giving way to this comforting and joyful tune. Ultimately bringing the symphony to its end with a clear affirmation of car. And so here comes well the rainbow and bringing it to the end of the harmonic orchestra conducted by Carl.

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