Love Classical Music Podcast

Ten "Easy Listening" Proms 2025

The Proms is of course the greatest festival of classical music, featuring the world’s leading orchestras, soloists and choirs. In this podcast I highlight 10 “easy listening” concerts from this year’s Proms season which runs from July 18 to September 13. General Booking Opens on May 17.

American Classical Music

This podcast is about American Classical Music which is very much a 20^th century development. American Classical Music is a rich and diverse tradition that blends the country’s historical, cultural, and social changes into a unique musical language.

The Greatest Romantic Classical Music

Wonderful romantic classical from opera, ballet, instrumental and choral. Composers include Beethoven, Prokofiev, Vaughan Williams, Adam, Wagner, Saint-Saens, Puccini, Verdi, Mozart and Giordano.

Affordable Classical Music in London

The good news is you can enjoy classical music in London without spending large amounts of money, especially now given the cost-of-living crisis is affecting so many people – both London residents and visitors. In this podcast I list the London venues offering classical music and I highlight the ways you can enjoy this music inexpensively.

Music For Children

In this podcast I present 20 pieces of classical music which I think will appeal to children, and will hopefully introduce them to the wonderful world of classical music. Each piece tells a story which will make it easy for children to relate to the music This is "grown-up" classical music, not music written specifically for children. Included are orchestral pieces, symphonies, concertos, ballets and opera.

Beethoven - His Life and Music

In this podcast we look at the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, arguably the greatest composer ever. Succeeded despite an unhappy childhood, disastrous love life and many personal problems. And he became deaf from his mid-twenties. An unpleasant man but he composed wonderful symphonies, concertos, choral works, an opera and superb chamber music.

An Introduction to Classical Music

In this podcast we introduce some of the greatest classical music ever composed including symphonies, concertos, choral works and opera. These excerpts are easy to listen to and will hopefully tempt you to access the other podcasts in our series