Classical For Everyone

Recent Episodes

Sept. 25, 2025

Highlights and Favourites.. Music That Stayed With Me

Wondering if I could produce an episode without my AI pal Claude and I going down too many rabbit holes… I thought I’d see what I could come up with if I revisited past episodes and cherry-picked some favourite pieces. To be ...
Sept. 23, 2025

Glenn Gould - Part 2 – The 1981 ‘Goldberg Variations’ Recording

Johann Sebastian Bach’s‘ The Goldberg Variations’ was the only work that Glenn Gould recorded twice. Now, he died only about a year after this recording so it’s not possible to say that he would not have re-recorded other wor...
Sept. 21, 2025

Glenn Gould - Part 1 – An introduction and an overview.

This is the first episode of ‘Classical For Everyone’ devoted to just one musician so I better have some good reasons… apart from just a personal affection for his recordings. In the English speaking world, the Canadian Glenn...
Sept. 11, 2025

Astronomy… and a little bit of astrology

Music that takes its inspiration from humanity’s gaze out into the cosmos and from our attempts to reach beyond this fragile planet we call home. And to access some music that predated the quite modern science of ‘astronomy’ ...