The first thing to say is… All you need are ears. No expertise is necessary. If you’ve ever been even slightly curious about classical music… then this is the podcast for you.
If you enjoy any music at all then I’m convinced you can enjoy classical music. You don’t have to… and you don’t need to… but there really is some amazing music just waiting for you to discover or to rediscover!
Each episode will be focused on a particular theme. It might be an instrument. It could be a composer, a country, a city, a performer or any one of a hundred ways to connect an hour of incredible music.
There’s a way to present classical music that doesn’t make the listener feel like an uninvited guest at a dinner party. I think you can enjoy this music in the simplest and most direct, unmediated ways without the nervous sense of inadequacy that bad music appreciation teachers and some radio broadcasters seem to trigger.
Each episode will include some background, maybe a bit about the composer, maybe something about the performers... but the rest… the rest will just be music. Really good music.
Like any great human expression, classical music can bring enormous pleasure. It can impact your mood… accompany you in joy, support you in sadness, transport you from the mundane, it can challenge your understanding of what it is to be alive… or just give you something very nice to hum. There really is something for Everyone.
About Peter Cudlipp - Creator & Host of Classical For Everyone
I’ve loved classical music for as long as I can remember and that passion led to a radio show called, not surprisingly, ‘Classical For Everyone’. I wanted to bring the perspective of an enthusiast to the introduction of classical music to audiences that might be curious but perhaps a little hesitant.
I’m not a teacher or a critic and I’m certainly not a musician… just a regular concert-goer who is lucky enough to have been touched, moved, excited and uplifted by this music since he was a kid. And now with the podcast I’m after a bit of a bigger audience.
For many years I worked in film, television and theatre and at the same time had ongoing pro bono relationships with music and performance organisations. As a young person I collected way too many LPs. Three decades ago they were regrettably given away. Since then I've collected way too many CDs. And I'm still collecting. I had a feeling they might come in handy one day.
Finally, if Classical For Everyone has a slight bias toward Australian, New Zealand and American music, it's because they are the three countries where I've spent most of my time.