You may not have heard of Werner Ehrhardt, but if you’ve spent any time with early music, you’ve probably heard his work. In this first instalment, the founder and leader of Concerto Köln and L’arte del mondo joins Jens and Joe to reflect on half a century of recording rare and early repertoire — and on how to discover music that has yet to be discovered.

0:20   Introduction
1:11   Introducing our guest – Werner Ehrhardt
3:09   Cologne 1985 – A Mecca for Old Music
5:57   Antonio Salieri – La Scuola de’ gelosi
9:16   Why Salieri?
11:38  The Grove Dictionary and the French Revolution
13:26  Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf – La Prise de la Bastille
14:22  Joseph Martin Kraus – the “Swedish Mozart”
18:06  Francesco Durante – Vivaldi vs. Musica Napoletana
21:14  Jan Ladislav Dussek – the Beethoven contemporary
23:15  The Carneval Oriental project
25:45  Israel in Egypt – an oratorio of three world religions
29:05  Conclusion

C10280  La Prise de la Bastille
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C10430  Joseph Martin Kraus – Symphonies
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C10371  Francesco Durante – Concerti Nos. 1–6
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C10444  Jan Ladislav Dussek – Piano Concertos
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C5263  Carneval Oriental
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C5151  Israel in Egypt
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• Concerto Köln — https://www.concerto-koeln.de/

• L’arte del mondo — https://www.lartedelmondo.de/en/termine

• Werner Ehrhardt — https://www.lartedelmondo.de/en/werner-ehrhardt

Antonio Salieri - Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf - Joseph Martin Kraus - Francesco Durante - Jan Ladislav Dussek - George Frideric Handel - Joseph Haydn - Antonio Vivaldi - Musica Antiqua - Reinhard Goebel - Collegium Aureum - Cappella Coloniensis

With:
Werner Ehrhardt (conductor), Jens F. Laurson (Journalist), and Johannes Kernmayer (Producer)

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In their latest Classical Discoveries episode, Jens and Joe explore Dmitri Shostakovich’s symphonies — works of daring subversion masked as Soviet conformity. From the banned Fourth Symphony to the sardonic Ninth, they reveal how Shostakovich smuggled private rebellion into public music. Featuring the Gürzenich‑Orchester Köln’s powerhouse recordings, this is Soviet‑era genius at its most explosive: “Quiet in person, screaming in music.”

0:20   Introduction
1:20   Symphony No. 1 – One of the Best First Symphonies
4:30   Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 – To Please the State
9:14   Symphony No. 4 – “Muddle Instead of Music”
14:03  Overview and Categorisation
15:39  Symphony No. 5 – Well‑Behaved and Popular
16:38  Symphony No. 7 – And the Fireman
18:00  Symphony No. 9 – Light and Simple Classicism
21:28  Symphony No. 14 – The Russian Loreley
24:17  Symphony No. 15 – Why Wilhelm Tell?
26:56  Quiet in Person – Screaming in Music
28:12  Symphony No. 15 – The Wagner Quotes
29:25  Conclusion

C7435  Shostakovich: The Symphonies
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• Gürzenich‑Orchester Köln

• Dmitrji Kitajenko

Kirill Kondrashin - Solomon Volkov - Serge Prokofiev

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Jens F. Laurson (Journalist) and Johannes Kernmayer (Producer)

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In their latest episode of the Classical Discoveries podcast, Jens and Joe explore the scintillating music of Charles Koechlin, a fascinating yet overlooked French symphonist who defies easy categorisation. Neither purely an impressionist nor simply a romantic, dramatic, lyric, abstract, or “programmatic” composer, Koechlin combined revolutionary, academic, and eclectic traits. One moment his language recalls Debussy and Ravel, the next he sounds like Poulenc, Florent Schmitt, or even Olivier Messiaen.

0:20   Introduction
1:36   Koechlin – A little bit of everything?
4:51   Symphony No. 1 – Recording Session
9:01   Backgrounds – Jungle Book and the Symphony
10:56  A pupil of Fauré
11:27  The Seven Stars’ Symphony, Op. 132
12:16  The Movie Stars of the Symphony
14:33  Greta Garbo (Excerpt)
16:43  Charlie Chaplin (Excerpt)
17:45  Vers la voûte étoilée, Op. 129 (Excerpt)
19:27  Conclusion

C5533  Charles Koechlin: Symphony No. 1
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C5449  Charles Koechlin: The Seven Stars’ Symphony (Capriccio)
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Sinfonieorchester Basel

• Website: https://www.sinfonieorchesterbasel.ch

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgllfsUfm3qWSsZQE7vTnJw

Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen

• Website: https://www.wuerttembergische-philharmonie.de/musik/

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Ariane Matiakh

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• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arianematiakh/

Recommended Persons

Claude Debussy - Gabriel Fauré - Albert Roussel - Olivier Messiaen - Charlie Chaplin - Clara Bow - Greta Garbo - Marlene Dietrich - Rudyard Kipling

With:
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