ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Harmony Beyond Music is a series of concerts and podcasts exploring themes of equality and diversity. The concerts are performed by internationally recognised musicians brought together by Reiko Fujisawa. The podcasts are presented by Peter Quantrill and Andy Pratt.
Outsiders.
A quartet of composers who never fitted into polite society. Satie and his music took a sideways look at Belle Epoque Paris, while Rued Langgaard stuck to his Romantic voice in a Danish world of music dominated by Carl Nielsen. Growing up as a labourer’s son on a small island, Nielsen himself never fitted other people’s ideas of a sophisticated artist, while Beethoven tugged at the strings of patronage which dictated the terms of a composer as servant to his masters. Compromise was an alien word to all four composers, and their music is proud to be different.
