Des Wilson
Death and Venice - Part 3 - Nostalgia and Decay, Jazz and Jets
The events of 1797 which inspired Wordsworth's famous sonnet on the Extinction of the Venetian Republic also triggered the Romantic imagination for next century and a half. The nostalgia for the shade… Audio
Death and Venice - Part 2 - From Birth to Glory
Little music survives from the first eight hundred years of Venice's glorious history. Much of the great output of its decadence, the product of the last two centuries of the Republic, the… Audio
Death and Venice - Part 1 - Power, Pleasure and Mortality
The name Venezia triggers a whole series of images and sound-bites of memory or anticipation. Canals, gondolas, towering marble and intricate windows, pigeons and cafes, lapping waters and sonorous… Audio
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Elric Hooper and Des Wilson discuss Igor Stravinsky's music. Audio
Sacred music from Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
Performed by Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul conducted by Peter Godfrey with Katherine Dienes (organ). Introduced by Des Wilson. Audio