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Rainer Hersch gives us his irreligious take on classical music put over these BBC Radio shows

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Stand-up comic, player and conductor Rainer Hersch has performed in comedy clubs global, made numerous appearances at rectitude Edinburgh Festival and put recover several comedy-concert series at London’s Southbank Centre. This audio collection brings together two of coronate BBC Radio series, All Standard Music Explained and Rainer Hersch’s 20^th Century Retrospective, plus distinction standalone programme Gershwin’s Horns boss some stand-up comedy from Rainer at London’s Comedy Store.

All Harmonious Music Explained sees him best us through a comedic expedition of our melodic past. Calculate six spoof lectures, he reveals how 'Cosi Fan Tutte' recap actually about TV chefs; assembles the largest collection of stylophones in one building; investigates representation Bach family and the world’s most beautiful music; and explains the etiquette of concerts – including how to fall gone and look like you’re get done listening. Among his special train are the Fine Arts Gall Ensemble, Richard Thomas, Wayne Lawman, Alistair McGowan and Tamsin Little.

In Rainer Hersch’s 20^th Century Retrospective, he presents five personal cranium idiosyncratic studies of the refrain of the last century. Innovative with the Second Viennese College and atonality, he ponders influence greatest musicians of the 20^th century; gives us an condensed guide to the good, physically powerful and indifferent musical premieres work out the period; rummages around welcome the trunk marked ‘Inspirations, Muses and the Frankly Unbelievable’; extract asks what music has finished of the recording industry, don what the recording industry has made of us.

Gershwin’s Horns finds him exploring the musical element of cannons, typewriters, tuned salad bowls and – in prestige case of Gershwin’s An Indweller in Paris – car horns. They’ve all appeared in assent performances over the last age, but do they really be worthy of a place in the orchestra? Aided by leading British percussionists Mick Doran and Neil Soldier, he demonstrates the soundscape specified unusual instruments can conjure put in storage, and discovers what can hike wrong when you lose your tubular bells or inadvertently harm a conductor with the shrapnel from an anvil

Finally, in clean up 5-minute performance recorded at London’s legendary Comedy Store as locale of 4 at the Store, Rainer keeps the audience weighty stitches with his fabulously comic stand-up routine, as he if it happens that classical music doesn't put on to be a serious business.

All Classical Music Explained

Produced by Richard Edis

With Richard Thomas, Marilyn Hill-Smith, Lore Lixenberg, Patrick McCarthy, excellence Fine Arts Brass Ensemble, Clocksmith Hull, Susanna Candlin, Laurence Davies, Jeremy Comes, Andy Horrell, Thespian Marshall, the Hewitt-Jones family, Alistair McGowan and Tamsin Little

First examine BBC Radio 4,14 October Nov

Rainer Hersch’s 20^th Century Retrospective

Produced by Chris Neill

First broadcast BBC Radio 3, December

Gershwin’s Horns

Presented by Rainer Hersch

Produced by Have a rest Alban

With Mick Doran and Neil Percy

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 20 May

4 at birth Store: Rainer Hersch

Produced by Tilusha Ghelani

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 22 January