4. Easy Listening - Schubert Rondo for Violin and String Orchestra, 3 Copland Songs, Strauss Vienna Blood Waltz.

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Welcome back to Perfect Pitch with Nick Healy Hutchinson and his fresh approach to the world of classical music. Whether you're an expert or a beginner, old or young, Perfect Pitch has something for everyone.

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When introducing classical music to people for the first time, I've always believed that melody is a vital starting point. It's not there in everything, of course, but it's a heck of a site easier when it is. Despite covering a wide range of different types of composition, be it songs, symphonies, chamber music, or masses, the greatest tunesmith of them all, Franz Hubert, and yes, I include Mozart in that, never got round to writing a concerto for a solo instrument and orchestra. But this rondo for violin and string orchestra is more than adequate compensation. Beethoven wrote two romances for violin and orchestra, and I'm quite certain that he would have been proud to call this his third. The rondo itself is a very catchy tune, and you can't help but being uplifted. The piece is played and led here by Guidon Kramer and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Some of his most famous 100 works were written in the 1940s, pieces like Appellation Spring, Rodeo, and Fanfare for a Common Man. But as a composer who lived for almost all of the 20th century, he was thus exposed to all manner of genre and music, as well as those trying to hold on to some kind of melody. Certainly, he was himself quick to realize what audiences wanted to hear, so he travelled and experimented. The result, as one critic put it, was to establish the American sound, an optimistic tone with a love of large canvases, in keeping, I suppose, with the vast American landscape. He did not, for example, have much time for experiments in electronic music, saying, I spent most of my life trying to get the right note in the right place, just throwing it open to chance, seems to go against my natural instincts. The composer Ned Roram put it very succinctly. Aaron brought leanness to American music, and thanks to him, American music came into its own. There's also a certain songfulness about his style. So we're going to listen to three songs now. The first, At the River, sung by Shirley Verrett. The second, doubt looks very familiar, I Bought Me a Cat by Thomas Crossov. And the third, the Boatman song, sung by Jubilant Sykes. All of them display his love of the spiritual, but they are also excellent miniatures, fulfilling Ned Roman's comment about leanness, which he introduced, by the way, by saying, remove, remove, remove what isn't necessary. And with that, I'll get out of the way for us to enjoy these three little gems.

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At the river, I bought me a cat, a boatman song by Aaron Copeland Where bright angels feet have thrown with its Christmas, the beauty of the shiny.

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I've had my cat on the yonder tree. My cat has filled a free. I've bought me a duck, my duck fits me. I've had my duck under yonder tree, my duck has qua. My cat has fed a lot free. I've bought me a goose, my ghost picked me. I've had my ghost under yonder tree. My ghost has quite quite my duck has quite one. My cat has filled up me. I've bought me the hand, my hand on the tree. I've had my hand on the yonder tree. My hand has quite my ghost as quite my dark set quite quite. My cat has filled up. I bought me a twin. My pig that's quite my hands, that's up. My gold sets quite quite my dark space quite quite. My cat has filled up. I've got me a cow, my own, I've had my own under yum. But how fast that's good but my head test one my dog that's quite my pet my horse on the yard my horse that's cooked my house that's that's cool my head is that's pop my body that's quite quite my dogs that's quite my last few I've got me a white my wife I've got my wife on the yard my wife's that my horse test my house my pick my back down the river The boatman dance the boat that sings the boatman up to everything And when the boatman gets on shore he spends his fashion once more more than dancing the boatman dance or dance the boatman dance or dance all night to broad daylight and go home with the gals in the morning roll of boatman roll floating down the river the O I went on board the other day to see what the boatman had to say there I let my passion loose and crammy in the cows oh dance the boatman dance oh dance the boatman dance oh dance all night to broad daylight and go home with the gals in the morning floating down the rim the oh ha the boatman is a thrifty man as none can do as the boatman can I never see a pretty girl in my life but that she was a boatman's man who dance the boatman dance oh dance the boatman dance who dance all night to broad daylight and go home with the gals in the morning to get on the talking about music and his music composer is like easy as lightweight just because you've heard the new Daniel Walls a million times and assume that's as good as it gets and Australia struggled in his own day as well.

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Vienna would not anything about their own orchestra widely regarded as the best in the world at that time and his music was not taken seriously until it became clear that his composing skills were infinitely superior to those of his father with whom he had a lifelong rivalry. His first concert took place in a stunning setting of the musique line where the annual New Year's Day concert takes place now dedicated almost entirely to his family's music. Who is happy to admit that he could never have written the walls in his opera The Rosen Cavalier without knowledge of his namesake. So here's a fabulous perhaps a slightly less familiar walker Vienna Blut Vienna Blood played by the orchestra who ignored him for so long the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Andres Nelson.

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