French-speaking podcasts (I): Musiq3
March 25, 2008
For those who want to practise their French while listening to music, I’ll list the best available podcasts I know from French-speaking radios. I begin with the Belgian radio Musiq 3 dedicated to classical music. Their podcasts are available here and one can download all of them through this link
Here is a brief description of the most interesting podcastable programs:
The principle of “table d’écoute” is nice: the same classical piece is listened to several times through different interpretations and the guests (generally musicians or musicologists) have to vote for one of them and explain their choice. Quite instructive about classical music.
“terre de sons” is about world music
“noctuor” presents especially long pieces which cannot be displayed in day time (mahler’s symphonies, beethoven quintett, etc)
“musique et autres muses” presents musical portraits of writers, painters, films directors, choregraphers (eg sartre, stendhal, delacroix, matisse, etc). the idea of the producer is that musical passions often reveal well the personality.
“les classiques de demain” is dedicated to contemporary music (anthony braxton, giacinto scelsi,etc)
“carnet de notes” dedicates each session to one composer in particular
“appassionato” receives each week one guest, a musician, a writer or any other artist, and this guest presents her/his own musical program
