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The Untranslatable

Oct 27, 2025 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Music

With DJ Jagannath

Red October

Inspired by the beautiful red fall foliage of October and the 108th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917 (by the old calendar, at least), this show will explore the influence of revolution on music - spawning a new avant-garde classical scene and the foundations of modern industrial music, and continuing to inform new genres today
The Untranslatable
7:01 AM
Alexandrov Ensemble - The Internationale
Alexandrov Ensemble The Internationale
History of the Soviet Union in Ballad and Song, Vol. 1: Songs of the Revolution and the Civil War Folkways Records 1964
7:05 AM
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7:06 AM
Vladimir Ashkenazy & St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra - Seven, They are Seven, Op. 30
Vladimir Ashkenazy & St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra Seven, They are Seven, Op. 30 Sergei Prokofiev
2002
7:14 AM
Mark Elder & BBC Symphony Orchestra - Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op. 74 - Revolution
Mark Elder & BBC Symphony Orchestra Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op. 74 - Revolution
October Revolution BBC Music 1996
7:26 AM
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7:27 AM
Valery Gergiev & Mariinsky Orchestra - Symphony No. 2 in B Major, Op. 14 "To October"
Valery Gergiev & Mariinsky Orchestra Symphony No. 2 in B Major, Op. 14 "To October" Dmitri Shostakovich
7:44 AM
Evgeny Svetlanov & Orchestre Symphonique de l'URSS - Symphony No. 6 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 23: IV. Allegro molto Vivace
Evgeny Svetlanov & Orchestre Symphonique de l'URSS Symphony No. 6 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 23: IV. Allegro molto Vivace Nikolai Myaskovsky
Myaskovsky: Complete Symphonies Nos. 1-27 Warner Classics International 2000
8:04 AM
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8:05 AM
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Frank Strobel - The Last Days of St. Petersburg Suite (Arr. F. Strobel)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Frank Strobel The Last Days of St. Petersburg Suite (Arr. F. Strobel)
Schnittke: Music for the Movies CPO 2001
8:17 AM
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Roswitha Trexler, Hermann Hahnel, Adolf Fritz Guhl & MDR-Rundfunkchor - Lenin - Requiem
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Roswitha Trexler, Hermann Hahnel, Adolf Fritz Guhl & MDR-Rundfunkchor Lenin - Requiem Hanns Eisler
Eisler: Die Teppichweber von Kujan-Bulak / Lenin-Requiem / Winterschlacht-Suite Eterna 1973
8:31 AM
Oskar Ansull & Moritz Ernst - Our March
Oskar Ansull & Moritz Ernst Our March Arthur Lourié
Lourié: Solo Piano Works CapriccioNR 2016
8:38 AM
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8:39 AM
Frederic Rzewski - The People United Will Never Be Defeated (36 Variations on "El Pueblo Unido Jamàs Serà Vencido!"): Part 1
Frederic Rzewski The People United Will Never Be Defeated (36 Variations on "El Pueblo Unido Jamàs Serà Vencido!"): Part 1
The People United Will Never Be Defeated! hat ART CD 1990
8:46 AM
Cornelius Cardew - Red Flag Prelude
Cornelius Cardew Red Flag Prelude
Four Principles in Irland Cramps Records 2001
8:49 AM
Arseny Avraamov - Symphony of Sirens
Arseny Avraamov Symphony of Sirens
9:22 AM
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9:25 AM
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Riccardo Chailly - Iron Foundry (Machine music), Op. 19
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Riccardo Chailly Iron Foundry (Machine music), Op. 19 Alexander Mosolov
Mosolov: Iron Foundry - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 - Varèse: Arcana Decca Music Group Ltd. 1994
9:28 AM
Ilhan Mimaroglu - To Kill a Sunrise: A Requiem for Those Shot In the Back / a Composition of Agitprop Music for Electromagnetic Tape
Ilhan Mimaroglu To Kill a Sunrise: A Requiem for Those Shot In the Back / a Composition of Agitprop Music for Electromagnetic Tape
To Kill a Sunrise and la Ruche Folkways Records 1976
9:50 AM
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9:51 AM
Liliane Poli, Cadigia Bove, Marisa Mazzoni, Elena Vicini, Umberto Troni, Studio di Fonologia della RAI di Milano, Coro da Camera della RAI, Roma & Nino Antonellini - Contrappunto dialettico alla mente
Liliane Poli, Cadigia Bove, Marisa Mazzoni, Elena Vicini, Umberto Troni, Studio di Fonologia della RAI di Milano, Coro da Camera della RAI, Roma & Nino Antonellini Contrappunto dialettico alla mente Luigi Nono
Abbado A-Z: Mussorgsky – Pergolesi Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 2023
Chat is archived.
DJ Jagannath (host) 7:07:32 AM
Hey everyone welcome back to The Untranslatable! Mostly classical for today
Rob from Scary Maryland 💀 🧛 🦀 7:09:13 AM
Good morning, DJ Jagannath!
DJ Jagannath (host) 7:10:36 AM
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DJ Jagannath (host) 7:13:29 AM
Good morning Rob! I see Maryland is now scary
Rob from Scary Maryland 💀 🧛 🦀 7:25:01 AM
👹
Richard Mitnick 8:02:00 AM
Good morning and thank you for starting my day off so nicely.
DJ Jagannath (host) 8:05:40 AM
Morning Richard and thank you haha, hope you're enjoying the selections
TAndy 8:49:16 AM
Good morning.
DJ Jagannath (host) 8:49:57 AM
Morning TAndy how's it going
TAndy 8:51:03 AM
It's goin
DJ Jagannath (host) 8:57:39 AM
Indeed it is
Rob from Scary Maryland 💀 🧛 🦀 9:10:47 AM
At least this time I knew that the sirens were coming from my laptop. Sometimes I have to mute the radio station to determine the source of the noise
Rob from Scary Maryland 💀 🧛 🦀 9:11:16 AM
And good morning Richard and TAndy!
Kelly Nielsen 9:12:31 AM
What a piece of music!
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:13:34 AM
It really is beautiful, especially for 1922! Avraamov had basically the whole city of Baku involved in it
Kelly Nielsen 9:14:21 AM
Wow. Can’t wait to learn more about it
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:14:46 AM
I'll be giving a brief rundown of it right after it ends in about 4 mins
Kelly Nielsen 9:16:20 AM
❤️
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:27:50 AM
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221103-arseny-avraamov-the-man-who-conducted-a-city
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:28:00 AM
Good article on the Symphony of Sirens
Kelly Nielsen 9:39:02 AM
Thank you for the article! These last couple of works are also stunning. I would love to have a recording of this show
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:41:15 AM
There's some mp3 files online and on youtube but it was never officially released I believe
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:53:16 AM
One thing I forgot to mention, this track (Nono) adapts texts about Malcolm X and the Vietnam War
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:53:32 AM
It's also an opera composed for radio
Kelly Nielsen 9:54:51 AM
Really great show this morning. Thank you DJ Jagannath!
DJ Jagannath (host) 9:56:59 AM
Thank you Kelly for tuning in!