In our next installment, Sascha takes Adam to see The Australian World Orchestra perform The Turangalîla-Symphonie by Messiaen conducted by Simone Young. Will Adam enjoy this as much as the chamber trio? Will he be able to count the amount of musicians on stage? (no) Will he understand why the have so many double basses on stage? (not really)<p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

What is a deceptive cadence? Why don’t we applaud between movements? Did we ever? What is A440? Where has the contralto gone?  Why is the twelfth root of 2 so important in music? Bach to Basics each week brings in a different instrumentalist into the studio to dig around in the nooks and crannies of Classical Music. Co-hosted by Sascha Kelly and Adam Branson, Bach to Basics shows that the simplest of questions don't always have the simplest of answers.