Listening - Music and Yearning for the Divine

Ahmed Abdullah, a music lover and aficionado, explains how Western Classical music can be used as a tool to nurture spontaneity and instil in the heart a yearning for the divine. 

The conversation reveals how the great composers communicate a timeless message through their compositions; calling us to fulfil our destinies, reach our highest possibilities and yearn to be free.

 

Music sampled in the episode:

Bach - B Minor Mass (Proms 2012)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F7TVM8m95Y

Beethoven - 5th Symphony (Von Karajan) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-_wqx76mpc&t=130s

Beethoven - “Pathetique” (Barenboim) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGq3-Fi_zQY

Beethoven - String Quartet No. 11 “Serioso” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUlzN3Q9BUw

Wagner -Tristan und Isolde “Liebestod” (Jessye Norman) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg_EHUGRgos

Mozart - Violin concerto No 3 (Hilary Hahn) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhQAtkXOK6o

Beethoven - ‘Waldstein’ Sonata (Barenboim) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3l18HTo5rY&t=39s

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Allah Hu (1993) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj7roem9NRc&t=649s

Ustad Ameer Ali Kahn - Chaap Tilak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVsjuEoPxMs&t=736s

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Bina Ishq Na Manzil Hath Aawe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqhdFiTq-a0&t=150s

 

Music in Introduction by Ian Cattanach