Welcome to Radio 5mbs 99.9fm
South Australia’s Music Broadcasting Society
Radio 5mbs 99.9FM broadcasts fine classical, jazz, blues, and world music across the Adelaide metropolitan area on the FM band, around the world through online streaming, and on demand so you can listen later. We are a community bound by music and our passionate volunteers make this enterprise possible. We hope you’ll join us.
What's Interesting?
Twenty Twenty-One
- Date: 4 April at 8.00 PM
- Info: Yvonne Schwerdt presents this program beginning with An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise by Peter Maxwell-Davies, one of the few works in classical repertoire to include a bagpipe solo. De Severac’s Cerdana, Five Picturesque Studies for piano, depicts the Cerdagne region of the Pyrenees dividing France and Spain. The major work in the program is Goossens Symphony No 2 followed by Poulenc’s Oboe Sonata and Graeme Koehne’s Rain Forest.
Baroque and Before
- Date: 7 April 6pm
- Info: Also on Sunday the 7th Andrew Gardiner brings us music by William Brade, the little known English composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, who was mainly active in Northern Germany. His Newe ausserlesene liebliche is played by Jordi Savall’s Hesperion XXI. Music by Willaert, Bach, Buxtehude and Frescobaldi is also included in the program.