RC 261017SAfm
Saturday, 17 October 2026
The Saturday Classical Fix on SAfm was a mostly instrumental afternoon of European favourites, with a South African art song and a Mexican waltz's royalty story standing out.
- 18:11
Mexican composer Juventino Rosas earned no royalties from Over the Waves, having sold its copyright for a pittance before the waltz became a worldwide hit.
- 17:30
Dino played Stephanus le Roux Marais's 1931 setting of a Louis Leipoldt poem, in which an enslaved woman from the Dutch East Indies longs for her tropical homeland, sung by Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha.
- 17:20
Dino recalled Herbert von Karajan as a mentor to Anne-Sophie Mutter, who first played at a festival he organised as a teenager, and who had his lasting interest in her career.
- 16:57
Dino described the Ride of the Valkyries as aggressive and warlike, recalling its use in Apocalypse Now, and said it should be played with that same fierce spirit.