This podcast from the Sounds Interesting series spotlights music expressed through the prism of madness in a range of contexts, from the world of fantasy to the theatre of war.

Links to the music featured in this podcast:

Peter Maxwell Davies: 8 Songs for a Mad King (8.558191-92)
William Bolcom: The crazy woman (8.559249)
Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (8.660255-56)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (8.553438)
Robert Jager: Suite from Edvard Munch (9.70023)
Ge Gan-ru: String Quartet No. 5, “Fall of Baghdad” (8.570603)
Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe (8.557075)