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In almost every profession, some of the best work gets done away from the office. It's true for pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. He likes to work from h...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :23
Grieg's Piano Concerto has long held its place as an audience favorite and as the calling card for several generations of pianists, including Leif ...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :25
On a few occasions, pianist Simone Dinnerstein gets herself into trouble on the concert stage. Nothing too serious, but the difficulty usually beg...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :25
To get an orchestra of 60 or 100 players to play like one is the eternal challenge for a conductor. Every orchestra is different but conductor JoA...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :29
Is there an "American sound" when it comes to classical music? Conductor JoAnn Falletta makes this case for Aaron Copland. Use this 25 second cli...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :25
For some performers, making recordings is their bread and butter. Violinist Joshua Bell, on the other hand, is somewhat ambivalent about walking i...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :21
Dutch violinist Janine Jansen comes from a musical family, and "family time" meant playing chamber music at home. She says working in that more in...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :24
The Dutch violinist Janine Jansen has an all-Bach CD that includes the Partita Number 2. At the heart of the Partita is a slow and meditative move...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :24
The musician's life is a humbling up and down journey towards perfection, or at least musical expression on the highest level. If you don't get it...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :27
Pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy is not quite sure what's more amazing - that Beethoven wrote so many remarkable pieces of music, or that h...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :22
20th century Russian composers like Dmitri Shostakovich were expected to write what the Party defined as "proper" Russian music. And even though S...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :27
Carl Nielsen's music is filled with great sweetness and sweep, but the composer also liked to insert conflict and drama into the music by pitting i...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :25
Back in the early 1990's, a French researcher introduced a theory known as the "Mozart Effect." It advanced the idea that listening to Mozart's mu...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :23
Being a jack of all trades has its advantages, but as the saying goes, it doesn't necessarily make you a master of anything. A musical exception t...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :22
Sergei Prokofiev has no bigger fans than Gil and Orli Shaham. Though Prokofiev's place in musical history is guaranteed by a relatively small numb...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :24
When it comes to talking to members of your immediate family, can you be direct, or do you need to walk on egg shells? Brother and sister musician...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :18
Pianist Orli Shaham dreams of playing in front of the enthusiastic and traditionally very responsive audiences that attend the figure skating compe...
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- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:31
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The Overture to an opera can serve several purposes - it can get the audience in the mood and set the tone for the drama about to unfold. It can a...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: :27
One of the most talked about musicians these days is Dutch violinist Janine Jansen. Riccardo Chailly conducted an early recording of hers that fea...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: :29
Although musicians, critics and academics set high benchmarks for performing, most have come to terms with the fact that no performance will ever b...
- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: :26
You may know Leopold Stokowski as a conductor and for his role in the Disney classic, Fantasia. He was also an organist on a mission to bring grea...
- Added: Feb 27, 2008
- Length: :21
The Bach Suites for Solo Cello are the cellist's bible and yet their existence is shrouded in mystery. Cellist Steven Isserlis is happy to specula...
- Added: Feb 25, 2008
- Length: :22
All performers face numerous pressures, from career choices to wardrobe selection. Young musicians and teenage actors are often pressed to grow up...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :22
Pianist Murray Perahia devoted a number of years to only studying and playing Bach. It was a time of great learning and healing in his life as be ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :27
Finding ways to keep music fresh is a performing musician's ongoing challenge, especially with a work they've played hundreds of times. Cellist Yo...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :28
