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How does one interpret music? How do performers and conductors decide how to shape and craft the music they play? Conductor Gerard Schwarz likes ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
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How do performers and conductors choose the way they shape the music they play? It's different for each performer. Some look to history or academ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :19
Beethoven's last piano sonata contains one of classical music's all-time most shocking moments. Right in the middle of the sonata, without warning...
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- Added: Mar 31, 2009
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There's your driver's license, your passport, and if you're clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, your clarinet sound is another proof of I-D. Use this 2...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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There are a number of ways, all subjective of course, to judge a successful performance of Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9 "Kreutzer". For violini...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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Beethoven was known to be a micro-manager with his music, at times giving the performer note-by-note instructions on how to play. Well, Beethoven ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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Although the practice is as old as music itself, taking a piece of music for one instrument and adapting it to another still causes scowls and glar...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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What are the secrets of Bach and his music's ability to reach a wide variety of musical tastes? He had all the skills, technique and other musical...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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Bach's music for organ, harpsichord and violin is among the most frequently transcribed and re-adapted music of our time. On pianist Helene Grimau...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
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With some music, especially new music, it takes a couple of hearings to really get to know the music and to find out what it's really all about. V...
- Added: Nov 28, 2008
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We celebrated Mozart's 250th anniversary year in 2006 with concerts, special recordings and festive celebrations throughout the world. Violinist A...
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- Added: Nov 27, 2008
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Bach's "Air on the G String" is one of classical music's best known, and most often played melodies. When violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter plays the "...
- Added: Nov 26, 2008
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The Bach - Jazz relationship is not a new idea: musicians, scholars and music lovers have been making that connection for years. Violinist Anne-S...
- Added: Nov 26, 2008
- Length: :26
Very few things could be duller than a discussion about violin bows, unless you're a violinist. But a good bow does make a difference. Violinist ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2008
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Jingle Bells – what could be more familiar at Christmas time? Arranger Howard Cable made a new version of Jingle Bells that Canadian Brass tuba pl...
- Added: Nov 29, 2008
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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
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Alexander Zemlinsky is one of several early 20th century German composers whose music was suppressed by the Nazis prior to World War Two. Conducto...
- Added: Jul 28, 2008
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Composer Alexander Zemlinsky was one of several German composers who ran afoul of the German government in the early 20th century. Conductor James...
- Added: Jul 28, 2008
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You've heard the saying "you can't judge a book by its cover." When it comes to Bach, Emerson String Quartet violinist, Eugene Drucker likes to as...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
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Knowing the story or its inspiration is one way to get inside the music, but conductor Riccardo Muti says there's a more basic approach. Use this ...
- Added: May 31, 2008
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There are two types of people; those who go on vacation and take their work; and those who leave their lap top at home. Composer Carl Nielsen wrot...
- Added: May 31, 2008
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In classical music, labels and categories can provide a helpful context and entry point to enjoying a composer or composition. But they can also b...
- Added: May 31, 2008
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Composer Robert Schumann had many admirers, but his critics said he did not know how to write for the orchestra. Gustav Mahler made some adjustmen...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
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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
The young Dutch violinist Janine Jansen is getting a lot of attention for her recordings and concert performances. Riccardo Chailly conducted her ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
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