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We tend to forget that composing requires advanced skills, in addition to its purely creative inspiration. That fusion of skill, craft and creativ...
- Added: Jun 27, 2009
- Length: :23
As a young man, and a young composer, Beethoven used the piano as a laboratory, where he could experiment and try out new sounds and musical ideas....
- Added: Jun 27, 2009
- Length: :26
It was voted the Number One Song on the American Film Institute's list of the "100 Best Songs" used in film. The beauty and autobiographical senti...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :21
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
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
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
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
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
The Silk Road Tour is cellist Yo-Yo Ma's ongoing quest to discover the cultural connections covering the large swath of land between the Mediterran...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :32
When composer John Adams attends a concert that features his music, he looks forward to hearing what the audience has to say -- as long as they don...
Bought by WETS
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :17
- Purchases: 1
Many recordings these days are made from live concert performances. The pressure and excitement of a live setting often brings out a more spontane...
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- Added: Aug 01, 2007
- Length: :22
- Purchases: 1
If you've heard or read only one thing about Haydn, it's probably that he is the undisputed "Father of the Symphony". Conductor Roy Goodman thinks...
Bought by WITF
- Added: Jul 30, 2007
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 1
Who comes first, the composer or the performer? Despite his best intentions, violinist Gil Shaham says it's impossible to stay personally detache...
Bought by WITF
- Added: May 29, 2007
- Length: :28
- Purchases: 1
Prokofiev's two Violin Sonatas, in music and mood, represent the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of Violin Sonatas. The first is dark and even contains a ...
Bought by WITF
- Added: May 29, 2007
- Length: :18
- Purchases: 1
Johannes Brahms came out of retirement to write four major works for the clarinet, including a quintet for Clarinet and Strings. Clarinetist Richa...
Bought by WITF
- Added: May 01, 2007
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 1
Yolanda Kondonassis talks about one of classical music's most nurturing and resonating relationships -- the one between French composer Claude Debu...
Bought by WITF and New England Public Media
- Added: Mar 02, 2007
- Length: :31
- Purchases: 2
Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman talks about the evolution of his interpretation of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto. Putting old recordings by his clari...
Bought by WHRV, WITF, and New England Public Media
- Added: Dec 21, 2006
- Length: :21
- Purchases: 3
