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What makes a composer's music resonate with the audience? Composer John Adams offers a starting point to this ultimately unanswerable question. U...
Bought by WETS and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 2
Oboe players fuss over their reeds, trumpet players worry about their lips and string players guard their instruments and their bows. Pianists fre...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :17
In music, and music schools worldwide, the teacher - student relationship can be a somewhat complicated matter. The tradition and traditional view...
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: :19
Each piece of music contains a certain degree of instruction from the composer as to how they want their music played. Some composers are more spe...
- Added: Nov 29, 2010
- Length: :26
You’ve probably heard the expression, “Jack of all trades; master of none.” Well, meet Jaime Laredo. He’s universally recognized as a master viol...
- Added: Nov 29, 2010
- Length: :23
With all the wonderful music Gershwin wrote in a short period of time, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet wonders why many people still ask if his music i...
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
- Length: :19
Musicians, conductors and orchestras receive both criticism and compliments for their work – it’s all part of the musician’s life. While each is b...
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
- Length: :32
In music, and music schools worldwide, the teacher - student relationship can be a somewhat complicated matter. The traditional view is that the s...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Mar 31, 2010
- Length: :31
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One thing you might notice in conductor Mark Elder’s recordings of British music is his choice of tempo. By British and recording standards, they ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2010
- Length: :27
Pianist Yuja Wang plays the monumental – some might even call it “larger than life" – Piano Sonata by Liszt on her debut CD. Historically, the Son...
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: :25
Everyone has a view on the "youth of today," including conductor Charles Dutoit. When it comes to today's youth, he's not a grouch, but he would l...
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- Added: Jul 27, 2009
- Length: :28
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Composer Igor Stravinsky did not necessarily want us to hear or feel emotion in his music. According to conductor Charles Dutoit, Stravinsky was a...
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- Added: Jul 27, 2009
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The musical heights reached by Beethoven stretch even higher when you consider the enormous physical challenges he overcame, from total deafness to...
- Added: Jun 27, 2009
- Length: :25
Shostakovich is an important part of Paavo Jarvi's repertoire. Although the composer's music often tells the story of Russian history and politics...
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- Added: Jun 27, 2009
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The political difficulties that ruled the life of Russian composer, Dmitri Shostakovich were more than just minor aggravations. His refusal to fol...
- Added: Sep 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
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
Robert Schumann is universally recognized as a great pianist and composer of piano music. Cellist Steven Isserlis is a big Schumann fan, and he re...
- Added: Feb 26, 2008
- Length: :19
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
"Back Seat Drivers" are bad for those of us in the driver's seat, and they can be just as distracting for composers. Conductor Bernard Haitink tal...
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :29
Huge. Blockbuster. Larger than life. Those are just a few of the ways you could describe the Piano Sonata in B minor by Franz Liszt. Awadagin P...
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- Added: May 01, 2007
- Length: :22
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Richard Stoltzman is one of the most recognized solo clarinetists in the world, but he's never been officially welcomed into the Clarinet Fraternit...
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- Added: May 01, 2007
- Length: :24
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The "People's Favorite": pianist Garrick Ohlsson talks about the universal popularity and mood altering music by Chopin. It's like "dessert" -- wh...
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- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: :27
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Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 is a joyful ride through all of the melodies and pianistic prizes you associate with Chopin. Its Second Movement, pi...
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- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: :22
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Certain pieces of classical music are known to be soothing and even healing for the listener, but it can have similar effects on the composer who a...
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- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: :32
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