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Prokofiev was not the only classical composer to paint a musical portrait of a sleigh ride on a snowy day. Listen as we take you through several ot...
- Added: Dec 19, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 3
Musical firsts for the first week of a new year - First of five programs for January 2009.
- Added: Dec 19, 2008
- Length: 06:29
The life and music of Franz Schubert - Second of five programs for January 2009.
- Added: Dec 19, 2008
- Length: 06:30
Music written for piano four hands - Fourth of five programs for January 2009
- Added: Dec 22, 2008
- Length: 06:30
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 4
Copland's Rodeo launched the career of Agnes de Mille.
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KVLU, WQXR, and KUHF
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 4
Tritsch-Tratsch is Austrian slang for "chit-chat." More music that portrays conversation -- and more.
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WQXR, KVLU, and KUHF
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 4
An introduction to a dance from the Polish court, the Polonaise.
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KVLU, KUHF, and WQXR
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 4
An exploration of ballet and Tchaikovsky's ballet compositions.
Bought by WMNR, WGBH Radio Boston, WQXR, KUHF, and KVLU
- Added: Nov 15, 2012
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 5
- Added: Nov 15, 2012
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 6
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Sep 13, 2012
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 4
1685 was a very good year for German composers. Within the space of a month, two of the greatest were born: Johann Sebastian Bach, and George Frede...
- Added: Apr 30, 2014
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 4
Handel wrote his Water Music for the King of England. Lots of aristocrats hired composers to write music for them. But some kings and nobles wrote ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2014
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 3
Usually, an overture is a piece of music played at the beginning of a play, opera or ballet in order to set the mood. But there are also other kind...
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 3
Depicting a thunderstorm in music was one of Rossini's specialties. Here are some more examples of musical thunderstorms.
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 3
In music, a suite is a specific collection of pieces. Here are some examples of various kinds of musical suites.
- Added: Dec 19, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 3
Lt. Kijé is the story of an imaginary soldier, created when the Russian Tsar misread a smudged name on a list of his men.
- Added: Dec 19, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 4
Originally, a musical fantasy was a piece that instrumentalists made up as they went along. Eventually, fantasies evolved into pieces that composer...
- Added: Nov 15, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 3
Benjamin Britten composed his Simple Symphony when he was twenty, but he based it on music that he'd written much earlier -- some of it when he was...
- Added: Oct 10, 2013
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 2
Pizzicato is the Italian word for “plucked” -- it tells string players how to play their instruments at a given spot in the music. A lot of musical...
- Added: Oct 10, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 2
Classics for Kids is a fun introduction to classical music for kids of all ages. Each month focuses on a different composer. In May, 2021 we featu...
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- Added: Apr 28, 2021
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 5
