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Virtuoso Voices - Cho-Liang Lin (The Big Picture)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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With concertos, it's completely natural to focus our attention on the soloist. But while it's important to hear the solo part, violinist Cho-Liang...

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  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :18
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Awadagin Pratt (Role Model)
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Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Athletes are often role models, as are some politicians and teachers. And musicians, like pianist Awadagin Pratt, can be considered role models as...

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  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Awadagin Pratt (Brahms Tight Space)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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It's always tempting to fill up your plate at the Sunday buffet table or at the salad bar. You know you can go back for seconds... or even thirds....

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  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :20
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Awadagin Pratt (Debilitating Liszt)
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Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Awadagin Pratt (Loud and Colorful)
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Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Pianist Awadagin Pratt likes to play music loud. Unlike most piano students, Pratt didn't spend hours studying the recordings made by famous piani...

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  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Bed Time)
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Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Richard Stoltzman
Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman's two children both grew up to pursue musical careers. It's not something he pushed, but music was one of the parenti...

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  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :24
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Don't be Boring)
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When you've played a piece of music for 20 or 30 years, it's easy to fall into old habits and the old ways of doing things. Clarinetist Richard St...

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  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Dream Come True)
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Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Richard Stoltzman
Johannes Brahms came out of retirement to write four major works for the clarinet, including a quintet for Clarinet and Strings. Clarinetist Richa...

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  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Little Lenny Bernstein)
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Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Richard Stoltzman
The "what if" question game is always an interesting game to play. What if Leonard Bernstein had pursued composing over conducting? What would he...

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  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Vibrato is Verboten)
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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
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Garrick Ohlsson (After the Storm)
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Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Beethoven's 4th Piano Sonata is one of the longest of his 32 sonatas, and pianist Garrick Ohlsson says every minute is rich with melody, musical in...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Garrick Ohlsson (Beethoven's Lab)
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While some might say Beethoven is best known for his 9th Symphony, or the famous first four notes of his Symphony Number 5, pianist Garrick Ohlsson...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Garrick Ohlsson (Better than Bellini)
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Composed while Chopin was still a teenager, Pianist Garrick Ohlsson calls Chopin's Piano Concerto No.2 "as great a masterpiece as anybody has ever ...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Garrick Ohlsson (Chopin for Last)
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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
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Garrick Ohlsson (Moonlit Night)
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Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Garrick Ohlsson (Polish Hero)
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Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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They "contain canons buried in flowers." "Pianist Garrick Ohlsson talks about the mixed messages contained within the Chopin Polonaises for piano....

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (Paganini the Opera)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Something's missing in violinist Hilary Hahn's latest CD. Rather than take the traditional "show off your fantastic technique" approach in two hig...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (Interior Decorator)
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Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Some Rock 'n Roll musicians are notorious for going on the road and destroying their hotel rooms. Violinist Hilary Hahn doesn't trash her room whe...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (On A Lark)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Violinist Hilary Hahn has been playing the beautiful "Lark Ascending" Violin Concerto by Ralph Vaughan Williams for most of her career -- some cons...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: :25
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (I'm No Angel )
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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"Assume nothing," says harpist Yolanda Kondonassis. Just because the harp has been linked to the angels, she adds, doesn't mean the harp and its p...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Moon Theft)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Clair de Lune (Moonlight) is one of Claude Debussy's best known works, and it's the perfect introduction to the "Impressionist" school of compositi...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: :16
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Scalpel Sutures Harp)
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Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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In the event you may be undergoing surgery in the near future, harpist Yolanda Kondonassis suggests you check to see if your health insurance cover...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Debussy the Tailor)
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Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Yolanda Kondonassis talks about one of classical music's most nurturing and resonating relationships -- the one between French composer Claude Debu...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: :31
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Hovhaness World)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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While Alan Hovhaness' music has a distinct and recognizable sound and texture, it's the sum of many different cultures and nationalities. Harpist ...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :35
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Evelyn Glennie (Defines Percussion)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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When Evelyn Glennie tells people she plays percussion, they often assume she's the drummer in a Rock band. But since there are literally thousands...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2007
  • Length: :32
  • Purchases: 2

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