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"Give 100 percent": that old saying and sports mantra has lost some of its meaning over time, but it's an approach and mentality that's still work...
- Added: Nov 30, 2009
- Length: :24
Violinist Joshua Bell's CD "At Home with Friends" is an eclectic mix of classical music, Blue Grass, Jazz, Indian music and more. In a sense, this...
- Added: Oct 30, 2009
- Length: :26
What makes Handel and Handel's Messiah so powerful and magnificent? That may seem like a question with no complete answer or a long list of answer...
Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and KWAX
- Added: Nov 30, 2006
- Length: :33
- Purchases: 3
Mahler's Symphony No. 8, known as the "Symphony of a Thousand," calls for three choruses, eight vocal soloists and a massive orchestra. Despite th...
Bought by KTXK
- Added: Sep 27, 2009
- Length: :26
- Purchases: 1
Up-and-coming performers dream of getting their big break. For harpist Catrin Finch, her big break came with the help of a royal music lover - His...
- Added: Sep 26, 2009
- Length: :20
Harpist Catrin recorded the Bach Goldberg Variations. Musical purists will likely raise some type of fuss over the "Goldbergs" being played on the...
- Added: Sep 26, 2009
- Length: :25
Bach's Goldberg Variations – now there's a piece of music where we could have a practically endless conversation, starting with the first few notes...
- Added: Sep 26, 2009
- Length: :24
Andrew Litton is not the first, and probably not the last to say his big career break came when he saw Leonard Bernstein conduct for the first time...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jul 25, 2009
- Length: :28
- Purchases: 1
Normally, Andrew Litton does not delve too deeply into a composer's life story and history when he prepares to conduct that composer's music. He m...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jul 25, 2009
- Length: :27
- Purchases: 1
Pianist Angela Cheng, like many people, has a thing for Mozart -- his symphonies, his piano concertos and his uncanny ability with first drafts. S...
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Jul 27, 2009
- Length: :22
- Purchases: 1
Pianist Clara Schumann was ahead of her time -- she was a leading soloist of her day and a composer. Although she's best known as Robert Schumann'...
- Added: Jul 27, 2009
- Length: :25
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
Its subtitle is the "Elvira Madigan" Concerto, thanks to its presence in the obscure 1967 Swedish film by the same name. But Mozart's Piano Concer...
- Added: Jun 27, 2009
- Length: :26
There are hundreds of lists that designate the Top Ten or Top 100 of anything, from movies to books to restaurants. Classical music has its "best ...
- Added: Jun 27, 2009
- Length: :26
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
Shostakovich is an important part of Paavo Jarvi's repertoire. Although the composer's music often tells the story of Russian history and politics...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jun 27, 2009
- Length: :25
- Purchases: 1
On her "Journey to the New World" CD, guitarist Sharon Isbin plays both parts on some Renaissance duets, with the help of modern recording technolo...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jun 27, 2009
- Length: :21
- Purchases: 1
Violinist and composer Mark O'Connor wrote a set of solo violin pieces titled "Strings and Threads." In addition to its absolutely charming and in...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jun 27, 2009
- Length: :24
- Purchases: 1
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
Grieg's Piano Concerto has long held its place as an audience favorite and as the calling card for several generations of pianists, including Leif ...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :25
You'll hear some of the most brilliant virtuosic flourishes about midway through Debussy's First Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra. They're almo...
- Added: Apr 30, 2009
- Length: :24
The Duetto for String Bass, Clarinet and Orchestra was written by Giovanni Bottesini, one of the greatest bass players of the 19th century. Since ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2009
- Length: :26
After a stormy and almost raucous orchestral introduction, the clarinet makes a quiet, almost innocent entrance in the Concertino for Clarinet by C...
- Added: Apr 30, 2009
- Length: :31
