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Virtuoso Voices - Roy Goodman (Haydn's Children)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

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

Virtuoso Voices - Stephen Hough (Rachmaninoff's Trousers)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

You don't need to be Russian to play Rachmaninoff, although some well-meaning Russians have been known to make that nationalistic claim. Still, pi...

Bought by WITF

Added: Jul 30, 2007
Length: :32
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Stephen Hough (Chopin's Legendary Ballades)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Chopin's Ballades for piano scale some of the hefty dramatic and emotional heights that personify the "romantic" era of composition from the late 1...

Bought by WITF

Added: Jul 31, 2007
Length: :31
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Chill Out)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Somebody always falls asleep at a concert. It's been a long day; the concert is at the end of the day. Maybe the performance is a real "yawner." ...

Bought by WITF

Added: Jun 26, 2007
Length: :29
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Not Always Sweet)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Yolanda Kondonassis is an advocate for harp music new and old. When she lobbies today's composers, she encourages them to both appreciate and thin...

Bought by WITF

Added: Jun 26, 2007
Length: :28
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Salzedo's Sugar)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Carlos Salzedo was an innovative man of the harp. He performed, he taught, he built instruments and composed. As a composer, Yolanda Kondonassis ...

Bought by WITF

Added: Jun 26, 2007
Length: :31
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Who's Hovhaness?)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Traditionally, composers have gone beyond their own national boundaries for their creative inspiration. One composer who frequently thought and co...

Bought by WITF

Added: Jun 26, 2007
Length: :29
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Maurizio Pollini (Universal Chopin)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Before Pope John Paul II, Poland's most celebrated national hero was Frederic Chopin. His music was a source of inspiration and comfort for a coun...

Bought by WITF

Added: Jun 25, 2007
Length: :27
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Maurizio Pollini (Mozart not Muzak)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 is very well known, primarily because of its Second Movement. Besides the concert hall and CD, you're also likely to...

Bought by WHRV and WITF

Added: Jun 26, 2007
Length: :26
Purchases: 2

Virtuoso Voices - JoAnn Falletta (Brooklyn Cowboy)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

It's natural to wonder how a composer can write music that touches us in such powerful ways. With Aaron Copland, that question is more specific. ...

Bought by WITF

Added: Jun 20, 2007
Length: :34
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - JoAnn Falletta (Easy Does It)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

There is ample evidence that composer Aaron Copland wanted his music performed straight, as is, with little added emotion or nuance by the performe...

Bought by WITF

Added: Jun 20, 2007
Length: :26
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - JoAnn Falletta (Nervous Composers)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

If you're a conductor, it's helpful to have a living composer at your side to answer questions about their music that may come up during rehearsals...

Bought by WITF

Added: Jun 26, 2007
Length: :28
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Maurizio Pollini (No Mozart Reruns)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Two of the most frequently used key strokes on the computer are "copy" and "paste." It probably saves us hours of time each week. Pianist Maurizi...

Bought by WHRV and WITF

Added: Jun 26, 2007
Length: :23
Purchases: 2

Virtuoso Voices - Maurizio Pollini (Mozart Without Conductor)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Mozart originally conceived many of his Piano Concertos as works he would both play and conduct. Occasionally, pianist Maurizio Pollini performs t...

Bought by WHRV and WITF

Added: Jun 26, 2007
Length: :33
Purchases: 2

Virtuoso Voices - Gil Shaham (Brahms is Humbling)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Violinist Gil Shaham is spending much of this year playing Brahms. Whether it's the Sonatas, the Violin Concerto or the Double Concerto, it's alwa...

Bought by WITF

Added: May 30, 2007
Length: :28
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Gil Shaham (Family Gathering)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Violinist Gil Shaham plays with his sister Orli and her husband, conductor David Robertson. He also performs with his wife, violinist Adele Anthon...

Bought by WITF

Added: May 30, 2007
Length: :25
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Gil Shaham (Forces of Evil)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Violinist Gil Shaham says Prokofiev "never wrote a bad note." But in Prokofiev's First Violin Sonata, Shaham is drawn more to the Sonata's back st...

Bought by WITF

Added: May 30, 2007
Length: :30
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Gil Shaham (It's Primal)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

When you love your work, it's more than just a "job." And that's certainly the case with many musicians, including violinist Gil Shaham (SHAH-hahm)...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media

Added: May 31, 2007
Length: :32
Purchases: 2

Virtuoso Voices - Gil Shaham (It's Too Late)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

Violinist Gil Shaham became an overnight success when he filled in for Itzhak Perlman at the last moment. Excited after a champagne sipping flight...

Bought by WITF

Added: May 30, 2007
Length: :28
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Gil Shaham (Loyalty to Brahms)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

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

Virtuoso Voices - Gil Shaham (Meet My Wife)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

When violinist Gil Shaham plays recitals with his sister Orli Shaham, members of the audience are often the victims of an innocent case of mistaken...

Bought by WITF

Added: May 29, 2007
Length: :18
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Gil Shaham (Sunny Side Up)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

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

Virtuoso Voices - Cho-Liang Lin (Respect Your Vivaldi)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

At times, Vivaldi is the "Rodney Dangerfield of composers." He gets no respect from the many pundits and experts who say he wrote the same concert...

Bought by WITF

Added: May 11, 2007
Length: :25
Purchases: 1

Virtuoso Voices - Cho-Liang Lin (Fairy Tale)

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)

The First Violin Concerto by Prokofiev is not the traditional concerto where the soloist dominates the stage with long romantic melodies and show s...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media