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Virtuoso Voices - Lorin Maazel (Addiction)

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

Some obsessions and compulsions are better than others, and conductor Lorin Maazel admits that at one point in his career, he spent too much time a...

Bought by WXXI, KVLU, KUHF, and BYU radio/KUMT/KBYU-FM

Virtuoso Voices - Lorin Maazel (Waltzing)

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

There's musical fluff that lasts a moment and then quickly disappears into the air, and then there's music that is mistaken for fluff. In that las...

Bought by BYU radio/KUMT/KBYU-FM

Virtuoso Voices - Lorin Maazel (Get to Work)

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

What does a conductor really do? It's a long list, but for Lorin Maazel, there one thing that's definitely not on that list. Use this 24 second c...

Bought by BYU radio/KUMT/KBYU-FM

Virtuoso Voices - Lorin Maazel (New York Love Affair)

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

Since leaving the New York Philharmonic in 2009, conductor Lorin Maazel has been as busy as ever, but never too busy to look back at his seven year...

Bought by BYU radio/KUMT/KBYU-FM

Virtuoso Voices - Lorin Maazel (Don't Play for Me)

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

How does a conductor get the orchestra to play for him or her? Conductor Lorin Maazel says that's the wrong question to ask if you want to get a g...

Bought by BYU radio/KUMT/KBYU-FM

Virtuoso Voices - Lorin Maazel (Takes a Mahler Break)

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

There are coffee breaks, lunch breaks, and at one point in his career, conductor Lorin Maazel found the need to take a Mahler break. Use this 28 s...

Virtuoso Voices: Produced Funders - Lorin Maazel (No Barriers)

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

Caption: Lorin Maazel, Credit: Bill Bernstein

For your On-Air Fundraising: these pieces have been designed to give stations three options for using and creating a fundraising spot with a major ...

Bought by KVNO, WMNR, and WSKG

Virtuoso Voices(tm)

642 Pieces

Virtuoso Voices is a collection of timely and topical sound bites from classical music's leading performers. Each sound bite (or clip) will bring your listeners an insider's perspective to the classical music they enjoy on your station. Virtuoso Voices offers classical music announcers an additional way to enhance their breaks by using the voice of the artist whose recording they're about to play on their shift.

From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Updated: Nov 29, 2010

Virtuoso Voices - Thomas Stacy (Goodbye Leonard Bernstein)

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

Caption: Thomas Stacy, Credit: Chris Lee

As the English horn player for the New York Philharmonic, Thomas Stacy says he's been privileged to work with some of the finest conductors from se...

Bought by BYU radio/KUMT/KBYU-FM

Virtuoso Voices - Hilary Hahn (Freaky)

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

Violinist Hilary Hahn is one of many musicians who consider Bach’s music to be timeless. She says Bach’s music “doesn’t necessarily belong in one ...

Bought by KUHF

Virtuoso Voices - Midori (Child Power)

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

Violinist Midori has two powerful loves in her life: music and children. She leads two foundations that seek to improve the quality of life for c...

Virtuoso Voices - Midori (Lost in Time)

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

For most musicians, Bach is more than just music. For violinist Midori, Bach is a way of life. Use this 26 second clip to introduce Midori playin...

Virtuoso Voices - Midori (Modern Bach)

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

Violinist Midori is celebrating her 28th year of music making – and one of her recent projects includes playing more contemporary music. Playing n...

Virtuoso Voices - Zuill Bailey (Nocturne)

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

Caption: Zuill Bailey, Credit: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

The Nocturne by Tchaikovsky lives at the intersection of melancholy and beauty – you can hear and feel both. And for cellist Zuill Bailey, it’s mu...

Virtuoso Voices - Yuja Wang (Transformation)

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

Pianist Yuja Wang has a CD that includes a Theme and Variations and two orchestral works that have been transcribed for piano. But that’s not the ...

Virtuoso Voices - Piotr Anderszewski (Justice)

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

Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski champions two composers from his country – Frederic Chopin and Karol Szymanowski. Like Chopin, Szymanowski’s mus...

Virtuoso Voices - Simone Dinnerstein (Breathless)

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

When Bach asks the keyboard player to play fast, pianist Simone Dinnerstein responds with bright, even snappy tempos. She also remembers to come u...

Virtuoso Voices - Semyon Bychkov (Obsession)

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

The “Symphonic Dances for Orchestra” is one of the best known works Rachmaninoff wrote after a long and punishing creative drought. The Dances rep...

Virtuoso Voices - Yuja Wang (Apocalypse)

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

The young pianist from China, Yuja Wang is generating considerable excitement for her playing and astounding technical mastery of composers like Ra...

Bought by KUHF

Virtuoso Voices - Catrin Finch (Survivor)

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

One of the beauties of classical music is that some things never go out of style. Use this 24 second clip to introduce harpist Catrin Finch playin...

Virtuoso Voices - Paavo Jarvi (Authenticity)

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

Caption: Paavo Järvi, Credit: Photo by Lang Photography

"Authenticity" became the buzz word for playing Baroque music in the 80's and 90's and the "Authentic Instrument" movement changed the way we now p...

Bought by BYU radio/KUMT/KBYU-FM

Virtuoso Voices - Sharon Isbin (Greensleeves)

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

Guitarist Sharon Isbin jokes that in a former life, she must have lived during the Renaissance era. Music from the 16th century clearly awakens bo...

Bought by BYU radio/KUMT/KBYU-FM

Virtuoso Voices - Julia Fischer (Seducer)

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

The Violin Concerto by Aram Khachaturian was once very popular and championed by several violin super heroes of the past, including Jascha Heifetz....

Virtuoso Voices - David Shifrin (Supernatural)

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

You may have heard the story of the young clarinetist who brought Brahms out of retirement to write for the instrument. Fittingly, Brahms' clarine...

Virtuoso Voices - Michael Torke (Javelin)

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

Like many composers Michael Torke worries about coming up with the right titles for his music. When he wrote "Javelin," he wondered if the title m...

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