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Virtuoso Voices - Cho-Liang Lin (Respect Your Vivaldi)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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 (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...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :18
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Don't be Boring)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: :26
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Sarah Chang (Young & Fearless)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Overnight success does happen but it's more myth than reality. Violinist Sarah Chang made her debut when she was 8 years old. Her success that ev...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 28, 2007
  • Length: :18
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Debussy the Tailor)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
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...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 02, 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...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: :16
  • 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...

Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and KZYX


  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: :25
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - JoAnn Falletta (You're Fired!)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Conductor JoAnn Falletta talks about the mostly positive changes that have taken place in the classical music, particularly the new face and image ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 25, 2006
  • Length: :39
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Copland's Jazz Blessing)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Richard Stoltzman
Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman calls composer Aaron Copland on the phone to ask his permission to bring a more jazz-like sensibility to the composer...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 21, 2006
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Richard Stoltzman (Mozart My Way)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Richard Stoltzman
Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman talks about the evolution of his interpretation of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto. Putting old recordings by his clari...

Bought by WHRV, WITF, and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 21, 2006
  • Length: :21
  • Purchases: 3
Virtuoso Voices - Joshua Bell (Mendelssohn Lover)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Violinist Joshua Bell speculates he's performed Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto a thousand times. And each time he plays it, he's reminded of why it...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :24
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Joshua Bell (Rubber Band Man)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The Stradivarius Violin is the gold standard when it comes to violin making. Although violinist Joshua plays a Strad today, he remembers his very ...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: :20
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Gil Shaham (Loves Choosing Repertoire)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Have you ever wondered how a performer chooses the music they'll play and record? For Gil Shaham, it's simply a case of love at first hearing. Us...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Sep 02, 2006
  • Length: :18
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Andrew Litton (Dvorak Wind Serenade)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Conductor Andrew Litton gives Dvorak and a highly polished Wind section some time in the spotlight. Use this 27 second clip to introduce Andrew Lit...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Aug 31, 2006
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 2