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Violinist Hilary Hahn has been playing Bach throughout her career, and her most recent recording is an all-Bach CD. She says you can find many sid...
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: :20
Violinist Hilary Hahn's "Voices and Violin" CD offers mostly sacred arias by Bach that include a prominent role for the violin. At times, she conv...
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: :26
- Purchases: 1
(March 21st is Bach's birthday.) There are many ways to celebrate Bach musically. If you're a cellist, you probably thank your lucky stars every ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: :27
With Crazy Heart winning Academy Awards for best actor and best original song, Rhode Island author Thomas Cobb
says the seeds of his book were pla...
- Added: Feb 25, 2010
- Length: 04:00
Violinist Hilary Hahn once performed on the Tonight Show and her appearance just happened to coincide with the late night show's little hosting dra...
Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jan 13, 2010
- Length: :40
- Purchases: 2
Violinist Hilary Hahn performed on the Tonight Show in March 2010. Her strategy for playing in front of a huge audience of 100's of thousands is to...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jan 13, 2010
- Length: :37
- Purchases: 1
Violinist Hilary Hahn performed on the Tonight Show in March 2010. The late night show had been in the news lately with a little hosting drama. D...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jan 13, 2010
- Length: :22
- Purchases: 1
What are the ingredients that go into a successful performance? Guitarist Manuel Barrueco says once you have the notes under your belt, it’s time ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2009
- Length: :19
The Piano Trio by Tchaikovsky is somewhat bathed in sadness and melancholy – and for understandable reasons: it was written as a memorial for Tchai...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Nov 30, 2009
- Length: :28
- Purchases: 1
Rachmaninoff is known for writing expressive and engaging melodies. That's certainly the case with his Elegiac Trio No. 1. Violinist Vadim Repin ...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Nov 30, 2009
- Length: :20
- Purchases: 1
Brahms knew how to make an entrance. After a stormy orchestral introduction, the violin enters with plenty of fire and electricity. But like all ...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Nov 30, 2009
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 1
Pianist Pascal Roge has fond memories of his student days at the Paris Conservatory. He studied with Marguerite Long, who was one of Debussy's fav...
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- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: :23
- Purchases: 1
All children go through phases and stages. They can be cute, adorable, precocious and obnoxious. Pianist Pascal Roge went through each of these p...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: :15
- Purchases: 1
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 Rochester, KVLU, KUHF, and BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 4
More than 350 musicians are heard on the recording of the Mahler Symphony No. 8 with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Tils...
- Added: Sep 27, 2009
- Length: :30
Mahler's Symphony No. 8, known as the "Symphony of a Thousand," calls for about 350 musicians on stage – a massive orchestra, three choirs and eigh...
- Added: Sep 27, 2009
- Length: :27
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
Clara Schumann, wife of Robert Schumann was quite celebrated as a pianist, but she was also a gifted composer. Today, one her biggest fans is piani...
- Added: Jul 27, 2009
- Length: :24
George Gershwin could be called a "What If" composer. "What if" he had lived longer than just 39 years, what more would he have written? And, "Wh...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jul 25, 2009
- Length: :22
- Purchases: 1
Recording duets with yourself, meaning recording both parts of a duet, is not a new invention. You record the first part, and then record the seco...
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- Added: Jun 27, 2009
- Length: :24
- Purchases: 1
Composer John Corigliano grew up surrounded by music. His father was the concertmaster (1st violinist) with the New York Philharmonic for 23 years...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :24
"Sea in Spring" was written by a blind Japanese composer, Michio Miyagi . Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers says this music calls on her to use some spe...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :18
When violinist Julia Fischer performs with other musicians, she likes that opportunity to make personal connections on stage. When she plays the S...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :26
You may have heard that the future of the recording industry is somewhat up in the air as new technologies make it possible to access music in new ...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :22
Beethoven was known to be a micro-manager with his music, at times giving the performer note-by-note instructions on how to play. Well, Beethoven ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :25
