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Virtuoso Voices - Orli Shaham (Peter and the Rainbow)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Sergei Prokofiev has no bigger fans than Gil and Orli Shaham. Though Prokofiev's place in musical history is guaranteed by a relatively small numb...

  • Added: May 31, 2008
  • Length: :24
Virtuoso Voices - Rolf Smedvig (Mind Blowing Haydn)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Trumpet players thank their lucky stars every day for Telemann and Purcell. In their day, they added dozens of new works to the repertoire. When ...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: :23
Virtuoso Voices - Sarah Chang (Six Trillion Concertos)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The cynical judgment often leveled against Vivaldi is he wrote the same concerto 100 times. Vivaldi fans respond to that charge with varying degre...

Bought by WEKU


  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: :22
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Emanuel Ax (Battling Brahms)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Although musicians, critics and academics set high benchmarks for performing, most have come to terms with the fact that no performance will ever b...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: :26
Virtuoso Voices - Julia Fischer (Universal Soul Mate)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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While your spouse or significant other is likely to be your soul mate, you might also have a composer who fills the musical equivalent of a soul ma...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2007
  • Length: :25
Virtuoso Voices - Julia Fischer (Quick Connection)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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When you play before an audience, you're focused on reaching the people in the front row all the way to the person sitting in the last seat of the ...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2007
  • Length: :21
Virtuoso Voices - Canadian Brass (Jingle Bells)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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You can only dress up a well known piece of music so much, whether it's the Star Spangled Banner or the Christmas standard, "Jingle Bells." And so...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2007
  • Length: :25
Virtuoso Voices - Canadian Brass (Canadian Hanukah)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Hanukah music has not always been that easy to find on the radio or on CD in December, but there's never been a Hanukah music shortage with the Can...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2007
  • Length: :23
The Day the Music Died
From: Julie Beth Napolin
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A profile of a vinyl record store owner during his last week in business.

Bought by KSRQ, New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, NPR Station Showcase with PRX and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2007
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 6
Virtuoso Voices - Olli Mustonen (Rare Sibelius)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Although Jean Sibelius is best known for his symphonies and his violin concerto, he also dabbled in the world of short piano pieces. Olli Mustonen...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2007
  • Length: :29
Virtuoso Voices - Joshua Bell (Don't Worry)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Many recordings these days are made from live concert performances. The pressure and excitement of a live setting often brings out a more spontane...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: Aug 01, 2007
  • Length: :22
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Joshua Bell (Melody and Words)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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In a song or aria, what comes first - the melody or the words? It depends on whom you ask. A singer is almost guaranteed to say it's the words. ...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: Jul 31, 2007
  • Length: :24
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Joshua Bell (Perfect Violin Concerto)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Joshua Bell's relationship with the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto goes back more than 35 years. It's not just one of the world's favorite concertos ...

Bought by WITF


  • Added: Jul 30, 2007
  • Length: :21
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Yolanda Kondonassis (Salzedo's Sugar)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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 - Gil Shaham (It's Primal)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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 (Brahms is Humbling)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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 (Sunny Side Up)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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 (Fairy Tale)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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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


  • Added: May 11, 2007
  • Length: :19
  • Purchases: 2
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