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You can make the piano sound loud and thunderous in two ways. There’s the “pounding and banging” school, but that can create a kind of musical mus...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :24
The term “virtuoso” has come to mean many things over the years. These days, it seems to describe someone who can play very, very fast, but not ne...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :28
Recordings serve as a permanent record, and most musicians only want their best performances preserved for a lifetime. While some seek perfection ...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :19
Brigg Fair is one of the shining musical lights from the composing pen of Frederick Delius. Mark Elder loves his music, but says it needs a little...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :28
How does a conductor or any musician for that matter, choose the right tempo. How fast, or how slow, should the music go? Conductor Mark Elder fi...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: :23
You may be old enough to remember American Bandstand with Dick Clark, where each week a couple of teenagers would rate a new record. From that seg...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :29
Cellists lament the fact that Mozart did not write a solo sonata or concerto for their instrument. Zuill Bailey says cellists got the next best th...
Bought by KUHF
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: :25
- Purchases: 1
Some music sounds and looks easy, but that’s often not the case. Violinist Gil Shaham says the Violin Concertos by Haydn are not for beginners. Us...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: :27
Performances by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra have been called “vivid” and “rhapsodic” by the New York Times, and it’s clear that Atlanta hosts on...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: :28
Betty Olivero’s Neharót Neharót was composed in 2006 in response to the pain and suffering of the war in Lebanon. It’s written for solo viola, two...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: :22
Violinist Gil Shaham calls the Octet for Strings by Mendelssohn “a mind blowing achievement.” What makes it so great? He says it’s a case, at lea...
- Added: Jul 28, 2010
- Length: :28
Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet has a new recording of the Gershwin Piano Concerto. It features the evocative, but rarely heard orchestration by Ferde...
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
- Length: :24
Three of the main figures are brought together in the final scene of Mozart’s Don Giovanni – they are the notorious, lustful and unsympathetic Don,...
- Added: Jun 28, 2010
- Length: :24
Mozart Piano Concertos are a regular part of Piotr Anderszewski’s repertoire. He loves the music but questions the notion that concertos feature a...
- Added: May 30, 2010
- Length: :25
When Bach asks the keyboard player to play fast, pianist Simone Dinnerstein responds with bright, even snappy tempos. She also remembers to come u...
- Added: Apr 27, 2010
- Length: :26
Pianist Menahem Pressler spent 53 years as the pianist of the legendary Beaux Arts Trio. He could easily have taken the soloist route, giving reci...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Mar 31, 2010
- Length: :23
- Purchases: 1
Claude Debussy's music helped define the impressionist movement in music. The fuzzy borders and pastel swashes of color that Monet and Cezanne bro...
- Added: Mar 31, 2010
- Length: :24
When British conductor Mark Elder wants to give his orchestra some directions for tempo and inflection, his native language falls short... especial...
- Added: Mar 31, 2010
- Length: :24
There's a lot going on in Bach – beautiful melodies, complex, and at times conflicting harmonies and intricate rhythms – all happening simultaneous...
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: :26
If you ever played piano, chances are you played at least one of the Two or Three-Part Inventions by Bach. Pianist Till Fellner says part of their...
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: :23
The New York Philharmonic commissioned composer John Adams to write a new work for the first anniversary of 9/11. Instead of writing music for tho...
Bought by WETS
- Added: Dec 31, 2009
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 1
Many elements, obvious and not so obvious, distinguish one instrument from the other. But the one thing that makes playing a percussion instrument...
- Added: Nov 30, 2009
- Length: :22
The PBS Series, "Keeping Score" returned with a series of three programs, each devoted to a single composer and one of their pivotal pieces of musi...
- Added: Sep 27, 2009
- Length: :26
One of the highpoints of Gustav Mahler's epic symphony – his Symphony No. 8, is a scene in the second part* of the Symphony. Three sopranos each t...
- Added: Sep 27, 2009
- Length: :28
Harpist Catrin recorded the Bach Goldberg Variations. Musical purists will likely raise some type of fuss over the "Goldbergs" being played on the...
- Added: Sep 26, 2009
- Length: :25
