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Beethoven String Quartet, Op. 59, No.2
Season 11 Episode 278
I'm always tickled by composer trivia questions, like which standard canon works begin in a major key and end in a minor key? I'll give you one, but…
11 hours ago
Brahms Symphony No. 2 LIVE w/ The Aalborg Symphony
Season 10 Episode 277
Brahms spent much of his adult life battling with his ambition to write the next great symphony and his terror at the shadow of Beethoven standing be…
2 weeks ago
Zemlinsky: The Mermaid
Season 11 Episode 276
The story of Alexander von Zemlinsky's The Mermaid begins with a passionate love affair and ends in heartbreak of the most unabashedly big-R Romantic…
1 month ago
Pergolesi Stabat Mater
Season 10 Episode 275
Many aspects of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's life seem relatively normal when it comes to composers of the Baroque era. He was prolific, died young,…
1 month, 1 week ago
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
Season 10 Episode 274
We humans seem to love comeback stories, and there is no comeback quite as compelling in the classical music world as Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Con…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Handel Messiah w/ Aram Demirjian
Season 10 Episode 273
A piece that I have been asked to cover probably a dozen times is Handel's Messiah. It's a piece I love, but a piece that I've never conducted or pla…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Gustav Holst: The Planets
Season 10 Episode 272
Mr. Holst, wherever you are, I apologize in advance for what I'm about to say. From my research, I know you resented this fact, but unfortunately, I …
3 months ago
Franck Symphony in D Minor
Season 10 Episode 271
In the 1960s, Leonard Bernstein famously helped to popularize the music of a then relatively obscure composer, Gustav Mahler. His work, as well as th…
3 months, 1 week ago
Ravel and Falla: Echoes of Spain
Season 10 Episode 270
Nowadays it's hard to imagine Maurice Ravel as a "bad-boy" revolutionary, a member of a group whose name can be loosely translated as The Hooligans. …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 LIVE w/ The Aalborg Symphony
Season 10 Episode 269
Longtime listeners of Sticky Notes know that Shostakovich's 10 symphony was the inaugural piece covered on the show. It's been 8 years(!) since that …
4 months ago