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The Life and Music of Grazyna Bacewicz
Season 10 Episode 266
The great Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski said this after the premature death of his contemporary Grazyna Bacewicz: “She was born with an incredible wealth of musical talent, which she succeeded t…
Published on 1 day, 7 hours ago
Sticky Notes meets You'll Hear It
Season 10 Episode 265
I had such a wonderful time joining the jazz podcast You'll Hear It! We talked about the meeting of jazz and classical music, a topic I've explored before, but never in this much depth and never with…
Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Impressions in Blue: Ravel & Gershwin
Season 10 Episode 264
In the mid-1920s, Maurice Ravel wrote a letter to the legendary composition teacher Nadia Boulanger. Boulanger’s class was a mecca for composers, both young and old, and musicians from all over the w…
Published on 1 month ago
Beethoven Piano Sonata in B Flat Major, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier" - Part 2
Season 10 Episode 263
There is a special category when it comes to Beethoven; a catalogue that doesn’t include complete symphonies, sonatas, concerti, string quartets, etc., but just single movements. This is the catalogu…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Beethoven Piano Sonata in B♭ major, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier" - Part 1
Season 10 Episode 262
Beethoven once wrote to his publisher: “What is difficult, is also beautiful, good, great, and so forth. Hence everyone will realize that this is the most lavish praise that can be bestowed, since wh…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
Season 10 Episode 261
The collaboration between Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht is rightly legendary. The two men could not have been more different from each other, and like the Brahms/Joachim relationship I mentioned in m…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
The Ravel Sound with Norbert Müllemann and Stefan Knüpfer
Season 10 Episode 260
I so enjoyed making this latest episode in my collaboration with G Henle Publishers. I talked with two absolute experts in their fields, Norbert Mülleman and Stefan Knüpfer, all about how to edit Ra…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Dvorak Violin Concerto
Season 10 Episode 259
Admit it: if you're a fan of classical music—or even just a regular concertgoer—you might have glanced at the title of this episode and done a double take. The Dvořák Violin Concerto? Not the Cello C…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Brahms Double Concerto
Season 10 Episode 258
It’s entirely possible that we would not know the name of Johannes Brahms very well if Brahms hadn’t met Joseph Joachim as a very young man. Joachim, who was one of the greatest violinists of all tim…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Copland Clarinet Concerto
Season 10 Episode 257
The commission for a new Clarinet Concerto from the great American composer Aaron Copland came from a rather unlikely source: Benny Goodman, the man known as the King of Swing. Goodman was one of the…
Published on 4 months ago