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Beethoven String Quartet, Op. 59, No.2
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…

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Brahms Symphony No. 2 LIVE w/ The Aalborg Symphony
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

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Zemlinsky: The Mermaid
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

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Pergolesi Stabat Mater
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,…

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Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
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

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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

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Gustav Holst: The Planets
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

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Franck Symphony in D Minor
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

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Ravel and Falla: Echoes of Spain
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

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Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 LIVE w/ The Aalborg Symphony
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

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