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The Life and Music of Florence Price
Season 8 Episode 152
Today I've got a pretty special show for you. It's set up in two parts, with the first part featuring an interview, and the second part will be a mor…
3 years, 9 months ago
Mahler Symphony No. 9, Part 4
Season 8 Episode 151
Mahler once said this to Bruno Walter, his protege and great advocate of Mahler's works: "What one makes music from is still the whole—that is the fe…
3 years, 9 months ago
Mahler Symphony No. 9, Part 3
Season 8 Episode 150
It's easy to forget that Mahler, for all of his ubiquitous success nowadays, was much better known as a conductor during his life than as a composer.…
3 years, 10 months ago
Mahler Symphony No. 9, Part 2
Season 8 Episode 149
Remember where we ended in the first movement of Mahler's 9th symphony? After a 27 minute farewell which touched on the two poles of rage and accepta…
3 years, 10 months ago
Mahler Symphony No. 9, Part 1
Season 8 Episode 148
Two events, occurring on the same day, drove Mahler to the brink. His daughter Maria died at the age of just 4, and Mahler himself was diagnosed with…
3 years, 10 months ago
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4
Season 8 Episode 147
Shostakovich is one of the easiest composers to do podcasts about because his life and his music is full of such incredible stories. But as easy as i…
3 years, 11 months ago
Barber Adagio For Strings
Season 8 Episode 146
Barber's Adagio seems to access a deep well of sadness, heartache, passion, and nostalgia in the listener that is very difficult to explain. As doze…
3 years, 11 months ago
Schubert Symphony No. 8, "Unfinished"
Season 8 Episode 145
There are many reasons why Schubert's Unfinished Symphony remains a mystery to this day - the literally unfinished form, the unusual way of the symp…
3 years, 11 months ago
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2
Season 8 Episode 144
Brahms' two piano concertos could not possibly be any more different. The first, written when Brahms was just 25, is dramatic, stormy, and impulsive…
3 years, 11 months ago
Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead
Season 8 Episode 143
How do you orchestrate a painting? How do you take the detail and the visual imagery of a painting and translate that into something that is so vivid…
3 years, 11 months ago