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Season 8 Episode 142
While the inspiration for the show today is likely obvious, I'm also very happy to get the chance to share this wonderful music with you, separate fr…
4 years ago
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
Season 8 Episode 141
In 1888, Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony was premiered. It was enthusiastically received by the audience, and by Tchaikovsky's friends. But Tchaikovsky's …
4 years ago
Fauré Requiem
Season 8 Episode 140
In 1902, the great French composer Gabriel Faure said this: "It has been said that my Requiem does not express the fear of death and someone has call…
4 years ago
Stenhammar Symphony No. 2
Season 8 Episode 139
The year is 1910. Imagine that you are a young composer, and the music world is in flux all around you. Mahler is dying, and with his death many agre…
4 years ago
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade
Season 8 Episode 138
Rimsky-Korsakov, above anything else, is regarded as a master of orchestration, the art of creating orchestral sound and color. As Rachmaninoff said …
4 years, 1 month ago
R. Nathaniel Dett: The Ordering of Moses
Season 8 Episode 138
In May of 1937, R. Nathaniel Dett's oratorio "The Ordering of Moses" was premiered by the Cincinnati Symphony. The performance was carried live on na…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Music of Ingram Marshall
Season 8 Episode 137
"I never really thought of them as walls. I thought of them more as boundaries. Walls are a much more serious matter. You're not supposed to be able …
4 years, 1 month ago
Sibelius Symphony No. 5
Season 8 Episode 136
Sibelius never gets mentioned on "most" lists, the most innovative, modernistic, romantic, beautiful, conservative, ugly, violent, peaceful etc. In f…
4 years, 1 month ago
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, Part 2
Season 8 Episode 135
Last week I told you the story of the genesis of Shostakovich's 5th symphony. We talked politics, but we also talked about just the music itself. Tod…
4 years, 2 months ago
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, Part 1
Season 8 Episode 134
Shostakovich's life and career was so wrapped up with his relationship to the Soviet government that it is sometimes hard to appreciate that, all els…
4 years, 2 months ago