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Barber Violin Concerto
Season 10 Episode 268
There are so many great apocryphal stories in the long history of classical music, from the reason Tchaikovsky wrote his Sixth Symphony to what famou…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
100 Years of Beethoven's Eroica (recordings)
Season 10 Episode 267
One of my favorite things about having Patreon sponsors is that they often suggest the most fascinating pieces and topics for shows. Adrian, who spon…
5 months, 1 week ago
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 incredib…
5 months, 3 weeks 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 b…
6 months, 1 week 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, bot…
6 months, 3 weeks 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…
7 months, 1 week 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…
7 months, 3 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 lik…
8 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 Mül…
8 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…
9 months ago