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Performing music is probably one of the only professions where the longer you play, the better you get - the harder it gets. It's a phenomenon tha...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :18
If there were a "supporting musician" category in Mozart's Piano Concertos, it would probably be the wind section, especially the clarinets. When ...
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :15
- Purchases: 1
Some composers are influenced by other composers and earlier styles and trends. That was surely the case with Jean Sibelius, but conductor Herbert...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :41
With Peer Gynt, composer Edvard Grieg did not write in the big orchestral setting that made Beethoven's symphonies so popular. Conductor Herbert B...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :24
"Back Seat Drivers" are bad for those of us in the driver's seat, and they can be just as distracting for composers. Conductor Bernard Haitink tal...
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :29
Anton Bruckner's music is out of place, and maybe out of sync in our current fast-paced world. Conductor Bernard Haitink says Bruckner's luxurious...
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :24
Anton Bruckner's most popular work is his Symphony No.4, but conductor Bernard Haitink says he's under the spell of Bruckner's Symphony No. 7. Use...
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :19
We are exploring the Booker T Washington National Monument in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- Added: Sep 25, 2007
- Length: 12:39
- Added: Aug 04, 2007
- Length: 15:24
- Purchases: 1
Composer Franz Liszt is best known as a composer, virtuoso performer and ladies' man. Pianist Stephen Hough says you could also call him an innova...
Bought by WITF
- Added: Jul 31, 2007
- Length: :26
- Purchases: 1
Chopin's Ballades for piano scale some of the hefty dramatic and emotional heights that personify the "romantic" era of composition from the late 1...
Bought by WITF
- Added: Jul 31, 2007
- Length: :31
- Purchases: 1
If you've heard or read only one thing about Haydn, it's probably that he is the undisputed "Father of the Symphony". Conductor Roy Goodman thinks...
Bought by WITF
- Added: Jul 30, 2007
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 1
Sergie Rachmaninoff's music has been called everything from sappy and sentimental to over-done romantic gush. Pianist Stephen Hough strongly disag...
Bought by WITF and New England Public Media
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 2
Recycling one's own music was a common practice in Handel's day. Interestingly, or strangely, one of the best known choruses from Handel's Messiah...
Bought by WITF, New England Public Media, and KWAX
- Added: Nov 29, 2006
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 3
One-hour music intensive documentary looks back on Johnny Cash's historic 1969 concert at San Quentin State Prison.
Bought by KRCB 104.9, Prairie Public, KGLT, WNIJ, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more
- Added: Nov 01, 2006
- Length: 59:05
- Purchases: 13
