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In soprano Anna Netrebko’s recording of Russian Romances, she introduces us to the not-as-well-known sides of two well-known composers – Rimsky-Kor...
- Added: May 30, 2010
- Length: :26
Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski champions two composers from his country – Frederic Chopin and Karol Szymanowski. Like Chopin, Szymanowski’s mus...
- Added: May 30, 2010
- Length: :22
The Piano Sonata No 2 by Chopin is best known for the funeral march in the third movement. That march has been immortalized from its appearances i...
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: :23
After a stormy and almost raucous orchestral introduction, the clarinet makes a quiet, almost innocent entrance in the Concertino for Clarinet by C...
- Added: Apr 30, 2009
- Length: :31
Clearwater acts as a model for letting children be active and interactive with nature on the Hudson River. Welcome aboard
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 01:46
There's your driver's license, your passport, and if you're clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, your clarinet sound is another proof of I-D. Use this 2...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :26
Debussy's First Rhapsody for Clarinet began as a contest piece for students at the Paris Conservatory. That explains the presence of the virtuoso ...
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
- Length: :26
Carl Maria von Weber wrote quite a bit of solo music for the clarinet, and much of it is highly dramatic and virtuosic. Weber tended to think of i...
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
- Length: :22
There are 161 recordings of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, 162 recordings of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. Joshua Bell has recorded both of t...
- Added: Nov 14, 2008
- Length: :18
Pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy is not quite sure what's more amazing - that Beethoven wrote so many remarkable pieces of music, or that h...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :22
The musician's life is a humbling up and down journey towards perfection, or at least musical expression on the highest level. If you don't get it...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :27
Leaving Suriname as a young boy with dreams and hope for another life.
- Added: Aug 28, 2008
- Length: 19:21
Back in the early 1990's, a French researcher introduced a theory known as the "Mozart Effect." It advanced the idea that listening to Mozart's mu...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :23
There's an old saying that says it's not the destination, but the journey that counts. In the case of the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2, pianist Ema...
- Added: Feb 29, 2008
- Length: :26
Finding ways to keep music fresh is a performing musician's ongoing challenge, especially with a work they've played hundreds of times. Cellist Yo...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :28
The Finnish Four Seasons are a magnificent gift of nature, according to Finnish pianist Olli Mustonnen. He says that makes him well suited to play...
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :23
Violinist Gil Shaham says Prokofiev "never wrote a bad note." But in Prokofiev's First Violin Sonata, Shaham is drawn more to the Sonata's back st...
Bought by WITF
- Added: May 30, 2007
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 1
While Alan Hovhaness' music has a distinct and recognizable sound and texture, it's the sum of many different cultures and nationalities. Harpist ...
Bought by WITF and New England Public Media
- Added: Mar 01, 2007
- Length: :35
- Purchases: 2
