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For your Fundraising campaign, violinist Joshua Bell asks your listeners to complete the Public Radio Listening-Funding circle. Use this 27 second...
Bought by WAUS FM, KZYX, KUHF, WSKG, North State Public Radio and more
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :27
- Purchases: 16
If you ever took piano lessons, you might be familiar with the Two and Three-Part "Inventions" by Bach. He wrote these short works for one of his ...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :24
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 Dutch violinist Janine Jansen has an all-Bach CD that includes the Partita Number 2. At the heart of the Partita is a slow and meditative move...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :24
Composer Jennifer Higdon is one of the busiest, most performed and most acclaimed American composers today. From her vantage point, she understand...
Bought by WETS
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 1
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
"Blue Cathedral," written by Jennifer Higdon is one of the most performed contemporary orchestral works in the U-S. She composed it with her broth...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :25
- Purchases: 1
Every performer has their calling card or label for their style of playing. Some are known for raising the roof with virtuoso flash and fireworks;...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :24
It took a nudge from his father to finally get Steven Isserlis to record the Bach Cello Suites. He was in his late 40's. For Steven Isserlis, the...
- Added: Jul 31, 2008
- Length: :18
How do you get your day started? A strong cup of coffee, maybe a good jog? A perfect, sugary doughnut? Morning Edition? Pianist Anne-Marie McDe...
- Added: Jul 31, 2008
- Length: :20
Is there anything more stressful than travel these days? When pianist Anne-Marie McDermott travels cross country to accompany violinists like Nadj...
- Added: Jul 31, 2008
- Length: :23
You've heard the saying "you can't judge a book by its cover." When it comes to Bach, Emerson String Quartet violinist, Eugene Drucker likes to as...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: :26
A chaconne is series of melodic variations played over a repeated sequence of notes and harmonies. One of the most famous chaconnes is heard in th...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: :24
Guitarist David Russell has a thing for French music. He likes the freedom. Use this 20 second clip to introduce guitarist David Russell playing ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: :20
There's a reason you hear some pieces of music everywhere - in elevators, hotel lobbies, while you're on hold with customer service and as the brid...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: :25
Arnold Schoenberg pioneered a composition method and style known as "12-tone music". Melodies and harmonies were created from a predetermined sequ...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :23
Riccardo Muti is the new (named May 2008) Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Previously he led the Philadelphia Orchestra and (the)...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :31
From a bone chilling graveyard scene, to the sound of a heart beat that slows down and finally stops beating, Prokofiev's First Violin Sonata has j...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :23
When the soloist and orchestra are playing a concerto, who's in charge? Is it the soloist, the conductor - the orchestra? Someone has to make sur...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :20
The soloist faces a number of temptations in the Sibelius Violin Concerto, especially the magical moments at the beginning. For Hilary Hahn, the t...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :27
Something unthinkable and unimaginable recently occurred in the classical music world. The Violin Concerto by the often maligned Arnold Schoenberg...
- Added: May 31, 2008
- Length: :25
There's often a story behind a story behind the music we love, but not always. Mozart never really tells us how he came to write his Violin Sonata...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: :28
When pianist Orli Shaham walks on stage to perform, she always says the same two words to her musical partner before playing the first note: "Have...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: :21
The trouble with cliches is that they tend to lose meaning after the 15th hearing. So instead of saying Mozart brilliantly practiced the art of "l...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: :25
Pianist Orli Shaham says Dvorak's music is like a beautiful onion - every time you peel off a layer, or look beyond the surface of the music, you a...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: :25
