PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative
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Constellating harmonies from everyday noise, Aspect shifts the perspective from the mundane to the stars’ collective view of Earth.
- Added: May 08, 2009
- Length: 01:00
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
On this edition of "A Musician's Life" Tracey Tanenbaum speaks with Teddy Thompson. He's still best known as the son of folk legends Richard and L...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Apr 28, 2009
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 2
On this edition of A Musician's Life with Tracey Tanenbaum folk-rock icons Emily Saliers and Amy Ray muse about their different musical and persona...
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Apr 07, 2009
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 3
Three Bach playing pianists talk about a possible spiritual presence in music by Bach. Use this 59 second "Mix" for Bach's Birthday (March 21) or ...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :44
Old fashioned music and humorous social commentary
- Added: Jan 27, 2009
- Length: 59:00
Did you know that Okie From Muskogee was a satire?
- Added: Jan 10, 2009
- Length: 01:12
Pianist Helene Grimaud took a somewhat uncommon approach to Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5. She decided to play one side against the other. Use...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :25
Bach's music for organ, harpsichord and violin is among the most frequently transcribed and re-adapted music of our time. On pianist Helene Grimau...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :27
What are the secrets of Bach and his music's ability to reach a wide variety of musical tastes? He had all the skills, technique and other musical...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :23
Even though online access has brought different parts of the world closer together, there are still distinct continental approaches to playing spec...
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: :24
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
Among the many colors, sounds or inflections a clarinetist can draw from their instrument is a sense of nostalgia. That makes the Autumn Song by T...
- Added: Dec 30, 2008
- Length: :32
Conductor Bernard Haitink talks about the musical strength and support he gets when he conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In addition to bei...
- Added: Dec 04, 2008
- Length: :22
Students of the shakuhachi flute learn about music, listening, and presence in their daily lives.
- Added: Dec 04, 2008
- Length: 06:37
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
There's much to like, if not love, about Chopin, whether you're a listener or a performer. For pianist Lang Lang, Chopin is the pianist's best fri...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :23
Performers, their teachers and their audience demand perfection. Since perfection really can't be achieved, that puts musicians in a compromising ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :26
- Added: Oct 16, 2008
- Length: 48:30
One boy's unlikely connection with the music of northwest feminists
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KFAI Minneapolis, WGDR, KUOW, PRX Remix and more
- Added: Oct 10, 2008
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 6
Crispell combines classical training with great jazz skills
Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Oct 07, 2008
- Length: 08:05
- Purchases: 2
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
