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Caption: Luxembourgian pianist Miguel Baselga
Hear famous Spanish and Mexican composers and their not so famous works. With pianist Miguel Baselga, The State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra, and B...

Bought by KVNO, WRGY, GCR (Global Community Radio), WXXI Rochester, KRZA and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:26
  • Purchases: 40
Caption: Paquito D'Rivera
A child prodigy, the Cuban-born clarinetist and saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera is well-known equally in both the jazz and classical worlds. We’ll hea...

Bought by KUER, WRGY, GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO, KRZA and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 51
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Classical and traditional music of Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Paraguay, as well as a work by a North-American composer with Peruvian, Chinese, Lit...

Bought by KUER, WRTI, New Hampshire Public Radio, KSJE, KRZA and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 22
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No discussion of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema would be complete without talking about composer Silvestre Revueltas. We’ll hear selections from...

Bought by KMUN, KUCO, WRTI, New Hampshire Public Radio, KSJE and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 41
Caption: Alberto Ginastera with pianist Barabara Nissman
Works by Alberto Ginastera, the self-described “man of Latin America” and one of South America’s most important and innovative composers of the twe...

Bought by KMUN, KUCO, WRTI, KSJE, KVNO and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 43
Caption: Uruguayan Composer Enrique Crespo
20th-century chamber music for winds and small orchestra from Panama and Uruguay.

Bought by KUCO, WRTI, KSJE, GCR (Global Community Radio), Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 31
Caption: Composer and Conductor Tania León
Music by some of Cuba’s best-known and best-loved composers, all born in Havana.

Bought by KUER, GCR (Global Community Radio), KPIP-LP, KMUN, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 13
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20th-century South American classcis from Argentina’s Carlos Guastavino to Chile’s Juan Antonio Sánchez to Venezuela’s Evencio Castellanos.

Bought by KSJE, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRTI, KMUN, WCQS and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 37
Caption: Carlos Chávez
Romantic works by two of Mexico’s great modern masters: the Trio romántico of Manuel María Ponce and the Symphony No. 4 of Carlos Chávez.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), WRTI, KUCO, KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 39
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From Cuba’s Joaquín Nin and Leo Brouwer to Argentina’s Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Golijov to Uruguay’s Alfonso Broqua, music by Latin American com...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WRTI, KSJE, WCQS, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 41
Caption: The Spanish Mozart" Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga
Spain's Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga was born 50 years to the day after the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Like Mozart, Arriaga was a prodigy who ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KSJE, KRZA, KVNO, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 51
Caption: Composer José Luis Greco, Credit: Sandra Gallardo
This week’s program comprises two works from opposite ends of the 20th century: the complete music to the 1919 ballet El Sombrero de tres picos (Th...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KVNO, WRGY, KRZA, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 50
Caption: Ara Malikian
An array of some of the great Spanish works written for violin in the second half of the nineteenth century. Works by Sarasate, Monasterio, and Fer...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO, KSJE, KRZA and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 50
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Not to be confused with the popular operettas and lyric operas popular in Spain from the 1850s through the mid-20th century, the zarzuelas on this ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KVNO, WRGY, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSJE and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 47
Caption: Del Sol String Quartet
Musical colors of Spain by Spain's modern Masters

Bought by WRTI, WCQS, WRGY, KUER, KVNO and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 40
Caption: Guitarist and Composer Fernando Sor
In the 19th century, the guitar was still thought of as something heard at village fairs, an easy to strum instrument, meant for nothing more than ...

Bought by KUER, KMUN, WCQS, WRTI, KVNO and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2024
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 47
Caption: Jorge Morel
This week, we focus on Argentine guitarist and composer Jorge Morel, with recordings of his works performed by David Starobin, David Russell, Hilar...

Bought by WCQS, KUER, New Hampshire Public Radio, KVNO, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 30
Caption: "La jota" by Joaquín Sorolla , Aragón (1914)
Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. Joaquín Rodrigo believed this to be the best definition ever given of the Spanish gu...

Bought by WRTI, New Hampshire Public Radio, KVNO, WRGY, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 45
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A guitar potpourri, featuring works from Latin America and Spain by Joaquín Rodrigo, Astor Piazzolla, and Antonio Lauro.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WCQS, KMUN, KUER, WRGY and more


  • Added: May 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 46
Caption: Argentine mezzo Bernarda Fink
The tango may be Argentina's best-known musical export, but it's far from the only musical expression to be discovered. On this edition of The Span...

Bought by WCQS, WRTI, KMUN, KVNO, WRGY and more


  • Added: May 05, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 48
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about the book "Songs of Earth," which is an updated version of song collector/folklori...

  • Added: May 13, 2023
  • Length: 27:30
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With the MET OPERA dark in February I needed something to do. Jazz is always there and so marvelous in New York. Yet… I searched for a quick secon...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 58:15
Caption: The Beatles arrived at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, August 1965, Credit: Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society
August 21, 1965, the Beatles invaded Metropolitan Stadium for their first ever Minnesota concert, bringing together a high school photographer with...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Oudyano, Credit: Margie O'Loughlin
Who would have thought that an Arabic music based oud player and an American pianist schooled in jazz and roots traditions could interact musically...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2017
  • Length: 06:01
Caption: Moroccan musicians performing with double-ended rattles in Rabat
Musicians from across the Arab World join Georges Collinet to demonstrate musical culture of diverse Arabic nations.

Bought by WSLR, WSLR, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 07, 2009
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 3