PRX - Pieces for Tone: Polished

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This week on the show we have an ALL MUSIC episode sampling some tasty new tunes! We are going to hear from from Austria from Leyyda, another new o...

Bought by KHNS, KTNA, and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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
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This week on the show we sit down with Seward based musician Jonathan Le Shana who performs under the name Everwalden! We chat about his musical jo...

Bought by KHNS, KTNA, KNBA, and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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...

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  • 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...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 41
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Argentinean composers from the 19th and 20th centuries, all born in Argentina’s capital city of Buenos Aires.

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 36
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From 17th -century masters Juan García de Zéspedes and Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla to modern-day composers Guillermo Alvarez Navarro and Sergio Cárde...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 35
Caption: Ernesto Lecuona postage stamp
Whether making their homes in Spain, the United States, or never venturing from the Pearl of the Antilles, Cuba’s best-known and best-loved compos...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 36
Caption: Composer José Rolón
Melodic contemporary classics from three icons of the classical music of mid-20th century Mexico.

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 43
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...

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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: American Compassion, Credit: Bonnie Siegler
In this episode, we explore Medicare’s tenuous and little-known road to realization and the masterminds behind its conception.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 30, 2024
  • Length: 50:52
  • Purchases: 1
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...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 50
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From the Five Kingdoms of 13th-century Spain to the polyphony of Spanish Renaissance master Tomás Luis de Victoria, this week’s program explores Sp...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 51
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...

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  • 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 ...

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

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  • 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 ...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2024
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 47
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Learn how the queer community saved this little California town from ruin after a devastating flood, and how Guerneville became a thriving queer de...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2024
  • Length: 06:57