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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
Like most of his countrymen and women, Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski is proud of Chopin's Polish connection, but he says Chopin has other conne...
- Added: Feb 22, 2010
- Length: 01:13
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 is subtitled the “Ode to Joy.” His Symphony No. 8 doesn’t have a subtitle or nickname, but conductor Herbert Blomstedt ...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Dec 31, 2009
- Length: :22
- Purchases: 1
Ed Reinhart alias Earl Dixon, a marvelous pianist and local musician joins Radio Curious again in this edition. Reinhart is best know as the king o...
- Added: Nov 30, 2009
- Length: 28:23
Fiddle and Cello have a strong tradition in Scottish, 18th Century Music. In a reinvention of the classic musical marriage between big and small fi...
- Added: Nov 23, 2009
- Length: 57:52
There are coffee breaks, lunch breaks, and at one point in his career, conductor Lorin Maazel found the need to take a Mahler break. Use this 28 s...
- Added: Oct 30, 2009
- Length: :28
Since leaving the New York Philharmonic in 2009, conductor Lorin Maazel has been as busy as ever, but never too busy to look back at his seven year...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: :27
- Purchases: 1
No one's perfect – even virtuosos like violinist Joshua Bell make mistakes on stage. Throughout his career, he's learned to prioritize his flubs a...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: :26
- Purchases: 1
This year marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Newport Folk Festival.
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 06:18
To his fans his story is legendary. Ireland's Barry Moore began playing music with his older brother Christy when he was a young teenager. He rei...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Oct 09, 2009
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Everyone has a view on the "youth of today," including conductor Charles Dutoit. When it comes to today's youth, he's not a grouch, but he would l...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jul 27, 2009
- Length: :28
- Purchases: 1
Everyone, from the TV networks to Madison Avenue, wants the attention and especially the dollars from the 20 and 30-somethings. Even our orchestra...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jul 27, 2009
- Length: :26
- Purchases: 1
Thomas Stacy was the long time English horn and Oboe D'amore player with the New York Philharmonic. The Oboe D'amore is a longer, deeper sounding ...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jul 27, 2009
- Length: :20
- Purchases: 1
Thomas Stacy was the long time English horn and Oboe D'amore player with the New York Philharmonic. He usually sat in one of the back rows of the ...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jul 27, 2009
- Length: :26
- Purchases: 1
What's the key to a successful and highly creative performing career? Violinist and conductor Vladimir Spivakov explodes one myth and reveals his ...
Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
- Added: Jul 27, 2009
- Length: :19
- Purchases: 1
Preview "Inside Islam," a new series from the producers of "Here on Earth." In this edition: Scholar Mark Levine and journalist Suroosh Alvi catal...
- Added: Jul 17, 2009
- Length: :20
Preview "Inside Islam," a new series from the producers of "Here on Earth." In this edition: Scholar Mark Levine and journalist Suroosh Alvi catal...
- Added: Jul 17, 2009
- Length: 01:00
Preview "Inside Islam," a new series from the producers of "Here on Earth." In this edition: Scholar Mark Levine and journalist Suroosh Alvi catal...
- Added: Jul 17, 2009
- Length: 52:35
If you ever enter into a friendly competition over which art form is the most powerful, or holds the greatest potential, you might want to consider...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :27
One of composer Edvard Grieg's best known works is his Piano Concerto. While Grieg speaks on a mostly grand scale in the concerto, Leif Ove Andsne...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :22
Slaid Cleaves may not be the most well-known Texas musician, but he does boast some influential fans, including novelist Stephen King and public ra...
- Added: May 18, 2009
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
