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Chopin wrote that the only thing more beautiful than one guitar is two guitars. On today’s show, we prove him right.

Bought by WRGY, KVNO, KSJE, WXXI Rochester, KRZA and more


  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 42
Caption: Guitarist Slava Grigoryan
On this edition of The Spanish Hour, we explore the genius of the composer known as the “Sarasate of the guitar.” Francisco Tárrega’s works are cha...

Bought by WCQS, KMUN, KVNO, WRGY, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 42
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A guitar potpourri, featuring works from Latin America and Spain by Joaquín Rodrigo, Astor Piazzolla, and Antonio Lauro.

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


  • Added: May 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 45
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...

Bought by WRTI, WRGY, KVNO, KRZA, KSJE and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 36
Caption: Pablo Picasso theater curtain for The Three-Cornered Hat, 1919
In 1904, Carlos Fernandez Shaw introduced Manuel de Falla to "The Three-cornered hat," Pedro Antonio de Alarcón’s satire of village life in Andaluc...

Bought by WRTI, WCQS, WXXI Rochester, KVNO, KRZA and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 45
Caption: Guitarist-composer Jorge Caballero
A program of well-known Spanish keyboard and orchestral treasures transcribed for guitar and heard anew.

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


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 41
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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: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 37
Caption: Flamenco dancers Laura del Sol and Antonio Gades
Love songs, nothing but love songs! Spanish love songs for El Día de los Enamorados – Valentine’s Day from Sephardic romances from the Middle Ages ...

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


  • Added: Feb 03, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 28
Caption: Quena (Andean bamboo flute)
From Joaquín Rodrigo to Ernesto Lecuona to Alberto Ginastera to Gabriela Lena Frank, old and new favorites from Spain and Latin America.

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


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 21
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Cuartetto Latinoamericano plays works by Piazzolla, Ponce, Villa Lobos, and more

Bought by KMXT, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, RadioFreePalmer, WCNY and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Paola Bordon
Interview with professional Tango dancer Paola Bordon, featuring musical highlights from her career.

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Sep 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Catching up on current jazz vocalists.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:25
Caption: Alea
Colombian singer, composer, and musician Alea, recorded at her home in Bronx, New York, during quarantine for COVID-19.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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Music and artists from Brazil performing Jobim, Moraes and more.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2020
  • Length: 57:05
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Extreme vintage hour openers, like bebop in a big band with Eckstine, rare Clifford Brown the other. Singers who would normally not mix, Carrie Smi...

Bought by KZUM, WVBI-LP, KPVL, KHNS, and WOUB


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 5
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Hear a track by Chilean singer Camila Moreno... a brilliant guitarist, as well as a fantastic lyricist who sings skillfully about politics, love an...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WART FM, and WKAR


  • Added: Feb 05, 2015
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 3
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On this show, we explore the elusive word Saudade. It has many definitions, including a melancholy nostalgia for something that perhaps has not ev...

Bought by WCNY, WART FM, and WKAR


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3
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NPR's Anastasia Tsioulcas recently returned from Womex 2014, an international world music festival with a bag of musical goodies that are anything ...

Bought by WART FM and WKAR


  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Carlos Santana uses music to reflect on his career in this week's episode of Alt.Latino. , Credit: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images
This month the Latin music legend publishes his memoirs, The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story To Light. Alt.Latino grabs him for a rare interview ...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WART FM, WKAR, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Cafe Tacvba's 1994 album Re changed Latin music as we know it. , Credit: Courtesy of Cafe Tacvba
This week is an all around treat: we have some of our favorite new artists releasing new music that is driving us crazy. We also are celebrating th...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WART FM, WKAR, and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Mongo Santamaria
Mongo Santamaria was best known for "Watermelon Man" and "Afro Blue". He was a percussionist and Cuban. He will most likely be remembered as the be...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, and KVMR


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 55:55
  • Purchases: 4
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World class trombonist Conrad Herwig explains how he gets inspired to put a Latin rhythm under jazz classics.

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Apr 03, 2009
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Omar Sosa
Pianist Omar Sosa explores the roots of Cuban and African music. A visit to his home in Barcelona.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2009
  • Length: 06:59
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Interview & music selections with Janis Siegel, A Thousand Beautiful Things...

Bought by WVPE


  • Added: Mar 30, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1