“We live in a time I think not of mainstream, but of many streams, or even, if you insist upon a river of time, that we have come to a delta, maybe even beyond delta to an ocean which is going back to the skies.” -John Cage This quote, I believe, truly embodies the idea of music today. Yet, this quote is even more applicable to world of “classical” music. There are so many different avenues of new classical music, that one must ask oneself, “That’s classical?” That is the idea that we try an ...
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The finest artists on their latest albums and in-depth discussions with leading writers - a weekly exploration of classical music
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This podcast aims to explore classical music through entertaining discussions about composers, musical works and various readings. Please visit www.unexaminedpartial.com
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Two W*nkers: discuss Stravinsky, dissonance and recently un-earthed rare Cutting Crew demoes.
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You’ll love Open Rehearsal in London! This exciting programme of events, running from Friday 29th September to Sunday 1st October '06, will enable you to sample the world-class music, theatre and dance that London offers - for free. If you’ve never set foot inside a concert hall, or you’d like a bit of inspiration about what to do, here’s a cut-out-and-keep A to Z guide to classical music and the Open Rehearsal weekend. For more information, visit www.openrehearsal.co.uk
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Exclusive insights into the world of string playing, teaching and instrument making from The Strad magazine: Essential reading for the string music world since 1890
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Founded in 1891, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the greatest orchestras in the world. In collaboration with the best conductors and guest artists on the international music scene, the CSO performs well over one hundred concerts each year at its downtown home, Symphony Center, and at the Ravinia Festival on Chicago’s North Shore, where it is in residency each summer. Music lovers outside Chicago enjoy the sounds of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through best-s ...
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Get closer to the Edinburgh International Festival with FestivalSoundBites from sinfinimusic.com. Explore the music with introductions, interviews and clips from the artists involved.
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Cantata Profana is a fearless vocal and instrumental chamber ensemble with visionary programming, a flair for theater, and a gluttonous appetite for every century of music.
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Join Bruce Adolphe, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Resident Lecturer, for investigations and insights into chamber music masterworks. Beloved by regulars and a revelation to first-timers for their depth, accessibility, and brilliance, we dig into the ICM lecture recording archive to share our favorite lectures with you.
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Hear more. Feel more. Be more! Come with me and dive into some great classical music. For over 1000 years great musicians have explored what it means to live, love, die and everything in between: asking all our deep and universal questions. Escape the cacophony - the noise of your brain and daily life; tune into the music, your feelings and emotions ‘good’ and ‘bad’ …and find the space, stillness and love that underpins everything. NB: May include loud noise, surprises, challenges, cacophono ...
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CSO Program Notes: Mozart & Stravinsky
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The versatile Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider leads the CSO as soloist in Mozart’s richly melodic Violin Concerto No. 2 and Kreisler’s wistful Liebesleid. Trading violin bow for baton, Szeps-Znaider conducts Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite, a neoclassical gem that shines a spotlight on the orchestra’s principal players, and Mozart’s Prague Symphony, a work of …
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Playlist: Caroline Shaw, Fenella Humphreys - In Manus Tuas Rodney Sharman, Paramorph Collective - for guitar Gregory Harris, Sirius Quartet - String Quartet No. 1 'Landscapes' Brett Dean, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra - Piano Concert 'Gneixendorf Music' A Winter Journey Peter Vigh, Maat Saxophone Quartet - Metamorphose Bekah Simms, Crash Ensembl…
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Brindley Sherratt on his debut song recital 'Fear No More'
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The British bass Brindley Sherratt has released his first solo album, ‘Fear No More’, a Delphian recording, with Julius Drake at the piano. One of the UK’s most distinguished singers, and with an international reputation on the great concert and operatic stages, Sherratt talks to James Jolly about this new, and belated, chapter in his musical caree…
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Playlist: Rose Bolton, Instruments of Happiness - Nine Kinds of Joy Tan Dun, New Century Chamber Orchestra - Double Concerto for Violin, Piano, & String Orchestra Dennis Thompson II, Marcus Eley - TranscenDance for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano Elizabeth Raum, Quatuor Molinari , Vincent Boilard - Searching for Sophia Cliff Eidelman, Royal Scottish Nat…
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CSO Program Notes: Sheherazade
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Elim Chan leads Rimsky-Korsakov’s sumptuous symphonic suite Sheherazade, inspired by the legendary heroine and tales of One Thousand and One Nights. Paul Jacobs, “a virtuoso of dazzling technical acumen” (The New York Times), performs Barber’s Toccata festiva, an exuberant showcase for organ containing echoes of J.S. Bach.Learn more: cso.org/perfor…
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James Ehnes on Leonard Bernstein and John Williams
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Violinist James Ehnes talks about his new recording for Pentatone of Leonard Bernstein's Serenade and John Williams's Violin Concerto No 1.
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Playlist: Julie Cooper, Her Ensemble - Moonglade in Jet Black India Gailey - Universal Veil Louis Karchin, Carson Cooman - Processions Paul Reale, Yale Symphony Orchestra - Cello Concerto 'Live Free or Die' Peteris Vasks, Awadagin Pratt - Castillo Interior Maria Grenfell, Claire Edwardes - Strings & Wings Jonathan Nangle, Crash Ensemble - Sotto Voc…
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CSO Program Notes: CSO x Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
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Two mighty orchestras present a rousing, jazz-meets-classical event. Discover selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, alternating between the original orchestral version performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and imaginative new jazz arrangements presented by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Both ensembles join forces for a selectio…
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Nathan Williamson and James Gilchrist on the songs of Thomas Pitfield
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Thomas Pitfield, born in Bolton in 1903 and whose life stretched to the very end of the 20th century – he died in 1999 – is one of those polymaths who embraced numerous different outlets: he was a composer, a poet, an illustrator, a calligrapher, a cabinet maker and a teacher. He is probably better known for the people he knew and taught – includin…
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CSO Program Notes: Chopin & Tchaikovsky
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Tugan Sokhiev conducts Tchaikovsky’s youthful First Symphony, nicknamed Winter Dreams for its cozy evocation of Russian winters. Chopin’s exuberant Piano Concerto No. 1 features Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, described by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as “a one-woman powerhouse” who “stole the show.” Andrzej Panufnik’s Heroic Overture, composed in…
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Playlist: Linda Caitlin Smith, Thin Edge New Music Collective - Wanderer Julia Wolfe - Oxygen Dani Howard, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Coalescense David Fennessy, Crash Ensemble - JACK Timo Andres, Metropolis Ensemble - The Blind Banister Judd Greenstein, Awadagin Pratt, A Far Cry, Roomful of Teeth - Still Point Pedro H. da Silva, Acad…
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Kirill Gerstein on 'Music in the Time of War'
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Kirill Gerstein’s new album, timed for release mid-way between the anniversary of the death of Claude Debussy (March 25) and Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (April 24), pairs music by Debussy and the Armenian, Komitas. Both composers were profoundly affected by the death and destruction surrounding them during the First World War, and both respon…
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Episode 115: designing your own musical education as an adult learner with violinist Julia Reddy
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Julia Reddy is the host of the Violin Class Podcast and teaches a studio comprising solely of adult learners. She and online editor Davina had a chat about how adult students can be proactive and design their own musical curriculum beyond the practice room - a completely different game from teaching children. What are your favourite ways to enrich …
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Playlist: Latitude 49 & Annika Socolofsky - Like a Diamond Emily Doolittle, Luminos Ensemble - Grow Old Along with Me Keyan Emami, ICOT Chamber Orchestra - Kian in Rainbows Larysa Kuzmenko, Sinfonia Toronto - Skartaris Brian Cherney, Quatuor Molinari - In the Stillness of the Summer Wind Robert Muller-Hartmann, ARC Ensemble - Sonata for Two Violins…
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Klaus Mäkelä on recording Stravinsky in Paris: From the Archive
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Klaus Mäkelä has been named Riccardo Muti's successor at the helm of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a role he assumes in 2027 alongside the post of Chief Conductor of Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Meanwhile, he remains committed to his two European orchestras, the Orchestre de Paris and the Oslo Philharmonic. Following his Decca debut…
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The 19th century’s most enduring oratorio, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, sung here in English, depicts the story of the biblical prophet Elijah, complete with his ascent to heaven on a flaming chariot. James Conlon leads the assembled forces, including Chicago favorite Lucas Meachem in the mighty title role and the Chicago Symphony Chorus performing the wo…
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CSO Program Notes: Klaus Mäkelä & Sol Gabetta
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Sol Gabetta, whose “enthusiastic music-making and animated style are completely infectious” (Classical Voice), makes her CSO debut in Shostakovich’s captivating Cello Concerto No. 1 — a riveting journey through themes of defiance, sorrow and triumph. Electrifying conductor Klaus Mäkelä frames the program with Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony, a searin…
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Playlist: Carmen Braden, Matt Haimovitz - Her Arranged Marriage to Oranges Sadie Harrison, Kreutzer Quartet - Taking Flight Gemma Peacocke, Third Coast Percussion - Death Wish Elis Hallik, Tallin Chamber Orchestra - Concerto for Two Violins & String Orchestra "Stroicheia" Michael Lee, Juventas New Music Ensemble - 2020: Danse Macabre Tobin Stokes, …
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Exploring Schubert
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This month's Gramophone Podcast explores the life and music of Franz Schubert. Editor Martin Cullingford talks to Richard Wigmore about this most remarkable of composers, one whose finest works, notably in the song, piano and chamber music genres, are today held to be among music's most beloved creations.…
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Episode 114: exploring resources and finding your teaching style with cellist Guy Johnston
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Many of us as string players will find ourselves teaching in one way or another throughout our careers. We learn and pass on this great legacy of tradition that has gone before us. But what else informs our teaching? How do we find our groove, so to speak, as teachers and players? Cellist Guy Johnston spoke with online editor Davina about finding h…
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Paavo Järvi on Mendelssohn's symphonies
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Paavo Järvi's latest recording project adds the five Mendelssohn symphonies to his substantial catalogue. Alpha Classics has released the new set which features the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. James Jolly caught up with Paavo Järvi recently by Zoom to talk about the cycle, but also to talk about the conductor's passion for recording the complete sym…
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CSO Program Notes: The Music of Bach
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Be transported to Zimmermann’s Coffee House, the Leipzig café where J.S. Bach introduced many of his instrumental works. CSO Concertmaster Robert Chen leads the dazzling Third Brandenburg Concerto, kaleidoscopic Violin Concerto in E Major and buoyant and graceful Orchestral Suite No. 1. Chen also teams up with Principal Oboe William Welter in Bach’…
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CSO Program Notes: Mahler 4
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Susanna Mälkki conducts a thought-provoking program anchored by Gustav Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. This celestial score, which includes a cryptic dance of death, is announced with sleigh bells and a rustic melody that ends with a child’s view of heaven, delivered here by soprano Ying Fang. Principal Flute Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson is the soloist in a…
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Rebecca Dale on her new album 'Night Seasons'
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Hattie Butterworth is joined by composer Rebecca Dale for this week's Gramophone Podcast to explore her new album of works for cello and choir with cellists Steven Isserlis and Guy Johnston and the choir Tenebrae, out now on Signum Classics. More about Rebecca Dale
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Episode 113: Uncovering Ysaÿe’s lost works with violinist Philippe Graffin
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If you’ve read our February 2024 issue, you would’ve read our feature on the long-lost work by Ysaÿe, his Poème concertant. Violinist Philippe Graffin has recorded the work that had been undiscovered for more than a century – he joins online editor Davina in this episode to speak about uncovering Ysaÿe’s forgotten works, the history and inspiration…
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Dalia's Mixtape: Anna Meredith's Nautilus
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Dalia Stasevska, Chief Conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, has launched a new project, ‘Dalia’s Mixtape’, for Platoon. Leading her BBC orchestra, she has recorded ten works by ten modern composers, each shedding a new and different light on the symphony orchestra and what it can do.…
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Episode 112: making musical choices with violist and composer Jessica Meyer
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How do you feel about improvising on a stringed instrument? While there are many musicians who specialise in this craft, you wouldn’t have to search far for string players where mention of the words ‘improv’ and ‘solo’ is enough to strike fear into their hearts. Violist and composer Jessica Meyer spoke to online editor and cellist Davina about how …
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CSO Program Notes: Also sprach Zarathustra
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Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra — with its iconic opening popularized in 2001: A Space Odyssey — sets the tone for a program of dazzling, otherworldly pieces. Bartók’s pantomime ballet, The Miraculous Mandarin, is a lurid, supernatural tale rendered in arresting colors. Czech violinist Josef Špaček takes on Martinů’s tuneful and vivacious Violin C…
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The 12 Ensemble's new album, Metamorphosis
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This week on the Gramophone podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford is joined by the co-founders of the 12 Ensemble – cellist Max Ruisi and violinist Eloisa-Fleur Thom – to talk about their fascinating new album on the Platoon Label, Metamorphosis, featuring music by Edmund Finnis, Claude Vivier, Oliver Leith and Richard Strauss.…
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Episode 111: juggling orchestral and solo playing with double bassist Michael Rieber
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Double bassist Michael Rieber is the first solo double bass player from the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in Hamburg. Not only does he hold a principal position in one of Europe’s top orchestras, he’s also released a recording of French works called Nuits Blanches. How does Michael find the time to take on two very high-calibre jobs and projects? M…
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Handel's Theodora, with Jonathan Cohen
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For this week's Gramophone Podcast, Jonathan Cohen, conductor of Arcangelo, joins Editor Martin Cullingford to talk about his new recording on the Alpha label of Handel's powerful late oratorio, Theodora, a work Cohen describes as Handel at 'his very finest and most inspired'.
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