Best Sibelius Podcasts (2024)

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6 Map of Memory - a talk with graffiti artist EGS 39:01

3M ago39:01

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Have you ever wondered what goes on in the mind of a graffiti artist? How it is to live in anonymity as an artist, and how a graffiti artist regards creativity and the permanence of art that lives on public walls. Join us on an adventure into the imaginary world of EGS who will take you on a journey under the skin of the city. Discover the Republic…

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GVP 27: Is Chlorella Nature's Super Supplement? 24:31

3M ago24:31

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Chlorella v Spirulina, Barley Grass v Wheat Grass. Where do you start with green powders? Today we compare all of these and put the microscope on Chlorella. From B12 to Iron, Brain Health to Heart Health, and local vs internationally sourced, all parts of the green powder spectrum get covered with Biogenesis Founder and Managing Director, Colin McG…

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5 Henry Moore and the Archer 23:00

1+ y ago23:00

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Henry Moore, the master of monumental abstract sculpture, is regarded as one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. In this episode you will hear a special story behind one of Moore’s most unique pieces, The Archer, and how it ended up on permanent display at the Didrichsen Art Museum. The museum holds the largest Henry Moore collecti…

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Gothenburg - has this former shipyard city become Sweden's green capital? 55:44

1+ y ago55:44

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Gothenburg in Sweden once boasted the world's largest shipyards, but in the face of Japanese and Korean competition, the oil crisis and a world economic downturn, the city was brought to its knees in the 1980s, with 5 kms of empty dockland and 20 thousand people without jobs. So far, so very like the Clyde. But though shipbuilding was down, Gothenb…

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Bot-savvy Finns 1:04:38

2y ago1:04:38

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Finland has a particular source of propaganda to deal with in the shape of Russia. Misinformation attacks have focused on familiar issues like immigration and the EU, but also Finland’s application to join NATO. Now the Finns have devised a strategy to teach all social groups to spot fake news and fact-check. This includes lessons in community coll…

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The future (in Finland) will be cooperative 37:57

2y ago37:57

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Finland has a 1300 km long land border with Russia, it fought two wars in the 1940s to defend then reclaim lost territory, and is now applying to join NATO. There, most knowledge of Finland ends. Which is a shame. Because a staple of Finnish life could offer a permanent solution to supply crises in Britain – if we could learn to rely on cooperative…

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Nordic Horizons - the explainer podcast 42:03

2y ago42:03

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It's twelve years since Dan Wynn and Lesley Riddoch set up a think tank to focus on the policy successes of Scotland's Nordic neighbours. Since then, Nordic Horizons has organised almost 70 meetings - most of them in person until the pandemic lockdown in 2020. Now Nordic Horizons meets online - less disruption and travel for speakers and more acces…

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4 Composing a sculpture - Eila Hiltunen and the Sibelius Monument 33:22

2y ago33:22

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Hear the story of the remarkable career of sculptor Eila Hiltunen and the creation of her magnum opus, the Sibelius Monument. What today is widely considered one of the most popular attractions in Helsinki, by locals as well as tourists, was once opposed to by the public. This episode features behind the scenes anecdotes from Eila Hiltunen’s son Ma…

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Jean Sibelius - a living legacy 1:08:01

2y ago1:08:01

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'Finland doesn’t have a long history of Kings and castles. We have always been occupied. When we finally became free the country was built on language, literature, music, paintings. Sibelius created the distinctive sound of Finland. You can hear his enthusiasm for the country – the Finnish sagas, the stories, folklore and the language that is ours …

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Get the bairns oot playing - school can wait 25:06

2y ago25:06

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Is Scotland set to follow Norway with a shift to kindergarten for the early years and a school starting age 6/7 not the present 4/5? Just 12 per cent of countries send five-year-olds to school. Almost all are former parts of the British Empire, clinging to a model devised to release women from childcare as quickly as possible, so they could work in…

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Heating homes without gas - the Nordic way 1:00:12

2y ago1:00:12

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Why did district heating start on farms in Denmark? Are the Norwegians wiser to depend on electrification? Could Scotland do something game changing with smart, local energy networks? Will nuclear help Sweden reach net zero? This 50 minute podcast of the COP 26 - Nordic Verdict event tackles all these big questions with contributions from Viktoria …

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Pint-sized Nordic democracy 1:15:23

2+ y ago1:15:23

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Since Scotland's 'local' elections in May 2022, there’s been much debate about coalitions and control. But there’s a bigger question – are Scottish councils with an average of 175 thousand inhabitants really local at all? And does that not matter? The EU average council has a relatively meagre 10 thousand inhabitants. And Vágur, on the isolated sou…

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NATO, Nordics and Russian Aggression 56:19

2+ y ago56:19

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This is a podcast edited from the conversation between three Nordic experts talking about Russian aggression in Ukraine and the way it is unravelling 70 years of neutrality and non-alignment in Scandinavia. It deals with opinion polls suggesting most Swedes and Finns want to join NATO, but questions American commitment to the Alliance - in light of…

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Episode 86: 18186 Ready or Not 55:16

2+ y ago55:16

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Musician-led ensemble Palaver Strings releases its new album of music by diverse female composers, Ready or Not. Works on the album include Grażyna Bacewicz’s Concerto for String Orchestra; Non può il mio cuore by Venetian singer, lutenist, and composer Maddalena Casulana; composer Barbara Strozzi’s madrigal Lagrime mie featuring a performance by m…

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Episode 231: 18231 Gems from Armenia 1:20:40

2+ y ago1:20:40

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Cellist Ani Aznavoorian and pianist Marta Aznavoorian, each a renowned soloist and chamber musician in her own right, together celebrate the sounds of their ancestral homeland on Gems from Armenia. The album marks the Chicago-raised sisters’ recording debut as the Aznavoorian Duo. Purchase the music (without talk) at:Gems from Armenia (classicalsav…

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Episode 222: 18222 Rossini: William Tell 4:08:14

2+ y ago4:08:14

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William Tell is a French-language opera in four acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and L. F. Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell, which, in turn, drew on the William Tell legend. The opera was Rossini's last, although he lived for nearly 40 more years. Fabio Luisi said that Ros…

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Episode 95: 18195 Sibelius: Complete Symphonies 4:45:19

2+ y ago4:45:19

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The project began as a nine-month exploration of the Sibelius symphonies to mark Mäkelä’s inaugural season with the Oslo Philharmonic as Chief Conductor but, with Covid cancellations, turned into a completely immersive recording project. With the orchestral season disrupted, Mäkelä and the orchestra devoted much of the Spring of 2021 to playing not…

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Episode 229: 18229 Voyager 2:44:54

2+ y ago2:44:54

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Deutsche Grammophon released VOYAGER: ESSENTIAL MAX RICHTER, the first-ever collection of the acclaimed British composer’s work. The 33-track collection will be available as a double CD and e-album and contains work from across his vast catalog, including studio albums such as 2004’s acclaimed The Blue Notebooks, Richter; reviewed by Pitchfork as o…

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Episode 230: 18230 Rossini - Aureliano in Palmira 2:40:33

2+ y ago2:40:33

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Aureliano in Palmira is an operatic dramma serio in two acts written by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto in which the librettist was credited only by the initials "G. F. R." The libretto has generally been attributed to Felice Romani, but sometimes to the otherwise unknown Gian Francesco Romanelli. It has been suggested that the latter name…

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Episode 97: 18197 Orion Weiss - Arc 1 1:20:37

2+ y ago1:20:37

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. Arc I is the inaugural album of an ambitious three-part series and features important works for solo piano from the frantic years of 1911-1913 – the precipice before World War I. The three musical stories on Arc I – Granados’ Goyescas, Janáček’s In the Mists, and Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 9 ”Black Mass” – each struggle with the same impossible …

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Episode 85: 18185 Ruth Slenczynska 1:06:43

2+ y ago1:06:43

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Born in 1925 in Sacramento, California, to Polish immigrants, Slenczynska gave her concert debut at the age of four (just as the world entered the Great Depression), performed on television aged five, and at six made her European concert debut in Berlin. 92 years later, the extraordinary pianist still performs to audiences around the world. ‘MY LIF…

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Episode 228: 18228 Pop Channel 57:13

2+ y ago57:13

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Ziporyn who released his landmark Cantaloupe Music recording; ‘This Is Not a Clarinet’ in 2001, does the impossible on Pop Channel, taking us through some of the best iconic pop songs during the last 5 decades, imagined through a compendium of clarinets and all arranged, layered, and performed by Ziporyn. Every sound on this album – the lead vocals…

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Episode 226: 18226 Rossini - The Italian Girl in Algiers 2:35:57

2+ y ago2:35:57

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Rossini wrote L'italiana in Algeri when he was 21. Rossini stated that he composed the opera in 18 days, though other sources claim that it took him 27 days. Rossini entrusted the composition of the recitatives as well as the aria "Le femmine d'Italia" to an unknown collaborator. The opera is notable for Rossini's mixing of opera seria style with o…

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Episode 227: 18227 Elle 57:50

2+ y ago57:50

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Violinist Angèle Dubeau's newest release ELLE, is an album that magnificently marks the 25 years of existence of her orchestra La Pietà. This 46th album resonates with the feminine sensitivity and virtuosity specific to Angèle Dubeau and the ensemble she founded in 1997, which has ever since demonstrated its artistic excellence and audacity. ELLE t…

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Episode 224: 18224 Night Music 1:05:45

2+ y ago1:05:45

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Night: it can be dreamy or comforting, but sometimes it’s frightening, full of dark secrets. So it’s no great surprise that the long hours of darkness, often spent awake, have inspired so many composers to write some of their most touching works: Chopin’s dreamy Nocturnes, for example, Schumann’s dainty “Nachtstücke” or Ravel’s spinechilling cycle…

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Episode 221: 18221 Bruckner: Symphonies 2 and 8 2:39:36

2+ y ago2:39:36

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Wagner: Meistersinger PreludeBruckner: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, WAB 102 (1877 version)Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor, WAB 108 (1890 version) Andris Nelsons, conductorGewandhausorchester Purchase the music (without talk) at:Bruckner: Symphonies 2 and 8 (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries …

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Episode 225: 18225 Rossini - The Curious Misunderstanding 2:11:23

2+ y ago2:11:23

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L'equivoco stravagante (The Curious Misunderstanding) is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Gaetano Gasbarri. It was Rossini's first attempt at writing a full two-act opera.L'equivoco stravagante was first performed at the Teatro del Corso, Bologna, on 26 October 1811. It was only performed three t…

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Episode 223: 18223 Rossini - featured opera composer for March 2022 44:18

2+ y ago44:18

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This broadcast introduces our international audience to Rossini, our featured opera composer for March 2022. You will hear overtures from the 4 operas we feature this month: L'equivoco stravagante (The Curious Misunderstanding) L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) Aureliano in Palmira William Tell…

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Episode 84: 18184 Kate Soper - The Understanding of All Things 58:18

2+ y ago58:18

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Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer, performer, and writer Kate Soper releases The Understanding of All Things, a portrait album featuring frequent Wet Ink Ensemble collaborator Sam Pluta, on New Focus Recordings. The Understanding of All Things features Soper performing as vocalist, pianist, and electronics composer in three of her works: the title …

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Episode 220: 18220 Nightscapes 1:21:45

2+ y ago1:21:45

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Night falls in diverse ways in Magdalena Hoffmann's debut album. Nightscapes sees the German harpist dive deep into the intimate, mysterious, magical world of night music, as well as exploring the theme of dance. Its tracklist spans everything from the austere beauty of Britten's Suite for Harp Op. 83 to the folk-like colors of Tournier's La danse …

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Episode 213: 18213 24 Preludes for Solo Banjo 32:43

2+ y ago32:43

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Hailed as “one of a kind, a banjoist who specializes in classical music and regularly knocks socks off left and right doing so,” John Bullard has released a new recording, 24 Preludes for Solo Banjo, Volume One, Books 1 & 2 Nos. I-XII was produced by multiple Juno Award and Grammy-winning David Travers-Smith. Bullard commissioned composer Adam Larr…

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Episode 96: 18196 Meyerbeer - The African Woman or Vasco de Gama 4:27:00

2+ y ago4:27:00

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L'Africaine (The African Woman) is an 1865 French grand opéra in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer and Scribe began working on the opera in 1837, using the title L'Africaine, but around 1852 changed the plot to portray fictitious events in the life of the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama and intro…

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Episode 218: 18219 City Lights 1:11:02

2+ y ago1:11:02

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Lisa Batiashvili’s new album, released on May 29, 2020, takes the listener across the world with eleven carefully chosen pieces that represent the most important cities in her life, as well as a suite based on Charlie Chaplin’s own music for City Lights and other films of his, extending last year’s celebration of the 130th anniversary of the iconic…

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Episode 202: 18202 Eden 1:15:18

2+ y ago1:15:18

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From prison reform, the plight of refugees, the need for music education for all, to the industry-defining In War and Peace, opera superstar Joyce DiDonato has long been an artist who has dedicated herself to creating and initiating projects that challenge and galvanize the public, transcending the physical confines of the concert hall. Player.FM P…

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Episode 218: 18218 Bach - The Art of Life 2:24:27

2+ y ago2:24:27

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Pianist Daniil Trifonov is known for performances of 19th and 20th-century virtuoso repertory and hardly at all for Bach. Thus one might expect from his album Bach: The Art of Life a certain old-school Romantic quality and even music that is a bit over the top. The album is all that and more. The title is a bit unclear; the interview-format notes q…

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Episode 214: 18214 Vestige 1:10:19

2+ y ago1:10:19

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Vestige, an album featuring premiere recordings of new pieces by five composers, performed by the contemporary chamber ensemble Wild Rumpus (now Ninth Planet). Five years in the making, Vestige is an ambitious melding of contemporary chamber music and Avant-rock. It features five compositions commissioned by Wild Rumpus, plus an arrangement of a Ra…

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Episode 205: 18205 Herrmann - The Day the Earth Stood Still 51:32

2+ y ago51:32

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The Day the Earth Stood Still stands as one of the earliest and greatest examples of film exploring the mystery and fear of alien contact, using it as an allegory for our mistrust of one another. With its flying saucer, all-powerful robot, and unnervingly calm humanoid alien, much of this movie feels surreal, and that unsettled feeling is encourage…

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Episode 212: 18212 Before and After 49:52

2+ y ago49:52

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Before and After, the much-anticipated new album from NOW Ensemble, a group of composers and performers creating "effervescent, genre-busting" chamber music for the 21st century. Before and After-NOW's seventh album with New Amsterdam is devoted to the "refreshingly new and solidly mature" work of Rome Prize-winning composer Sean Friar. Featuring f…

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Episode 93: 18193 Meyerbeer - Le Prophete 3:38:42

2+ y ago3:38:42

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After the brilliant success of their grand opera Les Huguenots (1836), Meyerbeer and his librettist Scribe decided to collaborate again on a piece based on a historical religious conflict. Meyerbeer's great personal wealth and his duties as official court composer to King Frederick William IV of Prussia meant that there was no hurry to complete the…

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Episode 217: 18217 Bruckner: Symphonies 1 and 5 plus Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod to Tristan und Isolde 2:34:38

2+ y ago2:34:38

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Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod to "Tristan und Isolde"Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, WAB 101Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, WAB 105 Andris Nelsons conducts the Gewandhausorchester Purchase the music (without talk) at:Bruckner: Symphonies 1 and 5 plus Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod to Tristan und Isolde (classicalsavings.com)Your purch…

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Episode 216: 18216 Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D minor, WAB 103 1:22:07

2+ y ago1:22:07

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Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 in D minor, WAB 103, was dedicated to Richard Wagner and is sometimes known as his "Wagner Symphony". It was written in 1873, revised in 1877, and again in 1889. This is the 1889 version.The work has been characterized as "difficult", and is regarded by some as Bruckner's artistic breakthrough. According to Rudolf Kl…

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Episode 215: 18215 Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E-flat Major, WAB 104 "Romantic" 1:25:38

2+ y ago1:25:38

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Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major, WAB 104, is one of the composer's most popular works. It was written in 1874 and revised several times through 1888. It was dedicated to Prince Konstantin of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. It was premiered in 1881 by Hans Richter in Vienna to great acclaim.The symphony's nickname of Romantic was used by …

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Episode 210: 18210 Claude Debussy 1:19:33

2+ y ago1:19:33

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In 1949, two young Argentinian child prodigies met and made music together for the first time, the rest, as they say, is history. In continuation of Martha Argerich’s birthday celebrations, we announce a new album from Daniel Barenboim and Martha Argerich, performing selected works by Claude Debussy. Fantasia for Piano and OrchestraSonata for Violi…

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Episode 208: 18209 Beethoven: The Conquering Hero - Complete Works for Cello & Piano 3:06:11

2+ y ago3:06:11

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Jennifer Kloetzel’s lifelong journey with Beethoven began early: she was eight years old when her teacher placed the composer’s second cello sonata on her music stand, opening the door to an odyssey of intrigue and, ultimately, obsession with the composer’s music. Since then, rarely has a day passed without Beethoven being a part of Jennifer’s life…

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Episode 99: 18199 Herrmann - Citizen Kane 1:01:21

2+ y ago1:01:21

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The film's music was composed by Bernard Herrmann. Herrmann had composed for Welles for his Mercury Theatre radio broadcasts. Because it was Herrmann's first motion picture score, RKO wanted to pay him only a small fee, but Welles insisted he is paid at the same rate as Max Steiner. Purchase the music (without talk) at:Herrmann: Citizen Kane (class…

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Episode 211: 18211 Redeeming Love 2:33

2+ y ago2:33

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REDEEMING LOVE (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) with music by composers BRIAN TYLER and BRETON VIVIAN. The album features music written by the composing duo for the Western romance based on the bestselling novel by Francine Rivers. The project is the latest collaboration between Redeeming Love director DJ Caruso and Brian Tyler, who have worked…

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Episode 92: 18192 Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots 3:34:25

2+ y ago3:34:25

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Les Huguenots was some five years in creation. Meyerbeer prepared carefully for this opera after the sensational success of Robert le diable, recognizing the need to continue to present lavish staging, a highly dramatic storyline, impressive orchestration, and virtuoso parts for the soloists – the essential elements of the new genre of Grand Opera.…

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Episode 208: 18208 On DSCH 3:55:59

2+ y ago3:55:59

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The new album “On DSCH” by Igor Levit is a 3CD discographic tour de force by “one of the essential artists of our time” (The New York Times). That the self-styled “maximalist” enjoys pushing himself to his limits – intellectually and physically – is well known, but the present project – two key cycles of musical modernism - puts all others in the s…

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Episode 207: 18207 Primavera II - the rabbit 1:11:00

2+ y ago1:11:00

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Multi-Grammy-nominated cellist Matt Haimovitz’s latest recording, PRIMAVERA II the rabbits, features the next 13 of 81 new pieces written for Haimovitz. Commissioned by THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT, also featuring Haimovitz’s new arrangement of Josquin de Prez’s Kyrie (from Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae). The project asks composers to respond to Sandro Bot…

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Episode 206: 18206 aubades 47:36

2+ y ago47:36

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aubades, the new album from Jean-Michel Blais, marks the Montreal-born artist's transition from pianist to composer as he writes for an ensemble for the first time in his career. Written during the pandemic and following a breakup, Blais has used his distinctive musical voice to create a defiantly uplifting record with glistening instrumental textu…

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