Podcast terbaik Classical Music Discoveries (2023)

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Episode 320: 19320 In Handel's Shadow

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The figure of George Frideric Handel cast a long shadow over musical London in the first half of the eighteenth, condemning many of his contemporaries – fine composers themselves – to long years of obscurity. In Handel’s Shadow throws light into forgotten corners and discovers some glittering gems, some of them demanding dazzling vocal fireworks fr…

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Episode 319: 19318 Schubert - Winterreise 1:17:14

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SOMM RECORDINGS announces a tribute, marking the centenary of his birth, to the English baritone John Carol Case with the first release of his performance of Schubert’s Winterreise, accompanied by Raymond Calcraft. Help support our show by purchasing this album at: Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored…

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Episode 318: 19318 Cascade 1:10:55

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SOMM Recordings announces Cascade, the exhilarating new recital by pianist Cordelia Williams featuring music by Beethoven, Schumann, and Prokofiev. Tracks Ludwig van Beethoven Bagatelle in C Major, WoO 56 (2:13) Sergei Prokofiev Visions fugitives, Op. 22 (23:25) Lentamente (1:20) Andante (1:27) Allegretto (0:58) Animato (0:59) Molto giocoso (0:26) …

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Episode 315: 19315 Oblivion 1:08:36

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Composer and librettist John Aylward today releases the soundtrack for his one-act chamber opera Oblivion on New Focus Recordings, with a feature-length film through Graham Swon’s Ravenserodd Productions scheduled to follow in fall 2023. With a portfolio of work called “mysterious, iridescent and daring” (Gramophone Magazine), Aylward takes those e…

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Episode 316: 19316 Amazonia 1:05:59

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Alpha Classics today releases esteemed Brazilian conductor Simone Menezes’ new album, Amazônia, the capstone to a project celebrating the music of Philip Glass and the great Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. Pairing musical selections with striking images by Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, the b…

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Episode 314: 19314 Eclipse 3:35

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Eclipse is a piece that has grown and taken on a life of its own. Revisited after the last solar eclipse in the US, this piece contains classical fingerstyle right-hand technique but with influences of the Blues, Rock, and Flamenco. I always enjoy putting different styles of music together and realize they blend quite well. To order the complete al…

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Episode 313: 19313 Perfume 1:49:52

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Winner of 21 national awards, including the “X Eldorado Music Prize” in 1999, Karin dedicated herself to a deep and meticulous recording of Chiquinha's waltz repertoire, initially inspired and struck by one of her pieces, Harmonias do Coração. The breadth and quality of the scores greatly impressed the pianist, prompting her to split the project in…

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Episode 312: 19312 House of Belonging 1:24:40

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Conspirare’s founder and leader, Craig Hella Johnson, commissioned many of the pieces on House of Belonging and composed the opening track himself. The album’s texts convey and explore themes about spirituality, philosophy, the natural world, and the human need for deep connection with others. Composers Kevin Puts, Derrick Skye, Alex Berko, Moira S…

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Episode 311: 19311 Sea Song 14:06

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Australian composer Timothy Collins has crafted a setting of the poem 'Sea Song' by New Zealand poet Katherine Mansfield. The single is released to coincide with the centenary of Mansfield’s death which is being notably marked in her native New Zealand. Alongside the release of this single, Divine Art is releasing the Sea Song music film digitally,…

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Episode 310: 19310 The English Tenor 1:18:41

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Scott Robert Shaw's debut "The English Tenor" takes us on a beautifully performed journey through a who's who of great English composers and their vocal works. The names Ivor Gurney, Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi and Roger Quilter are synonymous with English Song, and a Golden Age of British music. The wide variety of accom…

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Episode 309: 19309 Some Favored Nook 51:29

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Some Favored Nook Tracklist Eric Nathan – Some Favored Nook (2019) Part I 1. To tell me what is true? [4:49] 2. The nearest dream recedes unrealized [2:45] 3. Could you tell me how to grow? [3:01] 4. They shut me up in Prose [3:53] 5. My barefoot rank is better [2:10] Part II 6. To see if we were growing [3:19] 7. War feels to me an oblique place […

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Episode 308: 19308 Gwyn Pritchard - Features and Formations 1:13:53

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In celebration of Gwyn Pritchard’s 75th birthday, Métier releases Features and Formations: a fascinating insight into Pritchard’s creative process. This is contemporary, seemingly mercurial work, rich in structure. Starting from pre-compositional planning and techniques, the composer subtly evolves rhythm and pitch, to create a sound world that man…

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Episode 307: 19307 Ispilu: Works for Quartet-Tone Accordion 1:22:27

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A gratifyingly inventive listening experience, Ispilu marks the first recording of Basque accordionist Lore Amenabar Larrañaga's self-designed quarter-tone accordion, custom-built by Bugari Armando. Claudia Molitor (b. 1974) Fleeting Puddles (2022) David Gorton (b. 1978) Barafostus’ Dreame (2020) Donald Bousted (1957-2021) My Time is Your Time (20…

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Episode 306: 19306 Between Breaths 1:03:43

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Exploring the myriad ways that classical music is being created today, Perspectives features four new works written for – and with – Third Coast Percussion by Danny Elfman, Philip Glass, Jlin, and Flutronix. Third Coast Percussion tours the program this season to the Windgate Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Central Arkansas (Sep…

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Episode 305: 19305 Irina Muresanu Plays Violeta Dinescu 1:16:12

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The raw intensity of emotions in works like Aretusa, Satya I, and Il faudrait d’abord désespérer , where each note unfolds with hypnotic allure, envelops the listener in a world of transcendental states. Dive into the depths of Camus' " The Stranger" with Pour triumpher du soleil and À chaque épée de lumière – Dinescu's masterful use of sound…

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Episode 304: 19304 Edward Cowie - Where the Wood Thrush Forever Sings 1:34:53

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A captivating new album from the extraordinary talents of Edward Cowie, a true master of multiple disciplines. This remarkable polymath, renowned as a composer, visual artist, and natural scientist, has gifted us his exhilarating third epic cycle of 'bird portraits' - a thrilling 24-movement composition for clarinet(s) and piano. Tracks CD 1 Book 1…

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Episode 303: 19303 Frederick Septimus Kelly - Chamber Music 1:11:22

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Frederick Septimus Kelly, born in Sydney in 1881, was on the way to becoming one of Australia’s most important early composers when he was killed during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The three works recorded here – for the first time – underline just how grievous was that loss, not only for Australia but for the musical world more generally. Kel…

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Episode 302: 19302 Gunnar Idenstam - Lofoten Meditations 1:08:43

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Another source of pride and pleasure is that our September releases, between Toccata Classics and Toccata Next, bring our fourth release featuring the Swedish organist and composer Gunnar Idenstam, whose music I find enormously attractive. In 2019 Gunnar was commissioned to provide the music to a film, The Vegan Toothbrush, by the Norwegian film-ma…

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Episode 301: 19301 Virko Baley - Music for Emily Dickinson 1:19:44

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Virko Baley was born in Ukraine in 1938, suffered a tumultuous childhood of displacement during the Second World War, and came to the USA as a refugee, with his family, in 1949, eventually making his home in Las Vegas. He has long been fascinated by the poetry of Emily Dickinson, as can be heard in the two moving works recorded here – one, Uniforms…

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Episode 300: 19300 Williams Wordsworth - Complete Music for Solo Piano 1:26:45

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Likewise with the Anglo-Scottish composer William Wordsworth (1908–88), great-great-grandnephew of the poet, with whom I occasionally exchanged letters and phone calls in the pre-e-mail late 1970s and early 1980s: I never could have predicted that his reputation might be restored by a series of Toccata Classics albums of his orchestral music, and I…

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Episode 299: 19299 Dependent Arising 1:12:17

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While Rachel Barton Pine is widely known for her virtuosic and expressive performances of works from the Western classical music canon, she is also a heavy metal enthusiast and performer of the genre. Pine discovered her love for heavy metal as a teenager and later performed at rock radio stations where she would intersperse her own arrangements of…

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Episode 298: 19298 Quiet Rhythms 1:03:43

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Quiet Rhythms is a piano cycle at once sprawling in scope and introspective in practice. Quiet Rhythms has the warmth and immediacy of a late-night improvisation—an artist following the melodies where they lead him. Quiet Rhythms brings together traditions Susman has spent a lifetime studying: the harmonic language of jazz, the rhythmic pulse of La…

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Episode 297: 19297 Concerto for Portuguese Guitar and Orchestra 1:06:29

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For the first time in history, a ‘Concerto for Portuguese Guitar and Orchestra’ has been composed and recorded, with the composer, Pedro Henriques da Silva, performing as soloist. The whole album “Transclassical Concertos” will be released on August 25th 2023 on the label Bright Shiny Things/Imaginary Animals. Recorded at the legendary Abbey Road S…

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Episode 296: 19296 Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 in C minor, WAB 108 1:25:28

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Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in C minor, WAB 108, is the last symphony the composer completed. It exists in two major versions of 1887 and 1890. It was premiered under conductor Hans Richter in 1892 at the Musikverein, Vienna. It is dedicated to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. This symphony is sometimes nicknamed The Apocalyptic, but this…

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Episode 295: 19295 After a Dream 1:08:33

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After a Dream is dedicated to French masters of the 19th and 20th centuries. They include César Franck (1822-1890), Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), and Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921). In the interpretation of Meneses and Budu, Fauré's Après un Rêve combines fervor and serenity. When the duo perform…

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Episode 294: 19294 Duende 26:28

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Miami’s renowned orchestra NU DECO ENSEMBLE release their major label debut Duende, via Sony Music Masterworks, available now – listen here. Known for blending genres and bringing fresh energy to orchestral music, Nu Deco showcases gentle plucking that tiptoes towards a swooning strings section on their dynamic interpretation of the Bad Bunny hit s…

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Episode 293: 19293 Summer Night Concert 2023 1:17:20

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Philharmonic, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin with Mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca as soloist. The Summer Night Concert was performed this year on June 8th, 2023. It is an annual open-air event, which has been held since 2008. The park of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna/Austria is the magical setting for the concert. The illustrious conductors who have p…

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Episode 292: 19192 Orthodox Hymns of Ukraine 1:07:33

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The Kyiv Patriarchate, established in 1992, was denounced by Moscow and the schism between the two Orthodox churches has become part of the geopolitical confrontation between Russia and Ukraine since 2014. Warlike, incendiary speeches made by Moscow Patriarch Kyrill, some made before Russia's annexation of Ukraine, have only increased tensions. Hel…

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Episode 291: Sviatoslav Richter Plays Prokofiev 1:25:27

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Sviatoslav Richter (1915–97), who several times played all three wartime sonatas during the 1945-6 concert seasons, gave his first public recital in Odessa in 1934 and was taught by Heinrich Neuhaus at the Moscow Conservatory. Having played Prokofiev’s Fifth Piano Concerto under the composer’s direction, Richter gained a formidable reputation in th…

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Episode 288: 19288 CPE Bach - Wurtemberg Sonatas 1:31:08

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Keith Jarrett’s account of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Württemberg Sonatas is a revelation. “I’d heard the sonatas played by harpsichordists, and felt there was a space left for a piano version,” says Jarrett today. This outstanding recording, made in May 1994 and previously unreleased, finds the pianist attuned to the expressive implications of th…

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Episode 290: 19290 Ernest Bloch: Israel Symphony, Schelomo, Three Jewish Poems 1:20:08

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Ernest Bloch's music is unabashedly pictorial and emblematic of late Romantic-era expressionism, with an impressive catalog of works, many of which draw deeply on his Jewish faith. Alto Records returns these benchmark recordings of three of Ernest Bloch's greatest works, composed during the twentieth century's second decade, to international availa…

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Episode 287: 19287 Vox Clamantis Choir 1:07:40

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After dedicating past ECM New Series recordings to the works of contemporary composers Arvo Pärt, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Helena Tulve, and most recently Cyrillus Kreek, the Vox Clamantis choir, under the direction of Jaan-Eik Tulve, turns its attention towards Norwegian composer Henrik Ødegaard with a fine-drawn program of liturgical choral music. Vox Cl…

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Episode 289: 19289 Weinbert String Quartets 1:22:38

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Mieczysław Weinberg (1919–1996) was one of the most prolific composers of the Soviet era. He enjoyed a period of popularity in Russia during the 1960s (he called them his ‘starry years’), but his music has only been widely heard in the West since a revival of interest in the second decade of the 21st century. Weinberg was born in Warsaw, to a music…

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Episode 286: 19286 Alice Sara Ott - Beethoven 1:00:07

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Earlier this year, pianist Alice Sara Ott became the face of the Apple Music Classical app when she starred in its launch video, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15 with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Karina Canellakis. The recording of it now becomes the headline work in Ott’s latest Deutsche G…

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Episode 285: 19285 Dvorak - Symphony No 8 and Suke Serenade for Strings 1:08:38

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Parnassus returns to international availability these extraordinary recordings by the Czech Philharmonic and the founding father of the modern Czech orchestral sound, Václav Talich. Drawing on Mark Obert-Thorn’s superb transfers and using Urlicht AudioVisual’s state-of-the-art restoration system to abate shellac surface noise and improve frequency …

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Episode 284: 19284 Inez Matthews sings Schubert 2:19:29

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Parnassus Records presents its latest release in the “Black Swans” series, returning to international availability a pioneering recording of Schubert’s best-known song cycles, Die schöne Mullein and Winterreise, sung by American soprano Inez Matthews accompanied by Lowell Farr. The recordings were briefly available as a two-LP-plus-EP set in the mi…

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Episode 283: 19283 Malakai Golden 33:31

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The astonishing young singer and Britain’s Got Talent 2023 finalist, Malakai, has secured a record deal with Universal Music, the record company home of Pavarotti, and today announces his debut album, to be released on Universal Classics and Jazz in association with Classic FM, the UK’s most popular classical music station. The 14-year-old choriste…

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Episode 282: 19282 Tower Music 56:15

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What is the sound of one hand clapping? We may never know. What does the Eiffel Tower sound like? Hah! There’s an answer to that one. Never one to shy away from a compositional challenge, Joseph Bertolozzi undertook what became a twelve-year odyssey to sample and write music using only the sounds of the Eiffel Tower. Without the aid of supplemental…

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Episode 267: 19267 Songs for Our Times 1:08:27

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Deutsche Grammophon introduces the Sphinx Virtuosi to a global stage via the release of its debut album, Songs for Our Times. Hailed as “topnotch” by The New York Times, this groundbreaking self-conducted American string ensemble comprises 18 exceptional Black and Latinx artists and has curated an album featuring works by outstanding composers and …

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Episode 281: 19281 Discovering Mendelssohn 1:18:27

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Decca Classics is thrilled to announce the new album from Australian-Chinese violinist Christian Li. Having topped the UK Classical Charts with his debut album in 2021 (with which he became the youngest artist ever to record Vivaldi’s Four Seasons) the award-winning musician prepares to release his second album, entitled ‘Discovering Mendelssohn’, …

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Episode 264: 19264 Pioneer Day in Utah 1:21:56

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Music to celebrate Utah's Pioneer Day. 1 | | Ashokan Farewell | 5:10 2 | | Bound For Another Harvest Home | 4:05 3 | | Prairie Spring | 3:42 4 | | Haymaker's Hoedown | 2:45 5 | | Solstice Hymn | 2:54 6 | | Thanksgiving Waltz | 3:46 7 | | La Chanson De Mardi Gras | 3:50 8 | | Bonaparte's Retreat/Hoedoen | 5:09 9 | | Violin Solo | 0:25 10 | | Jeanie …

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Episode 280: 19280 Hisaishi - A Symphonic Celebration 1:34:07

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On 30 March 2023, Deutsche Grammophon announced the signing of an exclusive agreement with Joe Hisaishi, the revered Japanese composer whose work has become synonymous with the magical Studio Ghibli animations of director Hayao Miyazaki. Spanning the full spectrum of Hisaishi’s work as composer, conductor and pianist, the deal will deliver a richly…

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Episode 279: 19279 One World 1:15:44

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One World deals with a fractured world (populist governments, plagues, climate change, human trafficking, disrespect for basic human rights, terrorism, war) and heralds a vision of a peaceful and egalitarian planet. The work is best encapsulated by one of the texts set: ‘Tikkun Olam’, Hebrew for ‘repair the world’, a Jewish concept of stewardship o…

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Episode 278: 19278 Music for a New Century 1:21:12

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Celebrating its 30th anniversary this season, New Century Chamber Orchestra has been resident in San Francisco’s Bay Area since its founding in 1992. One of just a handful of conductorless chamber orchestras in the world, the ensemble makes collaborative musical decisions, leading to an enhanced level of engagement from all involved. As well as giv…

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Episode 277: 19277 Jazztopad Festival 2:31:38

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How far is jazz from classical music? Do they really speak radically different languages? Michael Bates’ Acrobat and Lutosławski Quartet are ensembles from different musical environments. They have established an artistic dialogue focusing on the oeuvre of one of Poland’s greatest 20th-century composers: Witold Lutosławski. The results of their wor…

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Episode 276: 19276 Brazilian Music for Oboe and Piano 51:41

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In Brazilian Music for Oboe and Piano, oboist Alexandre Ficarelli and pianist Marcos Aragoni present a refined selection of works by Brazilian composers active in the 20th and 21st centuries. These composers include Camargo Guarnieri, Osvaldo Lacerda, Ernst Mahle, Mario Ficarelli, and Liduino Pitombeira. Tracks 1. Ponteio No. 39: Dengoso (Arr. for …

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Episode 275: 19275 Mozart - Sonatas for Piano and Violin - Part 2 1:49:49

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Renaud Capuçon’s exciting new Mozart project for Deutsche Grammophon comprises three albums and two STAGE+ performances, all to come before the end of the year. Together they encompass the artist’s multi-faceted career as a concerto soloist, chamber musician, artistic director, and mentor to outstanding young talent. Help support our show by purcha…

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Episode 274: 19274 Mozart - Sonatas for Piano and Violin - Part 1 3:21:06

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Renaud Capuçon’s exciting new Mozart project for Deutsche Grammophon comprises three albums and two STAGE+ performances, all to come before the end of the year. Together they encompass the artist’s multi-faceted career as a concerto soloist, chamber musician, artistic director, and mentor to outstanding young talent. Help support our show by purcha…

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Episode 273: 19273 Eugène Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas for Violin Solo, op. 27 1:11:04

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Hahn recorded all six sonatas in chronological order. “In playbacks, I was struck by how surprising my own playing sounded to me. The goosebumps told me I was headed in the right direction. These sonatas are truly hypnotic, and when we’d wrap for the day, I’d step into the winter air in a haze, my brain reharmonized by the tonalities that had vibra…

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Episode 272: 19272 Franck - Hulda 2:50:52

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CMD Paris Philharmonic and Chorus of Orleans Conducted by Dominique Beaulieu The story tells how Hulda seeks revenge on Aslak and his clan, who killed her family. The subject depicts a young woman as a victim, her faith in nature, her destiny, and women's suffering at the hands of men. Prologue After a prelude depicting the wind and sea, Hulda and …

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