All Pieces for Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
How do performers and conductors choose the way they shape the music they play? It's different for each performer. Some look to history or academ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
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When Beethoven wrote his last piano sonata, we can say with near certainty he was completely deaf. The Sonata is filled with surprises. Pianist S...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :24
How does one interpret music? How do performers and conductors decide how to shape and craft the music they play? Conductor Gerard Schwarz likes ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :20
Mahler's Symphony No. 2 is known as the "Resurrection" Symphony. It's a religious work of sorts, but conductor Ivan Fischer says Mahler wasn't rea...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :25
American composer David Diamond wrote in what can comfortably be called the "romantic" tradition. He enjoyed getting rich, full-bodied sounds from...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :24
Every orchestra has a trademark - it can be their overall sound, an instrumental section within the orchestra like the Chicago Symphony Brass, or i...
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Conductor Gerard Schwarz makes several connections with Mahler's First Symphony, especially the music’s Viennese and Eastern European flavors. He a...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :25
Dvorak's "New World" Symphony is at the top of nearly everyone's "Hit Parade" - and his other big symphonies and the Cello Concerto are not far beh...
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- Length: :26
Alan Hovhaness is an American composer of Armenian heritage with a fascination for the Far East. He's best known for his symphony, "Mysterious Mou...
- Added: Mar 31, 2009
- Length: :21
For any format: Use this 59 second drop-in for Bach's birthday (March 21) or any day as a drop-in, promo or billboard. Cellist Matt Haimovitz and t...
- Added: Mar 17, 2009
- Length: :59
The Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 is a part of nearly every pianist's concert repertoire, and for many Russian pianists, it's often the first ma...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :26
Pianist Yefim Bronfman performs the solo and concerto repertoire around the world, and he plays music written for two pianos with his Manhattan nei...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :23
There are a couple of myths about Russian piano players – one of them is that they only play Russian music. Yefim Bronfman was born in Tashkent, U...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :17
There are two views when it comes to the most popular pieces in the standard repertoire, sometimes referred to as "warhorses." The Tchaikovsky Pia...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
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Three Bach playing pianists talk about a possible spiritual presence in music by Bach. Use this 59 second "Mix" for Bach's Birthday (March 21) or ...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :44
One of Brahms best known orchestral works is his "Variations on a Theme by Haydn." Although it's best known in its orchestral version, Brahms firs...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
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Violinist Julia Fischer's relationship with Bach goes well beyond playing his music in concerts and on recordings. Use this 21 second clip to intr...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
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About ten years ago, cellist Matt Haimovitz took the Bach Cello Suites out of the concert hall and started playing them in bars and night clubs. T...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :26
When violinist Julia Fischer performs with other musicians, she likes that opportunity to make personal connections on stage. When she plays the S...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
- Length: :26
You may have heard that the future of the recording industry is somewhat up in the air as new technologies make it possible to access music in new ...
- Added: Mar 02, 2009
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