All Pieces for Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Hanukah music has not always been that easy to find on the radio or on CD in December, but there's never been a Hanukah music shortage with the Can...
- Added: Nov 25, 2007
- Length: :23
We know that personal and artistic insecurities often accompanied Tchaikovsky's daily composing activities. Conductor Erich Kunzel says there's pl...
- Added: Nov 25, 2007
- Length: :15
Choosing a title for a new piece of music can be as tough as writing the very first note. Composer Michael Torke tries to avoid titles that push l...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :27
Composer Michael Torke lives and composes in New York. His choice of address and even possibly his writing style can be traced back to an event in...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :28
Like many composers Michael Torke worries about coming up with the right titles for his music. When he wrote "Javelin," he wondered if the title m...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :21
If you're a well established performer, writer or artist of any kind, you're likely to have your fans tell you they like your early work the best. ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :20
Composer Carl Maria von Weber is a favorite of clarinetists - including David Shifrin. Weber's Grand Duo concertante is, basically, 19th century s...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :20
You may have heard the story of the young clarinetist who brought Brahms out of retirement to write for the instrument. Fittingly, Brahms' clarine...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :28
The clarinet was most likely invented by Johann Christoph Denner in 1690. While Denner may have been the inventor, David Shifrin says it was Mozar...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :26
The word "spiritual" continues to have a wide range of applications when discussing religion and the 21st century lifestyle. Conductor Herbert Blo...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :23
Some composers are influenced by other composers and earlier styles and trends. That was surely the case with Jean Sibelius, but conductor Herbert...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :26
Some composers are influenced by other composers and earlier styles and trends. That was surely the case with Jean Sibelius, but conductor Herbert...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :41
On the surface, it may seem like there is a world of difference between Beethoven's lighter, and light hearted Symphony No. 8 and his monumental Sy...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :20
With Peer Gynt, composer Edvard Grieg did not write in the big orchestral setting that made Beethoven's symphonies so popular. Conductor Herbert B...
- Added: Oct 31, 2007
- Length: :24
The Finnish Four Seasons are a magnificent gift of nature, according to Finnish pianist Olli Mustonnen. He says that makes him well suited to play...
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :23
How much do you need to know and understand to enjoy classical music? Olli Mustonen is best known as a pianist, but he also conducts and composes ...
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :25
Although Jean Sibelius is best known for his symphonies and his violin concerto, he also dabbled in the world of short piano pieces. Olli Mustonen...
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :29
The Piano Sonata No.1 by Rachmaninoff is, like most of Rachmaninoff's music, robust and hearty in sound. Pianist Olli Mustonen calls it "a symphon...
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :25
As talented and exceptionally skilled as today's orchestra musicians may be, there are plenty of living composers whose music still presents a chal...
Bought by WETS
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 1
When composer John Adams attends a concert that features his music, he looks forward to hearing what the audience has to say -- as long as they don...
Bought by WETS
- Added: Sep 30, 2007
- Length: :17
- Purchases: 1