Barber Adagio For Strings
Barber's Adagio seems to access a deep well of sadness, heartache, passion, and nostalgia in the listener that is very difficult to explain. As dozens of commentators have noted, there is nothing in ...
31 Mar 202236min
Schubert Symphony No. 8, "Unfinished"
There are many reasons why Schubert's Unfinished Symphony remains a mystery to this day - the literally unfinished form, the unusual way of the symphony's emergencee into public consciousness, and pr...
24 Mar 202240min
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2
Brahms' two piano concertos could not possibly be any more different. The first, written when Brahms was just 25, is dramatic, stormy, and impulsive. This makes sense seeing at it was written practi...
17 Mar 202254min
Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead
How do you orchestrate a painting? How do you take the detail and the visual imagery of a painting and translate that into something that is so vivid that even if you've never seen the painting before...
10 Mar 202245min
The Music of Ukrainian Composers
While the inspiration for the show today is likely obvious, I'm also very happy to get the chance to share this wonderful music with you, separate from the current horrors going on right now. Here's a...
2 Mar 202247min
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
In 1888, Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony was premiered. It was enthusiastically received by the audience, and by Tchaikovsky's friends. But Tchaikovsky's nemesis, the critics, were not so happy with the pi...
24 Feb 20221h 1min
Fauré Requiem
In 1902, the great French composer Gabriel Faure said this: "It has been said that my Requiem does not express the fear of death and someone has called it a lullaby of death. But it is thus that I see...
17 Feb 202257min
Stenhammar Symphony No. 2
The year is 1910. Imagine that you are a young composer, and the music world is in flux all around you. Mahler is dying, and with his death many agreed that the great Austro-German symphonic tradition...
10 Feb 202257min
