Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 LIVE w/ The Aalborg Symphony
Longtime listeners of Sticky Notes know that Shostakovich's 10 symphony was the inaugural piece covered on the show. It's been 8 years(!) since that show, so I've totally re-written the episode and ha...
27 Okt 202559min
Barber Violin Concerto
There are so many great apocryphal stories in the long history of classical music, from the reason Tchaikovsky wrote his Sixth Symphony to what famous composers supposedly said on their deathbeds, to ...
9 Okt 202547min
100 Years of Beethoven's Eroica (recordings)
One of my favorite things about having Patreon sponsors is that they often suggest the most fascinating pieces and topics for shows. Adrian, who sponsored a show last year, gave me one of my favorite ...
25 Sep 202555min
The Life and Music of Grazyna Bacewicz
The great Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski said this after the premature death of his contemporary Grazyna Bacewicz: "She was born with an incredible wealth of musical talent, which she succeeded to...
6 Sep 202557min
Sticky Notes meets You'll Hear It
I had such a wonderful time joining the jazz podcast You'll Hear It! We talked about the meeting of jazz and classical music, a topic I've explored before, but never in this much depth and never with ...
22 Aug 20251h 10min
Impressions in Blue: Ravel & Gershwin
In the mid-1920s, Maurice Ravel wrote a letter to the legendary composition teacher Nadia Boulanger. Boulanger's class was a mecca for composers, both young and old, and musicians from all over the wo...
7 Aug 202544min
Beethoven Piano Sonata in B Flat Major, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier" - Part 2
There is a special category when it comes to Beethoven; a catalogue that doesn't include complete symphonies, sonatas, concerti, string quartets, etc., but just single movements. This is the catalogue...
24 Jul 202553min
Beethoven Piano Sonata in B♭ major, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier" - Part 1
Beethoven once wrote to his publisher: "What is difficult, is also beautiful, good, great, and so forth. Hence everyone will realize that this is the most lavish praise that can be bestowed, since wha...
10 Jul 202544min
