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Mozart Symphony No. 38, "Prague"
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - July 27, 2023 06:51 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsVery few cities have had a relationship with a single person, especially a foreigner, like the city of Prague and its love affair with Mozart. Here’s what Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart’s librettist for some of his greatest operas, said about it: "It is not easy to convey an adequate conception of the...
Jean-Louis Duport Cello Concerto No. 4
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - July 20, 2023 05:40 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThank you to Nicole for sponsoring today's show on Patreon! Have you ever heard of Jean-Louis Duport? I imagine that unless you are a professional cellist, or someone who studied cello as a child, you probably haven’t. Even though my sister is a professional cellist, I had never heard of him b...
Brahms B Major Piano Trio
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - July 06, 2023 11:45 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsWhen we listen to the music of Johannes Brahms, we often are reminded of the image of the portly bearded Brahms at the piano, eyes closed in a soulful pose. Brahms’ works always, even in his youth, seemed to have a burnished maturity about them. As I’ve said many times on this show, Brahms’ musi...
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - June 29, 2023 06:20 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThere’s a joke among classical musicians that the only parts of a piece that matter are the beginning, the end, and one place in the middle. I don’t think its something that anyone really believes in, but the value of the beginning of a piece in setting the scene cannot be ignored, and the abso...
Ravel, Bolero + La Valse
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - June 22, 2023 06:40 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsMaurice Ravel the Magician, the Swiss Watchmaker, the aloof, the elegant, the precise, the soulful, the childlike, the naive, the warm, the radical, the progressive. These are all words that were used to describe a man of elegant contradictions throughout his life and into today. I talked a lot ...
Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - June 15, 2023 05:34 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsHave you ever been to an art museum and wished that you had music to accompany your experience? Music that made the art you were looking at more vivid, more immediate, and more emotionally intense? Well, Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition is the piece for you. Inspired by his late ...
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - June 08, 2023 05:54 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsWelcome to episode number 200 of Sticky Notes!! On December 22nd, 1808, a day that would live in classical music lore forever, Ludwig Van Beethoven sat down for his very last appearance as a solo pianist to play this new piano concerto, his 4th. This performance was not only the premiere of th...
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - June 01, 2023 09:17 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsWhat did Dmitri Shostakovich intend to portray in his music? There is probably no more debated a question in all of 20th century Western Classica lMusic than this one. On the surface, it seems to have an easy answer. Shostakovich portrayed his own thoughts and feelings in his music, just as any ...
What Does a Conductor Really Do?
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - May 25, 2023 12:14 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsHave you ever wondered what it is that us conductors are really doing up there? Are we just waving our arms in time to the music? What role does the conductor actually play in a concert? How about a rehearsal? Do we also learn to be train conductors as well? Well, today's episode is about answer...
All things Piano with Marc-André Hamelin
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - May 18, 2023 11:05 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsMarc-André Hamelin is one of the world's greatest living pianists. He is known as a virtuoso of the highest order and has made nearly 100 recordings spanning the gamut of the piano repertoire. In this conversation we talk about how Marc fell in love with Gershwin, piano rolls, Busoni, Godowsky, ...
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - May 11, 2023 05:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings“This is Fate, the force of destiny, which ever prevents our pursuit of happiness from reaching its goal, which jealously stands watch lest our peace and well-being be full and cloudless, which hangs like the sword of Damocles over our heads and constantly, ceaselessly poisons our souls.” With t...
My 25 Favorite Moments in Classical Music (Part 2)
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - May 04, 2023 06:45 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsLast week we covered moments 1-15 in my top 25 favorite moments in classical music, going all the way up towards the end of the 19th century. This week we're going to explore 9 of my favorite moments from the wide world of 20th century music, and then, in a little twist, I'm going to look at 5 o...
My Top 25 Favorite Moments in Classical Music (Part 1)
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - April 27, 2023 06:38 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsWhat MAKES a moment in a piece of classical music? Sometimes it’s the result of careful pacing from a composer, the slow build to a powerful release. Sometimes it’s about surprise, a sudden explosion, or even a sudden extinguishing of sound. Sometimes it’s about a harmonic transition, where the ...
Mendelssohn Octet in E Flat Major, Op. 20
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - April 20, 2023 04:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsFrom 1825-1827, Mendelssohn wrote 3 of his most beloved and most played works: his Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture, his String Quartet, Op. 13, and the piece were going to talk about today, his Octet. What is truly astonishing about these three pieces is that they were all written before Mendel...
Mahler Symphony No. 5, Part 2
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - April 13, 2023 05:57 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsI left you last week after Part 1 of Mahler’s 5th symphony, dazed and defeated. There seems to be no hope, and no way out. But as many of you know by now, Mahler reaches for the entire emotional spectrum in his music, and what Mahler builds out of the ashes of the first two movements is a comp...
Mahler Symphony No. 5, Part 1
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - April 06, 2023 06:15 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThere is a thread of musical theory called Schenkerian analysis, based on the work of Heinrich Schenker. Schenker believed that musical works could be boiled down to their fundamental structures and harmonies. Entire works could be described with single chords. If Schenker had applied his ana...
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - March 30, 2023 05:35 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsI’m not sure there’s ever been a composer who changed as much throughout his or her life as Arnold Schoenberg. Schoenberg would become famous, or infamous, depending on who you talk to, for his invention of atonality; the equalization of all keys so that the system of harmony that had been follo...
What Does an Opera Director Really Do? W/ Tabatha McFadyen
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - March 23, 2023 06:16 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsHave you ever wondered what exactly goes on behind the scenes putting together an opera? Have you ever asked yourself how a director make decisions on how to interpret the libretto of an opera? Why do some productions look so completely different to others? What is "regie theater" and why it is ...
The Life and Music of Clara Schumann
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - March 16, 2023 06:15 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsClara Schumann, without a doubt, was one of the greatest pianists of all time. Schumann’s playing didn’t just leave critics and audiences in raptures, it also left other composers amazed that their music could sound so beautiful. Liszt called her the Priestess of the Piano, Chopin adored her ...
So What's It Like To Be The Principal Horn Of The Berlin Philharmonic? W/ Stefan Dohr
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - March 09, 2023 07:32 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsStefan Dohr is one of the greatest french horn players in the world today. He has been the Principal Horn of the Berlin Philharmonic, one of the world's greatest orchestras, since 1993. In this really fun interview, Stefan and I talked about how he switched to the horn after starting out on the ...
Brahms Symphony No. 1
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - March 02, 2023 07:32 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsBrahms was only 20 years old when Robert Schumann wrote his famous Neue Bahnen(New Paths) article that proclaimed Brahms as the future of music and the heir of Beethoven. Beethoven had only been dead for 26 years at this point, and his shadow still loomed large over every single composer living ...
Debussy String Quartet
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - February 23, 2023 10:51 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsJust one year before Debussy wrote his legendary Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, he completed another groundbreaking work. It was a string quartet, which he expected to be the first of many. But in the end, it would be the only one he would ever write. If you aren’t familiar with Debussy’s ...
A Conversation with Martin Fröst: "The Highest Feeling You Can Get is that Someone Got Better"
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - February 16, 2023 07:41 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsMartin Fröst very well may be the greatest living clarinetist. His brilliant sound, feats of virtuosity, eclectic taste, and amazing performing ability has made him a superstar in the classical music world. I recently worked with Martin in Spain and a month later we had time to sit down and reco...
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part 2
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - February 09, 2023 13:45 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsBy as early as 1909, composers like Mahler knew that tonality was reaching its breaking point, and composers like Debussy were experimenting with colors and ideas a composer like Brahms wouldn’t have dreamed were possible. Strauss was shocking the world in his own right with his erotic and dist...
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part 1
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - February 02, 2023 13:55 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThe most famous thing about Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring is the riot that took place at its premiere. Perhaps its overcompensating for classical music's reputation for being a bit stuffy, but musicians and musicologists LOVE talking about the riot at the Rite of Spring, and I’m no exception...
Stravinsky: Petrouchka
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - January 27, 2023 07:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIf you listened to my show last week about Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird, you know that Stravinsky’s life was never the same after the premiere of the ballet in 1910. Sergei Diaghilev, the founder of the Ballets Russes and Stravinsky’s greatest collaborator, said just before the premiere, “th...
Stravinsky: The Firebird
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - January 19, 2023 07:49 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsIn 1906, the impresario Sergei Diaghilev created a sensation in Paris with an exhibition of Russian Art. This was the first time a major showing of Russian art had appeared in Paris, and from this point forward, the city was obsessed with Russian art, literature, and music. Diaghilev, ever the ...
Pavel Haas, Symphony
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - January 12, 2023 06:33 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThis February, I have the great honor of joining the Indianapolis Symphony for the North American premiere of Pavel Haas’ remarkable unfinished symphony. Pavel Haas, a Czech Jewish composer, wrote the existing music for his symphony between 1940 and 1941 before his deportation to the Terezin ghe...
Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - December 22, 2022 08:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsAsk a non-classical music fan to name a piece of classical music. If they don’t say Beethoven 5, or the Ode to Joy, they probably will say The Four Seasons. They might not know that it was written by Vivaldi, but the Four Seasons are a set of pieces that have made that leap into popular culture ...
Chopin Etudes (and Godowsky!)
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast - December 15, 2022 08:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsYou might be thinking, "Why on earth would anyone want to devote an entire podcast to etudes?" For most instrumentalists, etudes are the bane of our existence. They are studies, meant to develop technique on an instrument. Etudes are an essential part of any instrumentalists work, but they had...
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