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Music Post, episode 6: Tragic Chopin

11/29/2014

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This week on the Music Post, we listen to Chopin's great C minor nocturne, with short excerpts from different pianists. You'll learn about how pianists navigate the challenges of Chopin's music and get to know one of his finest miniature masterpieces.

Below are links to the five different performances you hear in the episode. Don't click them until you've listened to the episode though, they give it away!
Pianist #1
Pianist #2
Pianist #3
Pianist #4
Pianist #5

And just one of the many performances I left out.

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Music Post, #5: Magical Mozart and Soave sia il vento

11/9/2014

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This week on the Music Post, we listen to one of Mozart's most popular (with good reason!) opera numbers, and talk about how his operas fit in with the rest of his compositions, and how opera fits in to our musical culture today.

If you don't want to spoil the surprise of who's singing, don't follow the links below until you've listened! Here are, in order of their appearance in the episode, links to each of the recordings played First Verdi excerpt, second Verdi excerpt,first Mozart excerpt (not available for streaming as far as I could find), and second Mozart excerpt

There's one singer for whom I had some pretty, um, not-so-complimentary words in the episode. I've listened to a few more performances of hers, and maybe I was too harsh in my initial judgment. But I still think way too many singers sing like her.

Go be the judge for yourself!

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Music Post, #4: Contrapunctus 9, and what makes Bach work

11/2/2014

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In this episode, we look at Contrapunctus 9 as a microcosm for Bach's compositions more generally, and begin to see how he perfectly balances repetition with unpredictability in his music. You'll hear it both on piano, and at the end of the show, on organ! For some comparison, for anyone who's interested, below is Glenn Gould's organ recording. Click here for a pretty awesome 16 year old playing it on youtube
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