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Kathleen Ferrier: A Voice Not Forgotten
May 15, 2012
Silenced by breast cancer at the height of her sparkling career, the great English singer Kathleen Ferrier's legacy lives on in a new 14-CD set and documentary.
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Pedro Soler And Gaspar Claus: Tiny Desk Concert
May 14, 2012
The improvisational music of father and son Pedro Soler and Gaspar Claus functions as a beautiful conversation. Soler plays a delicate flamenco guitar, while Claus turns the cello into an exquisitely expressive voice. The two bring that spirit to their intimate performance in the NPR Music offices.
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Roman Totenberg: A Musical Life Remembered
May 12, 2012
NPR's Nina Totenberg recalls her late father's mastery of music, as well as his love of life.
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Around The Classical Internet: May 11, 2012
May 11, 2012
A classy train ride in Copenhagen, a ruckus in London and a broken Strad in Madrid: all the news that's fit to link.
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Van Dyke Parks On Mountain Stage
May 8, 2012
The legendary arranger, songwriter and musician makes his first appearance on West Virginia's famous stage.
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Classical Lost And Found: Danish Delights From The Late 19th Century
May 8, 2012
Composer Christian Horneman's limited but exceptional output has a flair for the theatrical.
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'Wagner's Dream': Is It The Met's Nightmare?
May 7, 2012
A new documentary follows the Metropolitan Opera's controversial staging of Wagner's Ring cycle.
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Around The Classical Internet: May 4, 2012
May 4, 2012
A transposed tenor on pop, an inspiring orchestra on tour and the iPad on music stands: all the classical music news that's fit to link.
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Danielle De Niese In Concert
May 3, 2012
Watch an intensely physical and deeply felt performance by a soprano who brings operatic elegance and rock glam to music by Handel, Dowland and Monteverdi at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York.
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Meet Your New Piano Idol: Behzod Abduraimov
May 1, 2012
Hear an excerpt from a fabulous debut recording by a 21-year-old pianist who's poised to take the world by storm with his beguiling mix of tenderness and muscularity.
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Philip Glass, 'Icon' Of The Avant-Garde
May 1, 2012
The Fader, a magazine that usually covers up-and-coming or firmly non-commercial artists, honors the 75-year-old composer, who is neither.
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Around The Classical Internet: April 27, 2012
April 27, 2012
Kurt Masur's fall, Langrée's ascent and good news from both Louisville and Philadelphia: all the classical music news that's fit to link.
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Spring For Music Live: The Nashville Symphony Goes Electric, Eclectic
April 26, 2012
The Nashville Symphony Orchestra brings a wonderfully weird program to Carnegie Hall, including the New York premiere of a new electric violin concerto by Terry Riley, featuring the superb soloist Tracy Silverman.
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Bang On A Concerto: A New Percussion Piece By Rautavaara
April 24, 2012
The dean of Finnish composers has written a new concerto for ace percussionist Colin Currie.
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Hear The Opera That Just Won The Pulitzer
April 23, 2012
Composer Kevin Puts based his winning score on the French film Joyeux Nöel, which tells the true story of a surprise cease-fire among German, French and Scottish soldiers on the battlefields of World War I.
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Carnegie Hall Live: Pavel Haas Quartet
April 23, 2012
Hear the group the Times of London has called "the world's most exciting string quartet" in music by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Smetana, live from the intimate Weill Recital Hall.
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Around The Classical Internet: April 20, 2012
April 20, 2012
Big prizes for composers, operatic intrigue in New York and a former MP takes to the stage in London: all the news that's fit to link.
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To Russia, With Musical Love ¿ After 22 Years' Absence
April 20, 2012
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra traveled to Russia this week for the first time in more than two decades ¿ and found a very different country than the one they last visited.
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The Tokyo String Quartet Will Bid Farewell
April 20, 2012
One of the world's top string quartets has decided that next season will be its last as an ensemble. Hear some of their exemplary performances.
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Joshua Bell And Jeremy Denk On 'Song Travels'
April 20, 2012
Connect the dots between classical music and standards with the dynamic violin-and-piano duo.
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Jonas Kaufmann Steps Into The (Boxing) Ring
April 18, 2012
Who cares if the tenor doesn't sing in this Royal Opera House video promo?
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The Splendid Tabla: New Indian Flavors For Orchestra
April 17, 2012
Composer Evan Ziporyn pairs exciting new concertos for two unlikely soloists: bass clarinet and the Indian tabla.
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Kevin Puts Wins Music Pulitzer For World War I Opera 'Silent Night'
April 16, 2012
The story of a sudden cease-fire on a Belgian battlefield inspired the 40-year-old composer's first opera.
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For Orthodox Easter, Music That Faces East
April 15, 2012
Some 300 million Christians around the world are celebrating Easter today ¿ and their music and art are grounded in a cultural and religious crossroads.
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Around The Classical Internet: April 13, 2012
April 13, 2012
Triumph in Kinshasa, agony in Moscow and early-onset teen angst in Leipzig: all the news that's fit to link.
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Remembering The Titanic's Intrepid Bandleader
April 13, 2012
Wallace Hartley left work as a bank teller to become a conductor. He spent his final moments on the deck of the Titanic, leading the ship's seven musicians in song as they sank into the North Atlantic.
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Bach's St. Matthew Passion: Ritualized And Riveting
April 10, 2012
Watch an excerpt of Peter Sellars' semi-staged "ritualization" of Bach's dramatic passion story.
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Around The Classical Internet: April 6, 2012
April 6, 2012
A tempest over tutus, the Met's embattled Ring cycle, $2 tickets and much more: all the news that's fit to link.
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Beethoven's String Quartet of Transcendence
April 6, 2012
Gravely ill in spring 1825, Beethoven worked on a groundbreaking new string quartet. It begins ominously with four dark, uncertain notes, then travels paths of pain and suffering, eventually triumphing in sunlight. Hear the Emerson String Quartet make the journey at the Savannah Music Festival.
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Daniel Hope: A Renaissance Man In Savannah
April 5, 2012
Along with his concerts, recordings, books and music videos, British violinist Daniel Hope finds the time to settle down in Georgia each spring as the associate artistic director of the Savannah Music Festival. Hear Hope in a concert of French chamber music.
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Milos Karadaglic And The Power Of A Dusty Old Guitar
April 4, 2012
On the day he first held his father's beat-up old guitar, Milos Karadaglic knew he'd picked the right instrument. From the war-torn Montenegro of his youth to London's Royal Academy of Music, the 28-year-old has made a splash in the guitar world. Hear him in recital at the Savannah Music Festival.
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Takacs Quartet At The Savannah Music Festival: Schubert Meets Bartok
April 3, 2012
The revered group plays intricate Bartók and passionate Schubert at the Savannah Music Festival.
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Savannah Music Festival's Russian Reminiscence
April 3, 2012
Violinist Daniel Hope and friends play a sun-splashed Tchaikovsky travelogue.
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Savannah Music Festival's Russian Reminiscence
April 3, 2012
Violinist Daniel Hope and friends play a sun-splashed Tchaikovsky travelogue.
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Classical Lost And Found: A Mid-Century View From Venezuela
April 3, 2012
Evencio Castellanos' symphonic poems from the 1940s reveal Venezuela at its most voluptuous.
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Takacs Quartet: A Slice Of Schubert And A Bartok Palindrome
April 2, 2012
The revered group plays intricate Bartók and passionate Schubert at the Savannah Music Festival.
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So Percussion: Tiny Desk Concert
April 2, 2012
The minute its members were ensconced in our office, So Percussion started borrowing items to add to its set, from an amplified cactus and bells to a mug filled with spare change and an empty padded envelope. The ensemble performs original pieces and the works of John Cage at the Tiny Desk.
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Beethoven's 10th Symphony: For Real?
April 1, 2012
Weekend Edition Sunday takes a look at the mysterious saga of a new Beethoven discovery.
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Beethoven Rebuilt in Bed-Stuy
March 29, 2012
The Brooklyn Philharmonic's Alan Pierson reinvents the orchestra one neighborhood at a time.
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Thrilling Rides In Dazzling Machines: The San Francisco Symphony Plays Adams
March 27, 2012
Hear an excerpt from a brilliant new recording of music by one of today's most essential composers ¿ it's an early contender for Best Album of 2012.
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Bach's 'St. John Passion' At Carnegie Hall
March 23, 2012
The Canadian ensemble and vocal soloists, including tenor Ian Bostridge, perform Bach's misunderstood St. John Passion.
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Live Monday: 'American Mavericks' In Performance And Conversation
March 23, 2012
Watch Michael Tilson Thomas, John Adams, Meredith Monk, Jeremy Denk and the St. Lawrence String Quartet in an evening of performance and conversation.
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Around The Classical Internet: March 23, 2012
March 23, 2012
Lots and lots of Goldbergs, North Korean musicians might (not) come to the States and an opera house in Dubai: all the news that's fit to link.
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Anderson And Roe: A Speechless 'Billie Jean'
March 22, 2012
Full of unexpected twists, Anderson and Roe's Michael Jackson cover takes a pianistic moonwalk.
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Lara Downes' New Viewpoints On Old Variations
March 21, 2012
The pianist performs contemporary takes on Bach's Goldberg Variations in the NPR studio
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Ecstatic Music: Dan Deacon, NOW Ensemble And Calder Quartet
March 16, 2012
Hear a purveyor of overdriven sound team up with two of the hottest groups in new art music.
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The Ecstatic Music Festival: The Mountain Goats And Anonymous 4
March 16, 2012
Hear a transcendent show by a very unlikely pairing from the aptly named Ecstatic Music Festival: Indie icons meet up with a crystal-pure classical vocal quartet.
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Around The Classical Internet: March 16, 2012
March 16, 2012
Fight night at the CSO, sumo wrestlers at the Canadian Opera, a snarling radio interview and helicopters swarming a performance: an unexpectedly belligerent guide to all the news that's fit to link.
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The Metropolitan Opera Anytime ¿ And Anywhere ¿ You Want It
March 15, 2012
Ten things to know about what should be a tech-savvy opera lover's dream app: more than 350 full operas from the 1930s to the present, all ready to stream on your iPad.
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L'Arpeggiata At Carnegie Hall
March 13, 2012
The period instrument band is not afraid to stretch the performance traditions of early music, incorporating improvisatory detours, sultry Latin riffs and earthy vocals.
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Around The Classical Internet: March 9, 2012
March 9, 2012
Getting inside music, weighing 'Klinghoffer,' stealing in Spain and much more: all the news that's fit to link.
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