Beethoven

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The Life and Works of Beethoven

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Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work

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Composers' Letters

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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician

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The Life and Works of Chopin

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Simply Chopin

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Discover Music of the Baroque Era

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Dvorak in Words and Music

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The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece

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Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician

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Simply Beethoven

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The Memoirs of Berlioz: Including His Travels in Italy, Germany,Russia, and England, 1803-1865

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Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions

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Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music

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Schoenberg: Why He Matters

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Ludwig von Beethoven: Biography, Facts, Quotes and Symphonies Described

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Life of Chopin

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Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces

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Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary

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Conversations

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The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach

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A Little History of Music

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What to Listen for in Music

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Angelic Music: The Story of Benjamin Franklin's Glass Armonica

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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Wagner: His Life and Music

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The Life of Mozart

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Antonin Dvorak

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Johann Sebastian Bach

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Chopin

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The Bell Jar

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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The Complete Sherlock Holmes

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The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander

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The Picture of Dorian Gray: Classic Tales Edition

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CATCH-22

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The Silmarillion

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Frankenstein

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Classic Tales Edition

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The Crucible

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Series of Unfortunate Events #1 Multi-Voice, A: The Bad Beginning

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The Old Man and the Sea

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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The Great Gatsby

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The Fountainhead

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A Thousand Ships: A Novel

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The Name of the Rose

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Sense and Sensibility

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War & Peace - Volume I

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Atlas Shrugged

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Schindler's List

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Around the World in 80 Days: Classic Tales Edition

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Classic Tales Edition

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Stone Blind: A Novel

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Pride and Prejudice: Classic Tales Edition

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

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White Noise

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Mahler Symphony No. 5, Part 1: There 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...

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Classical Superstars, The Piano, and Robert Greenberg: Join host Ed Leon as Robert Greenberg, prolific composer, music scholar, and impresario of The Great Courses, explores the history of piano music and composers Beethoven and Mozart.

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Shostakovich Symphony No. 10: Join conductor Joshua Weilerstein as he takes a deep dive into Shostakovich's monumental 10th symphony.  We'll analyze the music, the history behind the music, and much more, all in an easily digestible and accessible way.  This podcast is for beginners

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Dvorak Symphony No. 8: Bucolic. Sunny. Cheerful. Joyous. Folksy. Ebullient. Thrilling. These are all words that I found while researching Dvorak’s 8th symphony. Dvorak’s gift for writing the most gorgeous of melodies is on full display in his 8th symphony, a piece that...

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The piano: a musical history: From players who captivated audiences to composers who pushed boundaries, Susan Tomes explores the history of the piano.

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Movement One – A Burning Denunciation of the Creator

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My Top 25 Favorite Moments in Classical Music (Part 1): What 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....

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What Does a Conductor Really Do?: Have 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...

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Brahms Symphony No. 4: Welcome to Season 9 of Sticky Notes! We're starting with a bang this season with Brahms' incomparable 4th symphony. This symphony takes the listener on a journey that unexpectedly ends in a legendarily dramatic and stormy way. What would compel a...

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My 25 Favorite Moments in Classical Music (Part 2)

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Sibelius Violin Concerto: There’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...

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Brahms B Major Piano Trio: When 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...

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Mahler Symphony No. 2 - 1st Movement - Listening Guide

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Brahms Symphony No. 1: Brahms 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...

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Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste: Bartok’s Music for Strings Percussion and Celeste is a perfect encapsulation of Bartok’s musical output. Each movement provides us with a magnifying glass into some of the qualities that made Bartok one of the greatest composers of the 20th...

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Music History Monday: Benjamin Britten War Requiem: We mark the premiere performance on May 30, 1962 – 60 years ago today – of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem.

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Legacy Conversations #6: John Mauceri: The esteemed American conductor talks about the history and the aesthetic of music written in Hollywood during the Golden Age era and how it led to the rise of John Williams. Hosted by Maurizio Caschetto There are very few musicians in the world who can ...

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Classical Classroom, Episode 152: Emerson String Quartet. 40.: Like Adele but slightly older.

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The Music of Film Composers: Film music began as a solution to a problem. Early film projectors were really loud, therefore something was needed to cover up all the noise.  In addition, silent movies apparently seemed a bit awkward without any musical accompaniment. ...

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Debussy String Quartet: Just 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...

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Beethoven Op. 18 String Quartets, Part 1: In 1798, Beethoven, all of 28 years old, was about to begin a project that would take him to the last days of his life, a project that would result in some of the most far-reaching, most cosmic, most life-affirming, most dramatic, and simply put, some...

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In the Beginning was Sound: Musician and conductor Daniel Barenboim examines the physical phenomenon of sound.

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Listening Tips: Baroque Music: In a new series, which we'll alternate with our instrument breakdowns, we provide five tips for listening to a certain style of music. Today's episode is on Baroque music, an era that included some of the most famous and well-respected composers, includi...

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Janacek Sinfonietta: Along with Antonin Dvorak and Bedrich Smetana, Leos Janacek is known as one of the three great Czech composers. He was born in Moravia, part of the Austrian Empire at the time, and became passionately interested in studying the folk music of his...

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Beethoven: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and influence of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

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Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1: In almost every one of the past shows I’ve done about Shostakovich, the name Joseph Stalin is mentioned almost as much as the name Dmitri Shostakovich, and of course, there’s a good reason for that. Shostakovich’s life and music was inextricably...

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The Power of Music: Daniel Barenboim considers the difference between power and strength in music and in life.

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Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8: What 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...

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Bartok Violin Duos and Social Duoing: Bartok's 44 Violin Duos are a triumph of Bartok's devotion to the folk music of Eastern Europe. 42 of the 44 are based on field recordings Bartok collected in his travels, many of which you will hear today. The social duoing project, where I played...

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A Conversation with Martin Fröst: "The Highest Feeling You Can Get is that Someone Got Better": Martin 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...