A Year in Classical Music

Bruckner was 12 years old at the start of 1837. He had just begun to compose music, so this episode of A Year in Classical Music is a good place to discuss his childhood and the development of his character. […] Click here to continue reading a transcript of this podcast.

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Bruckner,

organ preludes

Erkel,

Duo brillant en forme de fantaisie sur des airs hongrois concerante

Auber,

Le Domino Noir

Adolf von Henselt was known as the Chopin of Germany. He was skilled enough a pianist and composer to deserve the comparison. Henselt wrote harmonically advanced piano miniatures […] Click here to continue reading a transcript of this podcast.

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Adolf von Henselt,

Poeme d’Amour, op. 3

Ole Borneman Bull,

Cantabile Doloroso e Rondo Giocoso

Hector Berlioz,

Grande Messe des Morts

Hector Berlioz,

Benvenuto Cellini

By 1837, Giacomo Meyerbeer was the star composer of the Paris Opéra. He had premiered his opera Robert le diable there in 1831. It was a sensational success, but Meyerbeer outdid himself with his next opera, Les Huguenot, which had premiered at Paris in the spring of 1836. […] Click here to continue reading a transcript of this podcast.

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Meyerbeer,

“Hör ich das Liedchen Klingen”,

“Scirocco”, “La Folle de St. Joseph”,

“Chant de Mai”

Meyerbeer,

“Komm du Schönes Fischermädchen”,

“Menschenfeindlich”

Meyerbeer,

“Mina (Lied des

Venezianischen Gondoliers)”

Meyerbeer,

“La Fille de l’Air”

Meyerbeer,

“La Marguerite du Poète”

Hensel,

“Die Schiffende”,

“Wanderlied”

Hensel,

“Bright Be the Place of

Thy Soul”, “Farewell”

Hensel,

“Warum Sind Denn

Die Rosen So Blaß?”

Hensel,

“Ach, Die Augen

Sind Es Wieder”

Hensel,

“Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai”

Hensel,

“Sprich, O Sprich”

Hensel,

selections from her

unpublished 1837 piano cycle

Heinrich,

The Ornithological Combat of Kings, or The Condor

of the Andes and the Eagle of the Cordilleras

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AYICM: 1837, vol. 4

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Spanish guitarist and composer Fernando Sor was born in 1778. He grew up at Montserrat, which is just outside Valencia, halfway up the east coast of Spain on the Mediterranean. In 1808, when Sor was 30 […] Click here to continue reading a transcript of this podcast.

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Fernando Sor

Trois Petits Divertissements, op. 61

Mikhail Glinka,

Kheruvimskaya

Liszt, Douze Grandes Études

Liszt, Douze Grandes Études

Mayer, Liszt vs. Thalberg

Thalberg, Fantasia on Moïse

Liszt, Hexaméron Variations

Liszt, Grand Duo “Le Marin”

Schubert/Liszt, Lob der Tränen

Rossini/Liszt, Soirées Musicales

Berlioz/Liszt, Marche des Pèlerins

Berlioz/Liszt: Ouverture du Roi Lear

Berlioz/Liszt,

Harold en Italie

Liszt,

Fantasia on Beethoven’s “Ruins of Athens”

Beethoven/Liszt, Symphony no. 5

Beethoven/Liszt: Symphony no. 6

Beethoven/Liszt: Symphony no. 7

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AYICM: 1837, vol. 3 — I. Sor, Glinka, Liszt

AYICM: 1837, vol. 3 — II. Beethoven/Liszt

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If I could have seen the world from the perspective of any one classical musician, if it were for the sake of being able to meet as many of Europe's legendary musicians as possible, I think I'd choose Johann Nepomuk Hummel. […] Click here to continue reading a transcript of this podcast.

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Hummel, Ballet Music for Das Zauberglöcken

Lortzing, Zar und Zimmermann

Chopin, Impromptu in A-flat, op. 29

Chopin, Nocturnes op. 32

Chopin, Moja Pieszczotka, op. 74 no. 12

Chopin, Mazurkas op. 30 & 33

Chopin, Scherzo no. 2 in B-flat Minor, op. 31

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AYICM: 1837, vol. 2

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There was not a state of Italy in 1837, but the Italian unification movement was well underway. The Italian peninsula at the time was a collection of city-states and duchies and kingdoms, which had been reconstituted by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, after the Napoleonic wars. […] Click here to continue reading a transcript of this podcast.

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Cherubini, String Quartet no. 6

Cherubini, String Quintet in E Minor

Mercadante, Il Giuramento

Donizetti, Messa di Gloria

Donizetti, Pia de’ Tolomei (highlights)

Donizetti, Pia de’ Tolomei

Donizetti, Roberto Devereux

Donizetti, Maria de Rudenz

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AYICM: 1837, vol. 1 — I. Cherubini, Donizetti

AYICM: 1837, vol. 1 — II. Donizetti: Maria de Rudenz

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Of all early Modernism, it’s Anton Webern’s music that’s most abstract and challenging. Introducing this music in the foreword to his six-CD set of the composer’s complete works, Pierre Boulez speaks of the “purity” of Webern’s “asceticism.” […] Click here to continue reading a transcript of this podcast.

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Webern, Two Songs op. 19

Webern, Two Songs op. 19

Milhaud, Le Carnaval d’Aix

Milhaud, Le Pauvre Matelot

Milhaud, Le Pauvre Matelot

Milhaud, Le Pauvre Matelot

Poulenc, Chansons Gaillardes

Poulenc, Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano

Poulenc, Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano

Listen Online to Music Featured on This Episode:

AYICM: 1926, vol. 14

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Most music historians recognize Igor Stravinsky to be the most influential composer of classical music in the 20th century. They talk about three kinds of “liberation” involved in the Modernist revolution in music […] Click here to continue reading a transcript of this podcast.

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Stravinsky, Otche Nash

Antheil, Piano Concerto no. 2

Gotovac, Simfonijsko Kolo

Schmidt, Three Fantasy Pieces

Schmidt, Piano Quintet in G

Schmidt, Four Small Chorale Preludes

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AYICM: 1926, vol. 13

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Just as Mark Twain had been the first writer to create a indigenous American style in literature — the first American author who wasn’t just a transplanted European — Charles Ives was the first composer to create an indigenous American style in classical music. His music is experimental and aggressively Modernist, so it’s not as immediately agreeable as Duke Ellington or Aaron Copland, but it evokes the American experience with an eloquence and candor that few other classical composers have matched, and none have exceeded. […] Click here to continue reading a transcript of this podcast.

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Ives, Sunrise

Ives, Orchestral Set no. 3

Holst, The Golden Goose

Holst, The Planets (1923)

Holst, The Planets (1926)

Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto no. 4 (1926)

Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto no. 4 (1927)

Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto no. 4 (1941)

Rachmaninoff, Three Russian Songs

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AYICM: 1926, vol. 12

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Especially if you're an American afficianado of classical music, the name Dohnányi might first call to mind Christoph von Dohnányi, the conductor who led the Cleveland Orchestra as music director from 1984 to 2002. But even more important a musician than Christoph was his grandfather, the Hungarian composer, pianist, and conductor Ernő Dohnányi. […] Click here to continue reading a transcript of this podcast.

 

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Dohnányi, String Quartet no. 3

Atterberg, Orchestral Suite no. 7

Atterberg, Horn Concerto

Finzi, A Young Man's Exhortation

Finzi, Three Drummond Elegies

Finzi, Nocturne: New Year Music

Bax, Symphony no. 2

Bax, Romantic Overture

Bax, Walsinghame

Bax, Piano Sonata no. 3

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AYICM: 1926, vol. 11 — I. Dohnányi, Atterberg, Finzi

AYICM: 1926, vol. 11 — II. Bax

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