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The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.
Happy 1 year Outside the MusicBox anniversary! Here is an update about what’s next for this podcast.
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Keyboardist Kristian Bezuidenhout talks about Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, obsessing over recordings as a teenager, and the dichotomy of Bach as both a total genius and also just a working guy.
Useful links:
Spotify playlist for Kristian’s pieces
Spotify playlist for main pieces
Spotify playlist for final question pieces
Other useful links:
Johann Sebastian Bach
St. Matthew Passion background information
English translation of St. Matthew Passion text
Thomaskirche (St. Thomas Church) in Leipzig, Germany, where St. Matthew Passion was premiered
History of St. Matthew Passion being performed in the Netherlands
John Eliot Gardiner
John Eliot Gardiner’s 1989 recording of St. Matthew Passion
Recitative
Aria
Arioso
Chorale
Viola da Gamba, or Viol/Gamba for short
Basso Continuo, or Continuo for short
A discussion on some problematic aspects of the Bach Passions
Support Kristian:
Kris Bezuidenhout’s website, where you can purchase CDs: http://kristianbezuidenhout.com/
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English violist Annette Isserlis talks about 17th-century music by Orlando Gibbons and Henry Purcell, starting out as a ballet dancer, and being swept up in the experience of collective music making.
Useful links:
Spotify playlist for Annette’s pieces
Spotify playlist for main pieces
Spotify playlist for final question pieces
Other useful links:
The Viol
Orlando Gibbons
Plainchant
The “In Nomine” plainchant, which was used as the basis of pieces by many composers throughout history
Henry Purcell
False relations (blue notes)
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Rameau’s Les Boreades
Support Annette:
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s video platform, OAE Player
Annette’s podcast, Tea With Netty
English Baroque Soloists
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French soprano, Julie Roset, talks about Sigismondo d’India’s Infelice Didone and Jules Massenet’s Ah! Douce enfant, how singers’ voices change as they age, and what it’s like pretending to be a fairy.
Useful links:
Spotify playlist for Julie’s pieces
Spotify playlist for main pieces
Spotify playlist for final question pieces
Other useful links:
Sigismondo d’India
Claudio Monteverdi
The story of Dido and Aeneas
Francesco Turrisi’s episode, where we talk about Dido’s Lament, by Henry Purcell
Recitativo vs aria
17th-century Spice Trade Routes with map showing the trading route via Sicily
Jules Massenet
Massenet’s opera, Cendrillon (Cinderella)
MET Opera, New York City
Support Julie:
Julie’s Facebook: @JulieRosetSoprano
Julie’s Instagram: @juthyana
Watch the livestream of Julie’s debut at the Opéra-Comique, Paris
Holland Baroque’s latest CD, Brabant 1653, in which Julie is featured
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Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com
Violinist Shaun Lee-Chen talks about Chausson’s Poeme, the original cycling hipsters, and old recordings.
Useful links:
Spotify playlist for Shaun’s pieces
Spotify playlist for main pieces
Spotify playlist for final question pieces
Other useful links:
Ernest Chausson’s Poeme
Violinist, Eugene Ysaye
Maurice Ravel’s Tzigane
Violinist, Jascha Heifetz
For a deep dive nerd out on 19th-century ways of performing, you can check out Emma’s Masters thesis here: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/561381/563632
Support Shaun:
Shaun playing *viola* in a duet with Christian Li playing violin
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Shaun’s position as lecturer at the University of Western Australia
Shaun playing on the UWA Conservatorium of Music Youtube channel
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Bonus Christmas Special! Emma and Chloe answer more listener questions and wrap up 2020. Stay tuned for more fun times in 2021 Outside the MusicBox!
Rachael Beesley’s work on Flow http://www.rachaelbeesley.com/flow.html
Wonderbound contemporary dance company in Denver, Colorado https://www.wonderbound.com
How scales and keys work in music https://learningmusic.ableton.com/notes-and-scales/keys-and-scales.html
Key Characteristics table https://4c07335b-13d6-47c3-8533-90b0d4feca97.filesusr.com/ugd/bbfdbb_ec35d032a55b44e299fb83b49b349944.pdf
Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/en/the-halls#laeiszhalle
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Composer and cellist Cris Derksen talks about Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, braiding her Cree and Mennonite ancestry, and how her dog might be a witch.
Useful links:
Spotify playlist for Cris’s pieces
Spotify playlist for main pieces
Spotify playlist for final question pieces
Other useful links:
Modest Mussorgsky
Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain
Youtube video of the Night on Bald Mountain bit in the Disney Fantasia movie from 1940
Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition
What is a Powwow
Eybler String Quartet
Support Cris:
Cris’s website: https://www.crisderksen.com/
Facebook: @cris.derksen
Instagram: @cris_derksen
Cris Derksen on Spotify
Cris Derksen on Youtube
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Double bassist Rob Nairn talks about arias by Robert Schumann and Agostino Steffani, his love of opera, and secret bass bonding activities.
Useful links:
Spotify playlist for Rob’s pieces
Spotify playlist for main pieces
Spotify playlist for final question pieces
Other useful links:
Robert Schumann
Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust
Violone
Richard Wagner
Bayreuth Wagner Festival
Agostino Steffani
The story of Niobe in Greek Mythology
Agostino Steffani’s opera Niobe, regina di Tebe
Philippe Jarrousky
Boston Early Music Festival
Opera singer, Maria Callas
Jazz bass clarinetist and saxophonist, Eric Dolphy
Support Rob:
Email: [email protected]
Ironwood’s latest CD: Romantic Dreams: Quintets for Piano and Strings
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Brandenburg One
Adelaide Baroque
Get in touch with us!
DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox
Facebook: @OutsidetheMusicBox
Instagram: @outsidethemusicbox
Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com
Violist Max Mandel talks about Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, making music with friends, and some viola jokes for good measure.
Useful links:
Spotify playlist for Max’s pieces
Spotify playlist for main pieces
Spotify playlist for final question pieces
Other useful links:
Violin vs viola
String Quartet description
Symphony description
Concerto description
Cadenza description
Guy Fishman’s episode (where we talk about cadenzas)
Info on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Background on Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra
The Mannheim Rocket
Julia Wedman’s episode (where we talk about scordatura tuning)
Haydn’s “Joke” string quartet
Viola jokes
Support Max:
OAE Players digital concert platform
Flux Quartet
Spunicunifait
Max’s Twitter: @MaxTMandel
Get in touch with us!
DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox
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Email: [email protected]
Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com
Percussionist Marianna Soroka talks about four different pieces that helped shape her life, sharing the stage with live horses in a 90’s Polish opera house, and the history of the frame drum.
Useful links:
Spotify playlist for Marianna’s pieces
Spotify playlist for main pieces
Spotify playlist for final question pieces
Other useful links:
Modest Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov full opera on Youtube: Acts I and II , Acts III and IV
Early Russian Orthodox choral singing
Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Bogoroditse Devo (the choir piece Emma sang in youth choir where everyone took sneaky breaths to keep the phrase going forever)
Buddy Rich
Live video of Buddy Rich playing (so you can see his “driving” way of playing the drums)
Leszek Możdżer
Frame drums
Percussionist Zohar Fresco playing frame drums in their traditional Arabic setting
Portuguese square frame drum
Bodhran (Irish frame drum)
Steve Reich
Short documentary on Steve Reich talking about his music
Reich’s Clapping Music
Support Marianna:
Website: mariannasoroka.com
Instagram: marianna_soroka
Get in touch with us!
DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox
Facebook: @MusicBoxConcerts
Instagram: @musicboxconcerts
Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com
The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.