What is New Contemporary Classical Music?: Composer and Cellist, Matt Magerkurth stops by to speak with me about his compositions and the musical values that guide his works and practice. Though informed by traditional classical frameworks, he aims to leverage contemporary technologies and interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary languages to explore new modes of sonic self expression.

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Finding the new in the old: BBC Concert Orchestra's Principal Cellist, Benjamin Hughes, stops by to speak about how he fell in love with the cello, Bach's second cello suite, and the many ways building a relationship with history and his practice deepens his love of music everyday. 

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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Sampling: This week we explore one of the most recognizable sounds of classical music, (the opening motif of) Beethoven's Symphony no. 5, and the ways in which sampling further extends the life of this iconic work in the present day. 

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