That's Classical?

That's Classical?

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That's Classical? episodes

  • That’s Classical? - Episode February 16, 2025

    Playlist:
    • Alice Ping Yee Ho, Katherine Dowling - The Weeping Woman
    • Andrew Balfour, Luminous Voices - Ispiciwin
    • Florence Price, Pacifica Quartet - String Quartet in G Major
    • Alex Van Gils, Friction Quartet - A Sleeptalker Describes the Rising of the Seas
    • Joseph Schwantner, National Symphony Orchestra - New Morning for the World: "Daybreak of Freedom"
    • Ayanna Woods, The Crossing - Shift
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  • That’s Classical? - Episode February 9, 2025

    Playlist:
    • Bryce Dessner, Australian String Quartet - Pulsing
    • Frank Horvat, Christina Petrowska-Quilico - More Rivers (Excerpts)
    • Nabil Benagdeljalil, Rebeca Omordia - Frisson de la Nuit
    • W. C. Handy, James Martin, Lynn Raley - Harlem Blues
    • Linda Kouvaras, Coady Green - Shoalhaven Nightpainters
    • Joanna Marsh, Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir - A Plastic Theatre
    • Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra - Alikeness
    • Theresa Wong, Splinter Reeds - Letters to a Friend
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  • That’s Classical? - Episode February 2, 2025

    Playlist:
    • Hauschka - Mount Hood
    • Jon Jang, Gloria Cheng - Ancestors & Sisters
    • David Crowell, Mak Grgic, Daniel Lippel - Pacific Coast Highway
    • Julius Eastman - Evil N****r
    • Kevin Lau, Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra - The Infinite Reaches
    • Jóhann Jóhannson - Heptapod B
    • Alice Ping Yee Ho, Katherine Dowling - Solus
    • Paul Halley, Benda Quartet - String Quartet No. 2
    • Theo Loevendie, Roctet - Changes
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  • That’s Classical? - Episode January 26, 2025
    Grammy nominees for Best Contemporary Classical Composition

    Playlist:
    • Harry Somers, The Louisville Orchestra - Passacaglia & Fugue for Orchestra
    • Andrea Casarrubios - SEVEN
    • Valerie Coleman, Decoda - Revelry
    • David Lang, eighth blackbird - Composition as Explanation - there is singularly nothing
    • Gabriela Ortiz, Los Angeles Philharmonic - Revolucion Diamantina - Act 1 The Sounds cats make
    • Kaija Saariaho, San Francisco Symphony - Adriana Mater - Act I Tableau: Clartes
    • Stewart Goodyear, Penderecki String Quartet - Homage
    • Graham Fitkin, Sacconi Quartet - RECUR
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  • That’s Classical? - Episode January 19, 2025

    Playlist:
    • Thomas Metcalf, NYCGB Fellowship - H(Ai)ku
    • Florence Price, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centre - Piano Quintet in A Minor
    • Mary Howe, Juliana Soltis, Ruoting Li - Ballade Fantasque
    • Bryce Dessner, Nadia Sirota - Delphica
    • Christopher Tyler Nickel, Vancouver Contemporary Orchestra - Concerto for Four Wagner Tubas
    • Caroline Shaw, The Crossing & Donald Nally - Ochre
    • Arthur Bachmann, Luminous Voices - Weepe You No More
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  • That’s Classical? - Episode January 12, 2025
    The Best Albums of 2024

    Playlist:
    • Dmitri Shostakovich, Trio Messiaen, Trio Xenakis - Symphony No. 15 Mvt 1. Allegretto
    • Wojciech Kilar, Australian Chamber Orchestra - Orawa
    • John Cage, Bertrand Chamayou - Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
    • Julius Eastman, Wild Up - The Holy Presence of Joan D'arc
    • David Crowell, Mak Grgic, Daniel Lippel - Pacific Coast Highway
    • Nat Bartsch, Matt Withers, Sally Whitwell - Where We Were
    • Ana Lara, Portland Symphony Orchestra - Angeles de Llama y hielo - I. Angel de tinieblas
    • Caroline Shaw, Sō Percussion - To Music
    • George Walker, Miro Quartet - Quartet No. 1 Mvt II. Molto Adagio
    • Jocelyn Morlock, collectif9 - Exaudi
    • Dani Howard, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Coalescence
    • Edmund Finnis, 12 Ensemble - Hymn (After Bird)
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  • That’s Classical? - Episode January 5, 2025
    In memoriam: Composers & conductors we lost in 2024

    Playlist:
    • Sarah Gibson, Jennifer Koh - You Are Still Here
    • Peter Schickele - New Horizons in Music Appreciation
    • Peter Schickele - Prelude to Einstein on the Fritz
    • Peter Eotvos, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra - Replica for Viola & Orchestra
    • Phill Niblock - Didjeridoos and Don'ts
    • Alcides Lanza, Catherine Meunier - Diastemas
    • Toru Takemitsu, Seiji Ozawa & Toronto Symphony Orchestra - Requiem for String Orchestra
    • Jack Behrens, Bianca Baciu - Homage to Rachmaninoff
    • Peter Schickele, The Lark Quartet - Quintet No. 2 for Piano & Strings
    • Wolfgang Rihm, Alarm Will Sound - Will Sound
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  • That’s Classical? - Episode December 29, 2024

    Playlist:
    • Bryce Dessner, Colin Currie - Tromp Miniature
    • Pamela Harrison, Alice Neary, Jams Coleman - Cello Sonata
    • Christopher Ducasse, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir - O nata lux
    • Ferdinando DeSena, Juventas New Music Ensemble - Rest in Peace
    • Ensemble 0 - Florent Plays Harmonium,JF plays Ebows, Antoine Pays Modular Synth, Sylvain Plays Melodica, Maxime Plays Field Recordings and it Lasts 12:27
    • Jacques Hétu, Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec - Symphony No. 5
    • Ed Hughes, New Music Players - In ieiunio et fletu
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  • That’s Classical? - Episode December 22, 2024
    Merry Christmas!

    Playlist:
    • Bryce Dessner, Australian String Quartet - Alarms
    • Anna Clyne, The Knights - Prince of Clouds
    • Roland Martin Roberts, Robert Irvine - Elegy for the Children of War
    • Kate Whitley, 12 Ensemble - Autumn Songs
    • Thierry Escaich, Trio Messiaen, Trio Xenakis - Vitrail
    • Stuart Beatch, Luminous Voices - Girl Hours
    • James Lee III, Pacifica Quartet, Uniting Voices - Pitch In
    • Kevin Puts, Minnesota Opera - Silent Night (Excerpts)
    • Pierre Jodlowski, Trio Xenakis - 24 Loops
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  • That’s Classical? - Episode December 15, 2024

    Playlist:
    • Judith Weir, BBC Symphony Orchestra - Still, Glowing
    • Matteo Gualandi, Marie Ythier - fotografie rarissime diangeli
    • Alice Ping Yee Ho, Katherine Dowling - Shade
    • Anna Clyne, Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Within Her Arms
    • Margaret Brouwer, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra - Pluto
    • Bryce Dessner, Anastasia Kobekina - Tuusula
    • Tim Brady - Five Times: four guitars
    • Morten Jessen, Natalia Gordeyeva - Kyiv
    • Wojciech Kilar, Australian Chamber Orchestra - Orawa
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“We live in a time I think not of mainstream, but of many streams, or even, if you insist upon a river of time, that we have come to a delta, maybe even beyond delta to an ocean which is going back to the skies.”