The Next Track

By Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn

Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn discuss music and musicians, and how we listen to music, whether it be analog or digital, downloaded or streamed, audio, or video.... more

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May 01, 2020Episode #180 - Harpsichordist and Conductor Richard Egarr
We talk with harpsichordist, conductor, and "general music addict" Richard Egarr, about original performance practice in early music.
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Guest:
Richard Egarr
Show notes:
Richard Egarr on Harmonia Mundi
Richard Egarr on Linn Records
Academy of Ancient Music
Goldberg Variations
Johann Sebastian Bach's tuning
How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care)
Schubert: Lebenssturme (Richard Egarr's four-hands Schubert recording)
Livestream: Richard Egarr & Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya: Quatre-Mains, May 5
Our next tracks:
J. S. Bach: Suites for Violoncello Solo, Anner Bylsma
The Electric Flag: A Long Time Comin'
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Special Guest: Richard Egarr.
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April 24, 2020Episode #179 - Pianist Marc-André Hamelin
We talk with pianist Marc-André Hamelin, whose repertoire, in more than 60 recordings, covers many little-known composers, as well as a number of twentieth-century works, by composers such as Ives, Rzewski, and Feldman.
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Guest:
Marc-André Hamelin
Show notes:
Marc-André Hamelin on Hyperion Records
Marc-André Hamelin stream for the 92nd Street Y
Rockport Music’s Virtual Gala 2020
Cathy Fuller
Catoire: Piano Music
Ives & Barber: Piano Sonatas
Ives: Three Places in New England, Ruggles: Sun Treader, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas
Charles Ives: Essays Before a Sonata
Ives: Concord Sonata, John Kirkpatrick
Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
Feldman: For Bunita Marcus
Our next tracks:
Morton Feldman: For Philip Guston
The Andrew Oldham Orchestra: The Rolling Stones Songbook
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Special Guest: Marc-André Hamelin.
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44min
April 17, 2020Episode #178 - Lieder and Opera Singer Ian Bostridge
We talk with Ian Bostridge, Kirk's second-favorite lieder singer, about life in lockdown, and about Schubert's Winterreise, the song cycle that Bostridge is best known for, through his many performances, recordings, films, and a book he wrote about it.
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Guest:
Ian Bostridge
Show notes:
Lieder (Wikipedia)
Ian Bostridge – a life in music (Guardian)
Ravel: Chansons madécasses
Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession
Michel Pastoreau: Blue: The History of a Color
Ian Bostridge: Why Winterreise? Schubert’s song cycle, then and now (video, 2014)
Ian Bostridge and Jeremy Denk on Winterreise: Anatomy of an Obsession (video, 2015)
Witchcraft and its Transformations, c.1650-c.1750
Our next tracks:
Ian Bostridge: Winterreise (video, 2016)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Alfred Brendel (video, 1979)- Herbie Hancock: Head Hunters
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Special Guest: Ian Bostridge.
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41min
April 14, 2020Episode #177 - Author Michael Connelly on Music in the Harry Bosch Novels and TV Series
Michael Connelly writes crime fiction, and his character Harry Bosch loves jazz. We talk with Michael about how he decided what music Bosch liked, and how he uses music in the novels and TV series.
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Guest:
Michael Connelly
The Murder Book Podcast
Sound of Redemption – The Frank Morgan Story
Music from Bosch playlist (curated by Amazon)
Bosch playlist (user created on Apple Music)
The house in Bosch
Bosch's stereo system (with a McIntosh 240 tube amplifier)
Apple Music Jazzzzzzzzz playlist
Show notes:
The Music in the Novels
The Bosch TV series
Our next tracks:
Kenny Wheeler: Angel Song
The Derek Trucks Band: Already Free
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Special Guest: Michael Connelly.
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35min
April 10, 2020Episode #176 - How to Stream Music From Your Home
A lot of musicians, suddenly faced with no opportunities for public performance, are opting to stream live from their homes. Andy Doe joins us to discuss what it means for all the musicians to have to build streaming studios in their homes from scratch, and gives tips on how best to set up cameras, lights, and microphones.
Guest:
Andy Doe
Show notes:
Tim Cook's video
Rode NT-USB Mini, a small, inexpensive USB microphone with good audio quality
May Morning - Magdalen College
Impulse response reverb
Alex Ross's COVID-19 livestream list
Our next tracks:
Lou Reed: Street Hassle
DEVO: Duty Now For The Future
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April 07, 2020Episode #175 - Violinist Alina Ibragimova
We chat with violinist Alina Ibragimova, who is taking advantage of the lockdown to learn the Paganini caprices in her home in London.
Guest:
Alina Ibragimova
Alina Ibragimova on Hyperion Records
The Alina Ibragimova Violin Playlist on Apple Music
Show notes:
Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien
Review of Rolf Wallin violin concerto, Proms 2018
Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin
Our next tracks:
Takemitsu: From Me Flows What You Call Time (CD); Berliner Philharmoniker & Yutaka Sado (DVD/Blu-Ray)
Zoë Keating: Into the Trees
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Special Guest: Alina Ibragimova.
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30min
April 03, 2020Episode #174 - Pianist, Composer, and Author Stephen Hough
In this episode, we talk with the pianist and author Stephen Hough, about how the lockdown is affecting him, how he has "the backside of a rhinoceros," and we discuss how classical concerts could change in the future.
Guest:
Stephen Hough
Angela Hewitt on Twitter
Stephen Hough on Hyperion Records
The Stephen Hough Piano Playlist an Apple Music
Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More
Show notes:
I miss concerts but solo music-making seems more sublime than ever (Guardian)
MacArthur Fellows
Episode #18 – New Yorker Music Critic Alex Ross Discusses Listening to Classical Music
Piano Day
Our next tracks:
Nils Frahm: Empty
Fountains Of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers
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Special Guest: Stephen Hough.
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35min
March 31, 2020Episode #173 - Pianist Angela Hewitt
In the first of a number of out-of-band episodes that we're planning to release in the coming weeks, we talk with pianist Angela Hewitt, best known for her extraordinary recordings of all of Bach's keyboard works.
Guest:
Angela Hewitt
Angela Hewitt on Twitter
Angela Hewitt on Hyperion Records
The Angela Hewitt Bach Playlist an Apple Music
The Angela Hewitt Baroque Playlist on Apple Music
Show notes:
Led by the hand (article about Murray Perahia's thumb injury)
Virtuoso mourns beloved £150,000 piano smashed by movers
Fazioli pianos
A Late Quartet
Our next tracks:
Bob Dylan: Murder Most Foul (YouTube)
Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson: Ella And Oscar
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Special Guest: Angela Hewitt.
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36min
March 25, 2020Episode #172 - Social Isolation and Music
These are difficult times for many people, who are now required to stay at home. Music can help us get through this. In this "two guys not in a pub" episode, Doug and Kirk reflect on social isolation and music.
Show notes:
Bus-sized fatberg weighing 40 tonnes cleared from London sewer
GrimeGran's Twitter feed
The Dropkick Murphys - Streaming Up From Boston
Royal Shakespeare Company in cinemas
National Theatre Live
Dead & Company YouTube channel (lots of videos, including full concerts)
The Rolling Stones: Four Flicks
The Berliner Philharmoniker's Digital Concert Hall
Alex Ross's COVID-19 live streams list
TJ Connelly's "Uncertain Times" streamcast (M-F, 10-12 ET)
Rugby Meets Red Rover: Kabaddi Has Captured the Heart of India
Take Control of Working from Home Temporarily
Our next tracks:
Roger Eno and Brian Eno: Mixing Colours
Freak Power: More Of Everything For Everybody
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31min
March 11, 2020Episode #171 - Vintage Audio Gear
While there are lots of reasons to opt for minimal audio equipment, for some people there is an enduring allure for vintage stereo amps and receivers from the hi-fi heydays of the 1970s. The time when audio gear had knobs and dials and VU meters, like the fins and grilles on 1950s cars. We discuss our lust for those baroque audio devices of yore.
Show notes:
How a Digital Guy Fell in Love with a Vintage Stereo Receiver
Braun Regie 550 CEV550 Dieter Rams Design
Flickr stream of vintage hi-fi gear
Quadraphonic sound (Wikipedia)
Onkyo RN855
Yamaha AS-801
Our next tracks:
Robert Fripp at the Kitchen 2/5/78
Hot Tuna: Hoppkorv
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28min

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