Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
Sticky Notes is a classical music podcast for everyone, whether you are just getting interested in classical music for the first time, or if you've been listening to it and loving it all your life. Interviews with great artists, in depth looks at pieces in the repertoire, and both basic and deep di...
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Barber Violin Concerto
There are so many great apocryphal stories in the long history of classical music, from the reason Tchaikovsky wrote his Sixth Symphony to what famous...
100 Years of Beethoven's Eroica (recordings)
One of my favorite things about having Patreon sponsors is that they often suggest the most fascinating pieces and topics for shows. Adrian, who spons...
The Life and Music of Grazyna Bacewicz
The great Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski said this after the premature death of his contemporary Grazyna Bacewicz: “She was born with an incredibl...
Sticky Notes meets You'll Hear It
I had such a wonderful time joining the jazz podcast You'll Hear It! We talked about the meeting of jazz and classical music, a topic I've explored be...
Impressions in Blue: Ravel & Gershwin
In the mid-1920s, Maurice Ravel wrote a letter to the legendary composition teacher Nadia Boulanger. Boulanger’s class was a mecca for composers, both...
Beethoven Piano Sonata in B Flat Major, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier" - Part 2
There is a special category when it comes to Beethoven; a catalogue that doesn’t include complete symphonies, sonatas, concerti, string quartets, etc....
Beethoven Piano Sonata in B♭ major, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier" - Part 1
Beethoven once wrote to his publisher: “What is difficult, is also beautiful, good, great, and so forth. Hence everyone will realize that this is the...
Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
The collaboration between Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht is rightly legendary. The two men could not have been more different from each other, and like...
The Ravel Sound with Norbert Müllemann and Stefan Knüpfer
I so enjoyed making this latest episode in my collaboration with G Henle Publishers. I talked with two absolute experts in their fields, Norbert Mülle...
Dvorak Violin Concerto
Admit it: if you're a fan of classical music—or even just a regular concertgoer—you might have glanced at the title of this episode and done a double...
Brahms Double Concerto
It’s entirely possible that we would not know the name of Johannes Brahms very well if Brahms hadn’t met Joseph Joachim as a very young man. Joachim,...
Copland Clarinet Concerto
The commission for a new Clarinet Concerto from the great American composer Aaron Copland came from a rather unlikely source: Benny Goodman, the man k...
Steve Reich: Different Trains
Steve Reich, the great American contemporary composer, provided this program note about his work Different Trains: “The idea for the piece came from m...
Best of Frenemies: Debussy and Ravel
Debussy and Ravel are often described as the prototypical musical impressionists. It is often said that the two composers are the closest equivalents...
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1
It’s hard to overstate the depth of the connection between Dmitri Shostakovich and the legendary cellist Mstistlav Rostropovich. Shostakovich and Rost...
Ravel, Ravel, Ravel, w/Boris Giltburg and G. Henle Verlag!
Magician, Swiss Watchmaker, Aloof, Elegant, Precise, Soulful, Childlike, Naive, Warm: these are all words that have been used to describe Maurice Rave...
Amy Beach, "Gaelic" Symphony
Amy Beach is a name that might not be familiar to you. She was born in 1867 and died in 1944, and her life was one of the most fascinating and varied...
Sticky Notes en Français! Shostakovich Symphonie No. 13 (Bonus Episode)
Voici un épisode bonus spécial de Sticky Notes en français, en avant-première de mes concerts avec l'Orchestre National de Lille, présentant la 13e sy...
Smetana: Ma Vlast
Nationalism, patriotism, cultural identity, a sense of home; these are concepts and ideas whose popularity have ebbed and flowed throughout history. N...
Berg Violin Concerto
In the early 1930s, at the height of the atonal and twelve tone movement in music, the American violinist Louis Krasner commissioned a concerto from t...
Beethoven String Quartet, Op. 135
There is nothing like hearing a Late Beethoven String Quartet for the first time. Beethoven’s late string quartets, Op. 127, Op. 130, Op. 131, Op. 132...
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique LIVE w/ The Aalborg Symphony
I'm so happy to share this live episode of Sticky Notes that I did with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra in Denmark back in October! This episode covere...
Shostakovich Symphony No. 8
Here are two statements by Dmitri Shostakovich about the same piece, the 8th symphony that we are talking about today:
Statement No. 1, Shostako...
Literary Works in Classical Music
My Patreon sponsor for this episode, Adrian, set me a challenge: The influence of literary works on classical compositions, exploring pieces inspired...
Brahms Clarinet Quintet
The muses were Ancient Greek goddesses of inspiration. Throughout history, the term muse has been used to describe any number of people, all of whom i...
Politics in Classical Music
Classical music and politics have never been easy bedfellows. Composers and performers throughout history have relied on patronage and support from we...
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from Westside Story
The original production of Westside Story ran for 732 performances, spawned a movie that won 11 Academy Awards, and is still a go to on every list of...
A Conversation with Composer Caroline Shaw
Caroline Shaw is one of the most fascinating, innovative, and brilliant composers of our time. Since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2013, she rocketed...
Ives Three Places in New England
In 1929, the conductor Nicolas Slonimsky contacted the American composer Charles Ives about performing one of his works. This was a bit of a surprise...
William Grant Still Symphony No. 1, "Afro-American"
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On October 29th, 1931, The Rochester Philharmonic in New York...
Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue
"It was on the train, with its steely rhythms, its rattle-ty bang, that is so often so stimulating to a composer – I frequently hear music in the very...
Bartok Violin Concerto No. 2
During Bartok’s life, the violin concerto we now know as Violin Concerto No. 2 was simply known as Bartok’s only violin concerto. The reason? His firs...
Dvorak Symphony No. 7
In December of 1884, Dvorak wrote to a friend about the composition of a new symphony: "I am now busy with this symphony for London, and wherever I go...
Shostakovich Symphony No. 4
Shostakovich’s 4th symphony is not for the faint of heart. It is a massive work, around an hour in length, and it calls for the second largest orchest...
Beethoven Symphony No. 5
They are the most famous 8 notes in not only Western Music, but probably in all of music. If you walk down the street and ask someone to name a painti...
Mozart Requiem
This show is a bit different today. Last year I did a live video podcast on Mozart's Requiem for my Patreon subscribers. I've now edited that show int...
The Life and Music of Lili Boulanger
The history of classical music is littered with the stories of great composers who tragically died young. The composer I’ve been talking about for the...
Schubert Sonata in B Flat, D. 960 (Part 2)
There are a few tropes when it comes to Schubert’s late music. The pieces are very long. They have four movements. The first two movemnts are expansi...
Schubert Sonata in B Flat, D. 960 (Part 1)
For a long time I’ve received emails and messages from people asking, and sometimes demanding, that I explore the solo piano repertoire. Other than a...
Mozart Piano Concerto in D Minor, K. 466
H.C. Robbins Landon, the great musicologist, once wrote about Mozart that his music was “an excuse for mankind's existence and a small hope for our ul...