Simon Webster
For centuries, composers have paid tribute to St. Cecilia, remembered on November 22nd, leading to a fascinating tapestry of musical expression.
Dario Acosta: Brenfman; Marco Borggreve: Nelsons
GBH Music brings free live performances to public schools, homeless shelters, and the GBH Studio at the Boston Public Library
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Fall is for sad love songs, jazz spirituals, sleeping in, and pie. Lots of pie. Get your fill in this month's Instant Replay. -
Walt Disney’s spookiest “Silly Symphony” launched a new approach to classical music in cartoons, but its roots go as far back as the medieval Black Plague. -
Japanese composer, columnist and iconoclast Takashi Yoshimatsu evokes babbling brooks, chirping birds, and delicate beauty in this radically pastoral album featuring Sachio Fujioka and the Manchester Camerata. -
20 years after first moving to the United States, violinist Augustin Hadelich's newest recording is a celebration of the kaleidoscopic tapestry of American classical music.
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Watch a celebration of Serge Koussevitzky's 150th birthday, as the Boston Symphony Chamber Players salute the former BSO Music Director's profound impact on the music of his time. -
Watch violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing and pianist Llewellyn Sanchez–Werner take an extraordinary sonic journey to Scandinavia while exploring themes of environmentalism, climate change, and our connection to nature.
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On The Bach Hour, conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini leads his Italian ensemble in unique re-imaginings of the composer's music, and Konrad Junghänel conducts the Missa Brevis in F. -
Jan Lisiecki is the soloist in Mozart’s mysterious and stormy Piano Concerto No. 20, and conductor Philippe Jordan leads the BSO in Tchaikovsky’s emotionally harrowing Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique.” -
On The Bach Hour, the composer's music for an ancient instrument is filtered through a modern sonic prism by guitarist Stephan Schmidt, and Christophe Coin leads the Cantata No. 115.
From NPR Music
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NPR's A Martínez speaks with Dutch brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen about their new EP, Rêve, featuring piano duets by lesser-known composers influenced by — or rejecting — French Impressionism. -
Riley’s pioneering piece, which premiered 60 years ago, leaves many decisions up to the performers. It helped launch the movement known as minimalism, but In C itself has also survived and changed.
The Bach Hour
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On The Bach Hour, the composer harnesses the mellow lyricism, the astonishing power, and even the historical roots of the horn in his Cantata 52, and horn soloist Radek Baborák brings the instrument's dynamism to a concerto originally for harpsichord.
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