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Talk Like An Opera Geek: The Birth Of Opera At the dawn of the 17th century, take a trip through the earliest days of a brand new art form. |
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New York Polyphony: A Vocal Quartet Takes On Death A haunting program of early a cappella vocal works focused on death, loss and the sobering prospect of having to face one's own mortality. |
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Joyce El Khoury And Brian Jagde: Tiny Desk Concert Soprano Joyce El-Khoury and tenor Brian Jagde are young, fresh-faced opera singers at the dawn of promising careers. Here, their deliciously sung Puccini reverberates off the walls of NPR Music. |
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Around The Classical Internet: February 17, 2012 Netrebko and Gergiev dip into Russian politics, Elgar reemerges and Mahler rocks Caracas: all the news that's fit to link. |
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As Newspapers Falter, Music Critics Roam Free Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon on Deceptive Cadence. |
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Why Do People Hate Rap And Opera? When it comes to musical preferences, the two genres act like lightning rods for scorn. |
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Hear instrumental versions of Son Lux's most recent album We Are Rising. |
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Music Library Reviews: di Vittorio and Servais
In this series, Classical 91.7's music librarian Chris Hathaway reviews new additions to our ever-growing CD library. This month, Chris reviews new releases featuring new recordings featuring the works of Salvatore di Vittorio and Adrien François Servais.
Playlists for February 20-24: The Violin Concerto
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:00:10 +0000
A sampling of great works for solo violin and orchestra, including concerti by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Sibelius. Monday Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra in e minor, I (excerpt) Concertgebouw Orch/Haitink; Perlman, v. EMI 47074 1:20 Purchase Vivaldi: Autumn from The Four Seasons English Concert/Pinnock; Standage, v. Archiv 400045 :31, 10:17 Purchase J.S. Bach: [...]
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:32:20 +0000
From the Top?s Show 245 was taped at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall in Boston, Massachusetts on Saturday, February 4, 2012. We asked our performers to tell us about the music they performed on the show: Gordon Neidinger, Mandolin, 17 Doina and Variations of the E-Flat Sirba By: Charles Rappaport I think the most important thing [...]
