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Over the next couple of weeks, we take a look into the Polish Heritage of Winona MN. On Saturday, May 1st the Polish community celebrated Polish He...
- Added: Dec 13, 2010
- Length: 00:28:29
This week on The Score – Classical Composers in Film.
- Added: Sep 14, 2010
- Length: 00:59:00
Listen to pianist Jeffrey Kahane & Sebastian Knauer, performing a joint recital at the Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences during the 2010 Savannah ...
Bought by Red River Radio Network and KZYX
- Added: Jun 03, 2010
- Length: 00:59:03
- Purchases: 2
Chopin's Opus 10. It's a set of twelve etudes. Studies - to push and polish pianists' skills…."but in my own style," Chopin emphasized. A la Chopin...
- Added: May 18, 2010
- Length: 00:02:01
"I congratulate you Mummy, on your name-day!
May the heavens fulfill what I feel in my heart
That you should always be well and happy, and
Have the...
- Added: May 18, 2010
- Length: 00:02:05
Most stories about the Funeral March from Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 2 are as somber as the music itself. But one--perhaps a tall tale associated wi...
- Added: May 18, 2010
- Length: 00:02:00
More great chamber music from Spoleto Festival USA with host Lisa Simeone. In addition to a Haydn trio, this concert features contemporary English ...
Bought by KPVL, WGBH Radio Boston, WCQS, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: May 12, 2010
- Length: 00:59:00
- Purchases: 4
“The emotional satisfaction can’t be equaled in any of the other arts. Forgive me, I sound as if I’ve just discovered music.”
- Added: May 07, 2010
- Length: 00:02:00
“A stranger I came, A stranger I depart…” These opening lines of “Good Night”, the first song in Franz Schubert’s cycle, Winterreise, or Winter Jou...
- Added: Apr 29, 2010
- Length: 00:02:00
What do Guns N’ Roses have to do with Chopin? Ask Robert Schumann.
- Added: Apr 28, 2010
- Length: 00:02:00
Pick a piece. Any piece. Chopin’s music generally stirs the soul. But none quite like the Ballade in G minor…
- Added: Apr 28, 2010
- Length: 00:02:00
Pianist Vladimir Feltsman found his privileges suspended, his life threatened and his career in the deep freeze when he applied for an exit visa fr...
- Added: Apr 28, 2010
- Length: 00:02:00
Everybody knows a waltz, right? Like Johann Strauss Jr.’s On the Beautiful Blue Danube.
ONE two three, ONE two three, ONE two three…a waltz! Three...
- Added: Apr 10, 2010
- Length: 00:01:59
He called them “little stories,” and Chopin’s three Opus 56 Mazurkas use the dance form of his native Poland to evoke the past and to dream of the ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2010
- Length: 00:02:00
Chopin never wrote for the bagpipes. And there wasn’t a drop of Scottish blood in him. But even as a teenager he was a dedicated follower of fashio...
- Added: Apr 07, 2010
- Length: 00:02:00
In 1829 Niccolo Paganini wowed Warsaw, playing ten concerts in ten days. The most receptive ears in the audience? They belonged to a nineteen-year-...
- Added: Apr 02, 2010
- Length: 00:02:00
“I have composed something new that I do not know how to name” – Fryderyk Chopin about his Opus 61 Polonaise-Fantasie. (Hosted by Lisa Simeone)
- Added: Mar 17, 2010
- Length: 00:02:00
They called her “Louisette”. Chopin doted on her…and the work she inspired is the composer’s most tender.
- Added: Mar 16, 2010
- Length: 00:02:00
Intended for (optional) broadcast after "Radio Chopin 11: A Chopin Catalogue Aria" from the companion series of 2-minute modules, "Radio Chopin."
- Added: Mar 16, 2010
- Length: 00:02:10
The Nazi invasion of Poland In September of 1939 literally blasted Frederic Chopin's music off the air. But the elegant pianist playing Chopin liv...
- Added: Mar 11, 2010
- Length: 00:02:00
A jazz diplomat finds his Polish roots in Fryderyk Chopin’s home…and all he can say is Dziekuje – “Thank You.”
- Added: Mar 10, 2010
- Length: 00:02:01
Fryderyk Chopin said this about his Op. 41 Mazurkas: “They seem as lovely to me as only youngest children can to an aging parent.”
- Added: Mar 05, 2010
- Length: 00:02:00
"The piece certainly was not well received early on. Early commentators had little use for it. I think it’s just a case of Chopin in his later yea...
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: 00:02:01
How much would you pay for a piano lesson with Chopin? His fee in 1832 was 20 francs – highway robbery if you’re an ordinary piano teacher - but th...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 00:02:00
Chopin's popular Waltz in D-flat, Op. 64, No. 1 is commonly known today as the "Minute" waltz and is commonly pronounced "min' it." A publisher gav...
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 00:02:00
