Playlist: Josh Nannestad's Portfolio
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Movie music: yea or nay?
From KWIT | Part of the Listen to This! series | 52:50
Some discerning listeners detest the idea of hearing movie scores... but are you missing something you might love?
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- Movie music: yea or nay?
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Those who feel that movie scores are somehow "less than" abstract classical music are not making a new argument. Debate raged through the Romantic era about whether that told a specific story was inferior to "absolute" music. We will hear the western art music that influenced John Williams before Star Wars, and several film scores by composers that you already know.
Serious, but not snooty
From KWIT | Part of the Listen to This! series | 53:49
The very different styles of music embraced by American musicologist Joshua Rifkin
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- Serious, but not snooty
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- KWIT
JS Bach cantatas and Scott Joplin rags - which find their comonality in the figure of American musicoogist Joshua Rifkin. BWV 80 with the Montreal Baroque, plus works byJoplin, Ernesto Nazareth, and Justin Holland.
Durufle and Company
From KWIT | 53:34
Works from French composers of the twentieth century: Durufle, Vierne, and Poulenc
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- Durufle and Company
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Choral works by Durufle, organ works by Vierne (including a historic recording by the composer), and chamber music by Poulenc.
Durufle and Company
From KWIT | 53:34
Works from French composers of the twentieth century: Durufle, Vierne, and Poulenc
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- Durufle and Company
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- KWIT
Choral works by Durufle, organ works by Vierne (including a historic recording by the composer), and chamber music by Poulenc.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Friends
From KWIT | Part of the Listen to This! series | 52:45
SCT's most popular work, Song of Hiawatha, along with some shorter works by his teachers and associates.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Song of Hiawatha
Florence Price: Sympathy and Resignation
C.V. Stanford: Beati Quorum Via
Florence Price: Scherzo from Piano Quintet in a minor
Justin Holland: Sweet Dreams of Thee
March Madness
From KWIT | Part of the Listen to This! series | 52:51
Move smartly forward to this collection of marches, with some surprises
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- March Madness
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Sousa Liberty Bell Boston Pops/John Williams
King: Barnum and Bailey’s Favorite Cleveland Sym Winds/Fennell
Elgar: Coronation March Royal Philharmonic Yehudi Menuhin
Berlioz Hungarian March Montreal/Dutoit
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody #15
Hanson piano concerto mvmt. 2
Stravinksy Histoire du Soldat soldier’s march
Rachmaninoff Vigil, second movement
Grieg Triumphal March from Sigurd Jorsalfar USAF Band of the Golden West
Gianni Schicchi
From KWIT | Part of the Listen to This! series | 52:28
A nearly-complete performance of Puccini's one-act opera, with guidance and comments interspersed
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- Gianni Schicchi
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Gianni Schicchi, (Puccini) London Symphony, conducted by Antonio Pappano
The Ides of March
From KWIT | Part of the Listen to This! series | 53:28
The Ides of March brings us some extended works from Shakespeare, with the assistance of Verdi and Elgar.
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- The Ides of March
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The Ides of March Verdi: Otello, Willow Scene and Ave Maria Renee Fleming, LSO/Solti. Elgar: Falstaff, a Symphonic Study in c minor OSMontreal/Dutoit 