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New York Philharmonic Podcast
New York Philharmonic
Experience the music and meet artists from Philharmonic concerts. The hosts are Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and New York's 96.3 FM WQXR host Elliott Forrest and radio producer, Mark Travis. Enhance your concert experience through these previews that include musical selections and interviews with musicians and music experts.
156 Episodes
Conductor Christoph von Dohnányi shares his thoughts on Brahms's stormy Piano Concerto No. 1, which Radu Lupu performs with the New York Philharmonic, as well as on Dvorák's Symphony No. 8. Podcast host Mark Travis, composer/conductor Victoria Bond, and Philharmonic Director of Education Theodore Wiprud also contribute to the understanding of the history and highlights of these two pillars of the repertoire.
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Podcast host Mark Travis speaks with Christoph von Dohnányi about the program he is leading, comprising the "Beethovenesque" Con brio, Concert Overture for Orchestra, by Jörg Widmann, as well as Schumann's Fourth Symphony and Brahms's Second Piano Concerto, which will feature Yefim Bronfman as soloist. Composer and conductor Victoria Bond also sheds light on the history of the Schumann symphony, and Mr. Travis guides you through highlights of the Brahms concerto.
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Podcast host Mark Travis shares the history and impact of Mozart's penultimate symphony, No. 40, and talks with baritone Thomas Hampson about Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, settings of poems Rückert wrote reacting to the death of his children. Philharmonic Artistic Administrator John Mangum discusses Thomas Adès's In Seven Days (Concerto for Piano with Moving Image) — a musical exploration of the creation story in Genesis — which will feature the composer as pianist as well as imagery created by video artist Tal Rosner.
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Alan Gilbert discusses the program, which features New York Philharmonic musicians as soloists. Podcast host Elliott Forrest is joined by composers Aaron Jay Kernis — whose a Voice, a Messenger will receive its World Premiere, featuring Principal Trumpet Philip Smith — and Christopher Rouse, whose Oboe Concerto will receive its New York Premiere, with Principal Oboe Liang Wang, soloist. Also discussed are Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins, featuring violinists of the Philharmonic, Hindemith’s Horn Concerto, Principal Horn Philip Myers, soloist; and Director of Education Theodore Wiprud explores the sensual power of Ravel’s Boléro.
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Podcast host Elliott Forrest is joined by composer-conductor Joelle Wallach in a lively discussion of the operatic origins and secular traditions of Handel's Messiah, a perennial favorite that will be performed by the New York Philharmonic in five concerts conducted by Baroque specialist Bernard Labadie.
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This special podcast is designed especially to acquaint young listeners with the themes and music of our December 4, 2010 Young People’s Concert - Ages of Music, which features Baroque music of the 17th and 18th centuries, including music by Bach and Handel.
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Violinist Nikolaj Znaider discusses Elgar's Violin Concerto, which he will be playing on the very instrument that was used at the work's premiere 100 years ago. Composer-conductor Victoria Bond travels back in time to explore what Mozart was doing when he wrote his Symphony No. 36, Linz, and joins podcast host Mark Travis in a discussion of Elgar's Introduction and Allegro — a work the composer described as "a devil of a fugue" — and his Violin Concerto, considered by many to be one of Elgar's most personal expressions in music.
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Podcast host Elliott Forrest explores the first work on this program, Beethoven's Symphony No. 2, and is joined by Philharmonic Director of Education Theodore Wiprud, who shares a letter Beethoven wrote at the time in which he reflected on his own increasing isolation due to his deafness. The Philharmonic's season-long Focus on Mahler continues with Des Knaben Wunderhorn; tenor Ian Bostridge discusses his role as a soloist in these performances — the first time he will sing the complete work with orchestra.
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Alan Gilbert expresses his and the Orchestra's enthusiasm for presenting CONTACT!, the New York Philharmonic's new-music series, and discusses the experience of making musical contact with New York audiences in a less formal setting. Podcast host Elliott Forrest explores the works programmed on this season's CONTACT! concerts with Philharmonic Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg, and the composers on the programs: Julian Anderson, James Matheson, and Jay Alan Yim.
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Joining podcast host Elliott Forrest is Spanish conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, who discusses the thematic connection between the works on this mostly Russian program — from Glinka's boisterous Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto to Debussy's Nocturnes and Stravinsky's Suite from The Firebird. Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos shares a musical exploration of the romanticism of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.
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