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You don’t have to be a music-lover to love Beethoven
13 September 2018 42:36Marjolaine Fournier and Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer prepare us for the Festival Focus 2018 featuring all nine Beethoven symphonies. Did he really invent the boogie-woogie? Beethoven offered so much variety within his...
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Anton Bruckner’s eighth symphony with the TSO
13 April 2018 40:06Bruckner scholars seem to focus on psychoanalysis rather than closing their eyes and listening to the music. To listen to Anton Bruckner’s eighth symphony is to listen to the summit...
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Kaija Saariaho, Violin Concerto Graal théâtre
22 March 2018 56:52Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer and Marjolaine Fournier talk about Saariaho’s violin concerto which was featured as part of the 2017 Ideas of North festival produced by the NAC Orchestra. Saariaho is...
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Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade
16 February 2018 51:22This work opens many doors to wonderful and exciting musical study. It is a fine example of Orientalism and our perception of “the other”. Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer and Marjolaine Fournier...
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Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade
16 February 2018 51:22This work opens many doors to wonderful and exciting musical study. It is a fine example of Orientalism and our perception of “the other”. Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer and Marjolaine Fournier...
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Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 77
22 December 2017 1:14:48Your hosts Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer and Marjolaine Fournier talk about Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77, which will be performed by Guy Braunstein with the NAC...
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Sibelius’ Symphonic Poems
27 October 2017 57:52Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer and Marjolaine Fournier present part two of their 2017-2018 podcasts on Sibelius. In this episode, hear them trace the trajectory of Sibelius’ six symphonic poems, all performed...
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Jean Sibelius’ First Symphony
29 September 2017 1:00:26Jean Sibelius , born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius, was a Finnish composer and violinist of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely recognized as his country's greatest composer...
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Harry Somers - Louis Riel
2 June 2017 49:50The story of the polarizing Métis leader and Canada’s westward expansion is told in this landmark work. Composed by Harry Somers for our nation’s centennial in 1967, this uniquely Canadian...
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Sibelius’ Majestic 2nd and 6th Symphonies
15 March 2017 49:43Jean Sibelius, born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius (8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957), was a Finnish composer and violinist of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely...