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Robert and Clara: The whirlwind love affair of Robert Alexander Schumann and Clara Josephine Wieck
1 March 2017 46:34Robert Schumann[1] (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic...
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Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra
24 January 2017 1:08:07Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which...
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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky: Pulcinella
29 November 2016 1:00:12Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Pulcinella is a ballet by...
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphonies no. 5 & 6
18 November 2016 47:50Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the late-Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular music in the classical repertoire. He was the first Russian...
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Wilhelm Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
6 June 2016 1:02:49Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the...
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Man Who Changed Movie Scores Forever
22 April 2016 48:33"Treating each film as an 'opera without singing' (each character has his or her own leitmotif) Korngold created intensely romantic, richly melodic and contrapuntally intricate scores, the best of which...
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The Music of George Gershwin
20 November 2015 53:40By far the bulk of Gershwin’s output is devoted to songs – more than five hundred of them, most of which come from his more than four dozen works for...
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Episode 43: Mahler Symphony No. 4
29 September 2015 59:22In the first of the 2015-16 season's "Explore the Symphony" podcasts, the NAC Orchestra's assistant principal double bass Marjolaine Fournier and one of Canada's foremost music journalists Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer...
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Episode 42: Anton Bruckner and his Ninth Symphony
15 June 2015 47:04Words like “epic” and “timeless” are regularly applied to Bruckner symphonies. They have a pace of their own. But let yourself get in synch with their pulse, and you’ll be...
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Episode 41: Maurice Ravel and his two Piano Concertos
23 March 2015 41:30Join Marjolaine Fournier and Jean-Jacques Van Vlasselaer for an intriguing look into Maurice Ravel's life and his two piano concertos.