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The Decade in Classical Music (Soundcheck: Thursday, 17 December 2009)
It was the decade when movie theaters started showing opera, and the LA Philharmonic hired a 28-year-old whose nickname was "The Dude" to run the show. Today, Critics' Week continues with a look at the decade in classical and opera music. Anne Midgette , chief classical music critic of the Washington Post , joins us to share her picks. Anne Midgette's Classical Albums of the Decade: 1. Mariss Jansons, Shostakovich Symphonies 2. Rene Jacobs, Don Giovanni 3. Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Ligeti piano concerto 4. Leon Fleisher, Two Hands 5. Joseph Keilberth, Ring Cycle 6. Bang on a Can, Renegade Heaven
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Classical Music Agenda
Michael Stern, conductor It's a New Year, and your Classical Music Agenda is back from its winter rest, able to ease back into work this week. Michael Stern, a guest conductor this week with the National Symphony Orchestra , leads a program of symphonies by Barber and Sibelius. Stern, music director of the Kansas City Symphony and a widely respected guest conductor around the world, promises to provide exciting leadership. Pianist Emanuel Ax joins to play the second Beethoven concerto (January 14 to 16). The Daedalus Quartet , an exciting young string quartet, plays a recital in the Barns at W
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Galveston Symphony in Concert at The Grand January 31st
The Galveston Symphony Orchestra will be live in concert Sunday, January 31st, 7pm, at the Grand 1894 Opera House, 2020 Postoffice. The performance will feature "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Paul Dukas; "Polovtsian Dances" by Alexander Borodin; and "Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36" by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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Tippett in focus
The neglect of Sir Michael Tippett's four symphonies has been the subject of an interesting discussion on an earlier post . So as today's article is being uploaded immediately after Armistice Day and Tippett was a committed pacifist , I am featuring two LPs of the composer's symphonies as powerful visual reminders of what is missing from the catalogue. Sir Colin Davis' pioneering 1960s Argo recordings of the first three symphonies have never been bettered, and my 1968 LP of the Second Symphony is seen above. We must be grateful for Richard Hickox's complete cycle with the Bournemouth Symphony
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Leonard Slatkin (Soundcheck: Wednesday, 13 January 2010)
As Soundcheck begins broadcasting on WDET in Detroit, we present some of that city's musical leaders. Leonard Slatkin has been a fixture of the American orchestral scene for over three decades, with notable tenures leading the St. Louis and National Symphony Orchestras. In 2007, he became music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and is bringing a fresh approach to that venerable ensemble. Returning to the podium this month after a heart attack sidelined him in November, he joins us to talk about his comeback and about classical music in Detroit.
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		Christopher O'Riley: Reliving A Love For Ravel
		Christopher O'Riley: Reliving A Love For Ravel : NPR . November 6, 2009 - I played Maurice Ravel 's piano suite Le Tombeau de Couperin at my very first conservatory recital. Looking back, I'm hard-pressed to imagine a better training piece, with its inherent challenges of technique, style, color and
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		Jeremy Eichler's top classical albums of 2009
		MOZART PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 23 AND 24; Mitsuko Uchida, piano, with the Cleveland Orchestra (Decca) Mitsuko Uchida's Mozart playing here is stunningly sensitive, crystalline, and true. These two concertos have been over-recorded, but this soloist and this great orchestra prove there is still more to
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