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Sticky Notes is a classical music podcast for everyone, whether you are just getting interested in classical music for the first time, or if you've been listening to it and loving it all your life. Interviews with great artists, in depth looks at pieces in the repertoire, and both basic and deep dives into every era of music. Classical music is absolutely for everyone, so let's start listening! Note - Seasons 1-5 will be returning over the next year. They have been taken down in order to be ...
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Guiding flutists holistically to discover their unique voice on and off the stage!
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Hello! This is the podcast empowering the new generation of classical musicians to take risks and live a meaningful life.
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Incredible conversations with classical musicians about feelings (YES!), finding their value and career transitions. Meet professional classical musicians now thriving as entrepreneurs, master craftsmen, counsellors, personal trainers, software developers, lawyers and more. We need to NORMALISE the reality of underemployment, unemployment, career pivots and exits for classical musicians. Are you with me? Think classical musicians only make music? Think again. #changeyourtune
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Professor Carol mixes humor with history to bring you this entertaining series about music, the arts, and Classical Education. Professor Carol explains why our Western Cultural Heritage is not an elective. It's a treasure!
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A nosy trombonist (Melissa Brown) chats to other brass professionals about their careers, how they got there and what music they would happily put in the bin and never play again.
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Maestro’s On Air is a discussion of culture, news events and life on the Space Coast, and highlights the music, concerts, and personalities of the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra (SCSO). The podcast is produced by and hosted on www.PiqueVelocity.com.
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Begin your classical adventure! In 10 minutes or less, you'll discover new (or new to you) classical music with lots of trivia along the way. Join us online at www.salon97.org!
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tonebase presents the tonic: a podcast about music and the people who make it, delving into the hidden meanings behind great works of the past with legendary pianists of the present. Visit tonebase to learn more: https://tb.media/thetonic.
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There is a rumor going around that classical music is hoity toity. At Classical Classroom, we beg to differ. Come learn with classical music newbie Dacia Clay and the music experts she invites into the Classical Classroom.
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Here at Glissando we believe that classical music is for everyone. We share the compelling new releases and hidden gems we encounter, and we tell the stories that bring these works and composers to life. If you're new to classical music, we'll help you begin exploring. If you're already familiar with classical music, we'll keep you on your toes. Questions? Observations? Contact us at [email protected].
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Professor Carol mixes humor with history to bring you this entertaining series about music. From concerts, opera, and composers, to folk song collectors and singing parrots, Professor Carol tells it all – the whys, the whats, and the so whats. Get previews of the Cliburn Concerts, the Dallas Wind Symphony, and more.
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Mahler Foundation is the center for education and promotion of the music of Gustav Mahler to everyone around the world.
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How can present and future leaders in the opera industry strengthen their understanding of voice, story and community? What does it take to build a rewarding and sustainable career in the arts? Anna Garcia and Olga Perez Flora offer a rare look into the challenges and opportunities for artists in opera. A must-listen for young artists, families, music educators, teaching artists, and opera fans and supporters! www.santafeopera.org/keychange
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Pianist Hugh Sung shares stories, songs, and interviews with musicians from a wide variety of genres, including Classical, Folk, Rock, Jazz, and beyond. Visit http://amusicallife.com for all episodes and show notes. New episodes coming every Monday.
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John Eliot Gardiner, Founder and Artistic Director of the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras, presents eight podcasts that explore Monteverdi’s role at the centre of seismic shifts and tumultuous advances in all the arts and sciences during the early 1600s, spearheaded by his contemporaries - Galileo, Kepler, Bacon, Shakespeare, Caravaggio and Rubens. With the help of specially recorded musical illustrations and a handpicked team of experts, Gardiner guides listeners through an in-depth investiga ...
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Let's Talk Off The Podium podcast features renowned and aspiring artists. The long list of guests include winners of Grammy Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Fellow, Rome Prize, ASCAP Awards, WOMEX Awards, & the Polar Music Prize. The mission of this podcast is to create discussion on a variety of topics in music, culture, and arts.
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Join your hosts Robert Estrin and Mike Wood as they discuss everything and anything piano. This podcast covers a wide range of topics from piano lessons and techniques, general music questions, music theory, and insights into the piano industry featuring interviews with musicians as well as luminaries in the piano world. Robert is a concert pianist and Mike is his producer. Together they created the company Living Pianos which sells restored pianos all over the world. They have produced hund ...
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This classical music podcast explores the history and lives of some of western classical music's most famous composers and musicians. Classical music is filled with very colorful personalities and riddled with drama of all kinds, from political intrigue to failed romances and everything in between. Through the course of the show, we will discuss composers and musicians from the distant past all the way to the present, beginning with the greatest, JS Bach. -Please rate, review, and subscribe ...
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Rowan Pierce on recording Bach, Handel and Vivaldi | Gramophone Podcast
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28:44Soprano Rowan Pierce joins Jonathan Whiting to reflect on the intimacy of making chamber-scale Baroque music without a conductor, the challenges of Bach’s expansive recitatives, and the almost operatic drama of Handel’s 'Tra le fiamme'. She also speaks about her long collaboration with Ashley Solomon, the ensemble’s director, and about finding new …
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Episode 337: The Back-to-School Crash Is Real—Here’s How to Bounce Back
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22:53Flute 360 | Episode 337: “The Back-to-School Crash Is Real—Here’s How to Bounce Back” Have you felt that crash lately—the jolt of going from summer freedom to early rehearsals, packed teaching schedules, and late-night studying? You’re not alone. The back-to-school crash is real, and in today’s episode I’ll share practical ways to bounce back with …
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Composer Jake Heggie on 25 years of writing operas
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31:49Composer jake Heggie joins Hattie Butterworth to speak about the recording release of ‘Intelligence’, an opera premiered at Houston Grand Opera in 2023 and out now on the LSO Live label. They also look back on 25 years since Heggie’s first opera ‘Dead Man Walking’ was premiered and ahead to a new production of the work at English National Opera in …
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Cellist Alisa Weilerstein on recording new concertos by Gabriela Ortiz and Richard Blackford
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23:58During the 2024-25 season, Alisa Weilerstein premiered three new cello concertos – Richard Blackford’s The Recovery of Paradise (which she has recorded for Pentatone with the Czech Philharmonic conducted by Tomáš Netopil), Gabriela Ortiz’s Dzonot (recorded for Platoon with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel) and Thomas Larcher’s Retur…
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I had such a wonderful time joining the jazz podcast You'll Hear It! We talked about the meeting of jazz and classical music, a topic I've explored before, but never in this much depth and never with so much input from jazz musicians and experts like Peter Martin and Adam Maness. We talk about great jazz and classical composers, but we also talk ab…
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The Dover Quartet on recording Woodland Songs | Gramophone Podcast
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36:06Joel and Camden from the Dover Quartet meet Hattie Butterworth in Philadelphia to discuss their latest album, Woodland Songs, which places the music of Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate and Pura Fé alongside the Dvorak 'American' String Quartet in F Major. Though vastly different works in style, expression, and historical context, they share the common …
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Episode 336: For the Flutist Who Feels Broken, Defeated, and Done
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13:19Flute 360 | Episode 336: “For the Flutist Who Feels Broken, Defeated, and Done” Are you in a season that feels heavy—emotionally, physically, or spiritually? This heartfelt solo episode is for the flutist who’s been pushing through pain, burnout, or discouragement…and is wondering if it’s time to walk away. In today’s coaching message, Heidi offers…
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Mandolinist Avi Avital on his new album 'Song of the Birds' | Gramophone Classical Music Podcast
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31:03The mandolin player Avi Avital, with his ensemble Between Worlds, has just released a new DG album ‘Song of the Birds’ which crosses boundaries to explore the musics of three geographical regions – Iberia, southern Italy (Puglia) and the Black Sea – with vivid results. For this week’s Gramophone Podcast, James Jolly caught up Avi Avital while he wa…
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In the mid-1920s, Maurice Ravel wrote a letter to the legendary composition teacher Nadia Boulanger. Boulanger’s class was a mecca for composers, both young and old, and musicians from all over the world vied to study with her. But Ravel’s letter wasn’t on his own behalf. Instead, he urged Boulanger to take on a young student whom Ravel himself had…
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Episode 335: Creative Frameworks & God-Given Callings—A Conversation with Dr. José Valentino Ruiz
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1:12:30Flute 360 | Episode 335: Creative Frameworks & God-Given Callings—A Conversation with Dr. José Valentino Ruiz What if you’re not scattered—you’re just overwhelmed by options? And what if God is inviting you to simplify, focus, and flow? In this vulnerable and high-impact conversation, Dr. José Valentino Ruiz (multi-Grammy-winning flutist, entrepren…
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Join Hattie at the 2025 Three Choirs Festival in Hereford as she speaks to performers, composers, clergy and audience members to discover what makes the festival such a place of pilgrimage 300 years since its foundation
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Episode 334: The Missing Piece in Your Practice Routine—Your Voice
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10:23Flute 360 | Episode 334: The Missing Piece in Your Practice Routine–Your Voice What if the breakthrough you’ve been waiting for doesn’t come from more scales or longer practice sessions—but from tuning into your own voice? In this powerful solo episode, Heidi unpacks a storytelling method that’s been quietly transforming the Flute 360 community. In…
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Cellist Guy Johnston on the Bliss Cello Concerto | Gramophone Classical Music Podcast
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29:26Guy Johnston joins Hattie Butterworth to discuss his latest recording of the Arthur Bliss Cello Concerto with Andrew Manze and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. A technical mine field, the concerto was written for the great cellist Rostropovich and premiered with Benjamin Britten conducting at the 1970 Aldeburgh Festival. Guy also speaks …
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Beethoven Piano Sonata in B Flat Major, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier" - Part 2
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53:10There is a special category when it comes to Beethoven; a catalogue that doesn’t include complete symphonies, sonatas, concerti, string quartets, etc., but just single movements. This is the catalogue of great Beethoven slow movements. Beethoven’s slow movements are like a great Tolstoy novel. They span the gamut of human experience and also reach …
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Episode 333: Silence, Resistance, and Showing Up Anyway
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14:00Flute 360 | Episode 333: “Silence, Resistance & Showing Up Anyway” In this solo episode of the Flute 360 podcast, Dr. Heidi Kay Begay opens up about a quiet but powerful force many musicians face: resistance. Whether you're a flutist, music educator, or multi-passionate creative, this conversation invites you to slow down, listen deeply, and name w…
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2025 BBC Proms: Our Top Picks | Gramophone Classical Music Podcast
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27:35As the 2025 BBC Proms season gets underway, Martin Cullingford is joined by Tim Parry and Hattie Butterworth select their top picks. From Rachmaninov with Yunchan Lim and the UK premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Cello Concerto to a late-night tribute to Arvo Pärt and a rare performance of Delius’s A Mass of Life, the team reflects on the Proms’s c…
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Julian Bream: an archive interview from 2013 with the great guitarist
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19:23We're today continuing the theme set by last week's edition, in which we marked the 500th episode of the Gramophone Classical Music podcast by looking back over some of our most memorable interviews and episodes. The interview Editor Martin Cullingford chose to reflect on was a conversation he had with the guitarist Julian Bream all the way back in…
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Beethoven Piano Sonata in B♭ major, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier" - Part 1
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44:10Beethoven once wrote to his publisher: “What is difficult, is also beautiful, good, great, and so forth. Hence everyone will realize that this is the most lavish praise that can be bestowed, since what is difficult makes one sweat.” If this credo manifests itself most powerfully in any one of Beethoven’s works, it might be the piece we’ll talk abou…
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Music and conversation: 500 episodes of the Gramophone Podcast
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38:20Earlier this year the Gramophone Podcast passed 1 million downloads. Now we’ve reached another milestone: our 500th episode. Launched before podcasting’s current popularity, the series steadily built a following, which grew substantially once we adopted a weekly schedule and set formats. Those formats include: interviews with major artists on new a…
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Orchestra of the Year 2025: exploring this year's nominees
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33:19Gramophone's Editor Martin Cullingford speaks to James Jolly about the 2025 Orchestra of the Year nominated orchestras, discussing the impact each of them has made to recordings and the wider musical landscape To vote for Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year 2025, head to gramophone.co.uk/vote25
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Episode 332: Is It the Universe…or God? Rethinking the Creative Process as a Flutist
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15:51Flute 360 | Episode 332: "Is It the Universe…or God? Rethinking the Creative Process as a Flutist" In this solo episode, Dr. Heidi Kay Begay invites you into a vulnerable, soulful conversation about creativity, faith, and what it truly means to be a modern-day artist. Inspired by the Flute 360 Accelerator’s June book club selection, The Creative Ac…
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The collaboration between Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht is rightly legendary. The two men could not have been more different from each other, and like the Brahms/Joachim relationship I mentioned in my recent show about the Brahms Double concerto, the friendship between Weill and Brecht was stormy to say the least. The two collaborated on some of th…
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Episode 331: Create More, People-Please Less with Melvine Naliaka
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51:50Flute 360 | Episode 331: "Create More, People-Please Less with Melvine Naliaka" Have you ever felt like you're saying “yes” to everyone else but “no” to yourself? Maybe you’ve tried juggling too many roles—educator, performer, entrepreneur—and are left feeling stretched thin and stuck in burnout. Or maybe you’re craving permission to finally choose…
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Conductor John Andrews on recording The Seal Woman
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42:10Conductor John Andrews joins Hattie Butterworth to speak about the debut recording of Sir Granville Bantock and Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s folk opera, The Seal Woman. They explore the folk song collecting of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, as well as Andrews’s commitment to uncovering lesser-known repertoire
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Episode 330: This Is Real Life – Two Flutists, One Faith, and a Journey Through It All with Dr. Kristin Caliendo
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2:33:24Flute 360 | Episode 330: "This Is Real Life – Two Flutists, One Faith, and a Journey Through It All with Dr. Kristin Caliendo" This episode isn’t just a conversation—it’s a moment of truth, healing, and deep connection. Dr. Heidi Kay Begay and Dr. Kristin Caliendo come together for a raw and heartfelt discussion on what it means to live a fully int…
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Mezzo Kitty Whately on unknown French song
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28:52Kitty Whately joins Hattie Butterworth to discuss her new album on Chandos with pianist Edwige Herchenroder titled Horizons: French Melodies. They also explore the historic erasure of women composers, as well as Kitty's ongoing advocacy and research
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The Ravel Sound with Norbert Müllemann and Stefan Knüpfer
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45:32I so enjoyed making this latest episode in my collaboration with G Henle Publishers. I talked with two absolute experts in their fields, Norbert Mülleman and Stefan Knüpfer, all about how to edit Ravel's music, and how to create the Ravel sound on the piano. This episode definitely veers into some very nerdy territory, but Norbert and Stefan are bo…
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