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On The Bach Hour, Ton Koopman leads Amsterdam Baroque in music that reflects the complexity of belief through one of the composer's most brilliant works, written for Easter.
Jiyang Chen: Mälkki; Marco Borggreve: Nelsons; Marvin Joseph: Fleming, Courtesy of the artist: Simon; Nigel Parry: Midori; Paul Glickman: Hadelich
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An off-kilter Frankenstein, symphonic bluegrass, and a GRAMMY nominee help kick off the year in this month's Instant Replay. -
The things around us have “color,” and music has “sound,” but through the magic of composing, music has color, too. -
Tyler Alderson sits down with pianist Marc-André Hamelin to discuss his recent album of piano works by Gabriel Fauré. -
Family traditions, new classics, and a bit of '70s funk, all wrapped up in this month's Instant Replay.
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On The Bach Hour, one of the composer's frothier musical creations tells the story of a father, his daughter, and a hot caffeinated beverage that causes a minor rift in family relations. -
On The Bach Hour, the Finnish conductor leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Arnold Schoenberg's lush orchestration of the "St. Anne" Prelude and Fugue, and Masaaki Suzuki conducts the Cantata 73. -
The Miami-based orchestra celebrates the artistic explosion emanating from 1920s New York, with music and poetry inspired by the Harlem Renaissance, on demand.
From NPR Music
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The late American composer John Cage left it up to the performer to decide how long his work, Organ2/ASLSP, should take. A group in Germany is testing the limits. -
The pioneering Japanese-American conductor who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra for nearly decades died Tuesday.
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On The Bach Hour, Ton Koopman leads Amsterdam Baroque in music that reflects the complexity of belief through one of the composer's most brilliant works, written for Easter.
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