Sinopsis
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Episodios
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Beethoven: Rage Over A Lost Penny
13/12/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Goodness! Calm yourself down!!
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Richard Strauss: Don Juan, Excerpts
12/12/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Don't fall for this guy's seductive ways
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Janacek: Prelude, From The House Of The Dead
09/12/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Out of a grave situation
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Dufay: Nuper Rosarum Flores
08/12/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: An over-arching structure
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Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzona No. 14
07/12/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Sacred surround sound
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Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition: Great Gate Of Kiev
06/12/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: It looked good on paper!
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Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue
05/12/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: An ode to modern America
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Adams: El Niño, "Woe unto them that call evil good"
02/12/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: This is not the semi-regular weather pattern of the Pacific Ocean
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Rubinstein: The Demon, Caucasian Dance
01/12/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: A pianist conjures up diabolical themes
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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Witches' Sabbath
30/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Double, double, toil and trouble!
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The Great, White North
30/11/2011This composer was also one of the most noted violin virtuosi of his time. One witness claimed that his cadenzas “really terrified me because such [cadenzas] have not been nor can ever be played.” This virtuosity translated into his compositions as well, as is evidenced in this piece.
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Haydn: Symphony No. 96, Fourth Movement
29/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: It's simply inexplicable!
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Paganini: Violin Concerto No.2, "La Campanella"
28/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: Deal or no deal, this guy can play!
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Rodgers and Hart: Boys From Syracuse: “Oh, Diogenes”
25/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: an Elizabethan gets a jazzy Greek makeover…
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Leonard Bernstein: Candide, Overture
23/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a very “green” philosophy…
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All You Can Eat!
23/11/2011This composer loved food as much, or maybe even more, than he loved music. In one letter, he raced through a description of the opening of a new opera, so that he could write about a new salad recipe. His favorite dishes were turkey stuffed with truffles and most anything with foie gras. He even had many different dishes named after him!
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Richard Strauss: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
22/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: some very ancient wisdom given a modern twist…
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Bastian and Bastienne, Overture
21/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a “social contract” is okay, but opera singers prefer the real thing…
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Porter: I’ve Got You Under My Skin
18/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: there ain’t no cure for it…
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Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Mvt. 3
17/11/2011Can you guess this piece? Here’s a hint: a troubled genius…