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Christmas Music: It's A Bout Time

December 16, 2011 • Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon from Deceptive Cadence.

'The Nutcracker' — Pirouettes With Popcorn

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'The Nutcracker' — Pirouettes With Popcorn

December 14, 2011 • Reflections on New York City Ballet's first HD simulcast at movie theaters nationwide.

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Bass Giorgio Tozzi Dies At 88

June 1, 2011 • The American singer enjoyed a career that stretched from the Metropolitan Opera to Broadway to Hollywood.

Tchaikovsky, Meet The Bard: Gustavo Dudamel's New CD

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Tchaikovsky, Meet The Bard: Gustavo Dudamel's New CD

March 23, 2011 • The dynamic conductor makes magic with Tchaikovsky's symphonic version of Shakespeare's enigmatic play The Tempest. Set on a far-off island, the motion of the sea rises and falls within patterns in the strings.

Tchaikovsky, Meet The Bard: Gustavo Dudamel's New CD

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Hilary Hahn And Jennifer Higdon Chat

September 20, 2010 • Composer Jennifer Hidgon won this year's Pulitizer Prize for her Violin Concerto, written for Hilary Hahn. The two musicians come together today for a live web chat at 12 noon, EST.

Hilary Hahn and Jennifer Higdon: Hear the conversation with NPR's Tom Huizenga

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Hilary Hahn And Jennifer Higdon: Live Chat on September 20th At Noon

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Hilary Hahn And Jennifer Higdon: Live Chat on September 20th At Noon

September 16, 2010 • Hilary Hahn and Jennifer Hidgon will come together for a live web chat on September 20th. Listen to Hahn's recording of Higdon's Pulitzer-winning violin concerto.

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First Listen: Hilary Hahn Violin Concertos, Old And New

September 12, 2010 • The young violinist's new record contains an unusual pairing of two concertos -- one warhorse and one freshly minted. They may seem like unlikely bedfellows, but the works have more in common than one might think. Hear the album in its entirety until Sept. 23.

Comic Tchaikovsky: 'The Tsarina's Slippers'

January 1, 2010 • Tchaikovsky is famous for dark, brooding symphonies, and of all his operas, only one is a comedy. Yet his fanciful score The Tsarina's Slippers is surely among the most charming of all Russian comic operas.

An Audio Introduction to the Opera

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Classical 2009: Next Generation And Beyond

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The Best Music Of 2009

Classical 2009: Next Generation And Beyond

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December 4, 2009 • With these 2009 releases, you'll find a few fresh faces: musicians hovering around age 30, including the young Jonathan Biss and the sublime Dutch fiddler Janine Jansen. Plus, this year proved exceptionally strong for music by and from Russians. Enjoy a sampling of both classic and less-familiar fare.

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Janine Jansen's Supercharged Tchaikovsky

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September 8, 2009 • The young Dutch violinist was once known as much for her good looks as for her good playing. Today, she turns heads with a fearless approach to music and excellent technique. Hear Jansen play Tchaikovsky's classic Violin Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto

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Mravinsky's Supercharged Tchaikovsky

August 25, 2009 • No one possessed the nerve, or ability, to perform Tchaikovsky's final symphonies with as much dark and passionate intensity as the Russian conductor Evgeny Mravinsky.

Ted Libbey And Fred Child Recommend Symphonies 4-6 by Tchaikovsky

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Van Cliburn's Classic Tchaikovsky

June 2, 2009 • Hear the lanky Texan's iconic 1958 recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, made on the heels of his historic victory at the very first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Ted Libbey Recommends Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1

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Perilous Passion: Tchaikovsky's 'Mazeppa'

May 8, 2009 • Historic upheavals, a perilous romance, a father's death and a daughter's madness are all wrapped up in one of Tchaikovsky's most intimate, and passionate operas.

Tchaikovsky's 'Mazeppa'

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Insults And Praise On The Classical Campaign

October 23, 2008 • Commentator Miles Hoffman offers a classical variation on a political theme: insults and endorsements among the great composers. Invectives hurled at their colleagues and competitors were effective means of shaping public opinion. Whether positive, negative or the all-too-common flip-flop, classical-music criticism, just like political commentary, is little more than biased opinion in time.

Insults And Praise On The Classical Campaign

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Rejection Revisited: 'Eugene Onegin'

September 12, 2008 • Tchaikovsky combined a personal, romantic entanglement with a passionate story by Pushkin to create Eugene Onegin, a fiery drama that soon became the composer's most popular opera.

Teatro Carlo Felice on World of Opera -- 'Eugene Onegin'

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