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The Chameleon Clarinet
The clarinet is a bit of a chameleon. Equally at home as a woodwind section member in Mozart’s classical symphonies or playing solo in Gershwin’s famous glissando at the start of “Rhapsody in Blue,” the clarinet can switch settings with ease. Even within a single piece, the differences in timbre—dusky at the bottom and piercingly bright at the top—can make a single clarinet seem like several different instruments. This week we’ll listen to a couple of different pieces that feature the clarinet, and all its many colors. Recorded live in the Tapestry Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum , Boston. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is pleased to share this concert under a Creative Commons Music Sharing License. For details see www.gardnermuseum.org.
Audio|Sun, 15 Jun 2008|More from The Concert
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Celebrations
Music is often written in celebration-of an emotion, an event, a rite of passage-and today we'll listen to pieces written to celebrate these occasions. When you talk about Italian vocal music, you are almost always dealing with love. The first song in the set, "Me voglio fa' 'na casa" by Donizetti, captures the free spirit of a sailor's love. The poetry, written in the Neopolitan dialect, adds a folk sensibility to this as well as the next song, "A' Vucchella" by Tosti. In the last song in the set, "Musica Proibita" by Stanislao Gastaldon, we get perhaps the lustiest declarations, in words so provocative that a mother forbids her young daughter to sing them! After that, a celebration of a very different sort. Mozart wrote this Divertimento in D Major for horns and strings, in part, to mark the graduation of his friend Sigmund Robinig from law school, according to the All Music Guide. The work's substantial instrumentation-with bass in addition to cello-and its larger-than-average proportions for a divertimento make it a particularly satisfying sample of Mozart's work in this genre. Recorded live in the Tapestry Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum , Boston. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is pleased to share this concert under a Creative Commons Music Sharing License. For details see www.gardnermuseum.org.
Audio|Wed, 30 Apr 2008|More from The Concert
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The Unknowns
Classical music definitely has its stars, and Beethoven is arguably the biggest. But classical music has its lesser-knowns, too. In this program we'll listen to two composers who may not have achieved Beethoven's fame, but who have nonetheless earned a lasting place in the chamber music repertory. Sometimes writing for an instrument that doesn't have a big repertoire can earn a non-celebrity composer a permanent place on the recital stage. Such is the case with Tournier's Sonatine. A harpist married to another harpist, Tourier knew the instrument well and had a major hand in developing new techniques and expanding its repertoire. The Arensky Trio is one of this little-known Russian composer's most-performed works. The New Grove dictionary calls it one of his best, too, and notes the influence of Mendelssohn's own piano trio, as well as the work's elegiac third movement, written in homage to the cellist Davidov. Recorded live in the Tapestry Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum , Boston. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is pleased to share this concert under a Creative Commons Music Sharing License. For details see www.gardnermuseum.org.
Audio|Tue, 15 Apr 2008|More from The Concert
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Gardner Art Museum 4-9-08
Do you know who stole the paintings?
Audio|Thu, 10 Apr 2008|More from WRKO - Howie Carr
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Audio|Thu, 10 Apr 2008|More from 105.7 WROR
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Hanging nasturtiums mean springtime in Boston
These 20-foot long vines with orange flowers are a harbinger of spring at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum . Video by David L. Ryan and produced by Chona Camomot, Globe Staff
Video|Wed, 2 Apr 2008|More from Boston.com
Hanging nasturtiums mean springtime in Boston
These 20-foot long vines with orange flowers are a harbinger of spring at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum . Video by David L. Ryan and produced by Chona Camomot, Globe Staff
Video|Wed, 2 Apr 2008|More from Boston.com
Artist Diploma Edition
Boston , where the Gardner Museum is located, is a big college town. And so every April, we tip our hats to Boston's student population with a series of concerts by some of the top young musicians enrolled in New England Conservatory's Artist Diploma program, one of the most prestigious music training programs in the country. This week on the podcast we will listen to two Artist Diploma violinists who have performed here in recent years. First, we'll hear Bach's third partita for solo violin. Though neither as virtuosic nor as familiar as the second partita, the third has all the sprightly energy of a dance, with its menuets, gigues and bourées. Next is Schumann's Violin Sonata No. 1. The sonata was written relatively late in Schumann's compositional career, after the bulk of his chamber music works, and it is evident upon listening that, though it is his first work for this particular instrumentation, the music is written by a more experienced hand. Recorded live in the Tapestry Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum , Boston. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is pleased to share this concert under a Creative Commons Music Sharing License. For details see www.gardnermuseum.org.
Audio|Mon, 31 Mar 2008|More from The Concert
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Security Director discusses 18 year old art heist
Anthony Amore, Director of Security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum urges anyone with information to come forward. He spoke with WBZ's Rod Fritz.
Audio|Sat, 22 Mar 2008|More from WBZ's More on This
Practice Makes Perfect
For most contemporary composers, writing a dozen string quartets would be a fairly large feat. Since about Beethoven's time, and since composers have been writing more for themselves than for a patron or church, the sheer volume of individual compositional output has, for the most part, shrunk. Today, we take a listen to a few pieces from before that time: Mozart's 23rd violin sonata and Haydn's 59th string quartet. Haydn wrote 68 numbered string quartets. As a court-employed musician, he composed new pieces for every house concert, soiree and dance party the count cared to throw. Before the Haydn, we'll hear Mozart's 23rd violin sonata. In this later sonata, Mozart began to branch out a bit, abandoning the short, two-movement form in use in earlier classical music, and instead writing a more expansive, three-movement piece. Recorded live in the Tapestry Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum , Boston. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is pleased to share this concert under a Creative Commons Music Sharing License. For details see www.gardnermuseum.org.
Audio|Fri, 14 Mar 2008|More from The Concert
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