New York Philharmonic Podcast
Summary: Experience the music and meet artists from Philharmonic concerts. The hosts are Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and New York's 96.3 FM WQXR host Elliott Forrest and radio producer, Mark Travis. Enhance your concert experience through these previews that include musical selections and interviews with musicians and music experts.
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Podcasts:
Composer Steven Stucky discusses how the limitations put on commissions can spur creativity. This video reveals the story behind his Rhapsodies for Orchestra, receiving its U.S. premiere in Philharmonic concerts on September 18-20 and 23, 2008.
Composer Bernard Rands discusses his new work, a Philharmonic Commission titled CHAINS LIKE THE SEA, inspired by the Dylan Thomas poem "Fern Hill"; Philharmonic Program Annotator and Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence James M. Keller explores how Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 is the starting point of the great piano concerto tradition; and Music Director Lorin Maazel reflects on the brilliant orchestration of Tchaikovsky's popular Suite No. 3.
Lorin Maazel and others discuss the program of works by past Philharmonic Music Directors — Gustav Mahler’s Adagio from Symphony No. 10, Pierre Boulez’s Pli selon Pli: Improvisation II sur Mallarmé, and Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety — as well as Mr. Maazel’s own Music for Flute and Orchestra, with Tenor Tuba Obbligato.
Mark Travis explores Rachmaninoff's passionate and jaw-dropping Piano Concerto No. 3, featuring Yefim Bronfman; Ravel's endearing Mother Goose Suite; and Bartók's lurid Miraculous Mandarin Suite, while Lorin Maazel – as he enters his valedictory season as Music Director – reflects on his fondness for the Philharmonic and discusses the music of Steven Stucky, whose Rhapsodies for Orchestra will receive its U.S. premiere in these performances.
Sir James Galway talks about Ibert's challenging Flute Concerto – with its gorgeous, requiem-like second movement – while Elliott Forrest discusses Berlioz's festive Roman Carnival Overture and music commentator Charles Zachary Bornstein provides a detailed look at Tchaikovsky's stormy Symphony No. 4.
