Piano / Sunday Classics on KPFA

04/10/2021

We don’t know who wrote this, but it’s so true!! ❤️

22/08/2021

I am heartbroken that a person with such talent, engagement and love has died at the age of 63. Oakland, California and the country mourn his loss

A skilled and visionary leader, Morgan made the orchestra a model for both musical excellence and civic engagement.

19/08/2021

took my breath away

18 Jahre jung und schon als neuer Stern am Geigenhimmel gehandelt: Die Spanierin María Dueñas gibt mit Max Bruchs berühmten Violinkonzert ihr Debüt beim NDR ...

29/06/2021

Ciaccona from Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) | transcription for two violins and cello by Jeanne LamonPerformers:Jea...

29/06/2021

A violinist, she directed Tafelmusik for 33 years, striving not only to present centuries-old music as it was originally heard but also to reach modern audiences.

29/04/2021

Here's the music that the cows and people loved.

29/04/2021

Although it remains unclear whether their new listening habits have affected the quality of the cows’ meat, the farmer noted that the animals come running whenever the musicians show up, and get as close as possible while they play.

“Classical music is very good for humans,” Haugaard said. “It helps us relax, and cows can tell whether we’re relaxed or not. It makes sense that it would make them feel good too.”

A collaboration between a cattle farmer and a Danish music training program brings regular recitals to pampered livestock.

24/04/2021

Why Don't You Do Right by Peggy Lee with the Benny Goodman Orchestra 1942. Benny Goodman Orch Information. http://www.redhotjazz.com/goodman.html /

13/04/2021

Most of us already know has wonderful music is. Here's an article from today's NY Times adding more to that notion.

Music therapy is increasingly used to help patients cope with stress and promote healing.

02/03/2021

Yuval Waldman (violin) and Tomas Visek (piano) play encore: Kreisler's arrangement of Dvorak's Songs My Mother Taught Me at the Embassy Series. The Czech Emb...

02/03/2021

A conductor as well as a skilled soloist, he liked to spotlight music composed in times of oppression, including the Holocaust.

27/02/2021

Mahani Teave, 38 and likely the only professional classical performer from the remote island, has released her first album.

27/02/2021

En Universidad Austral de Chile.Valdivia, Chile.Agosto 2012

27/02/2021

Renée Fleming and her Sound Health Network champion Indre Viskontas’s comprehensive review of music and brain development research.

04/02/2021

Support me on Patreon if you want to help me keep doing this and also get the sheet music!https://www.patreon.com/PianoTranscriptionsOriginal video: https://...

04/02/2021

He was one of Lebanon’s most prolific composers, writing music for divas, TV ads, movies and underground bands. He died of Covid-19.

02/02/2021

Lyric soprano Jeanine de Bique, and an outrageously impressive moment of vocal virtuosity.

24/01/2021

Denyce Graves, mezzo-sopranoLaura Ward, pianoIn performance on September 25, 2016 at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.Filmed and edited by H. Paul ...

22/01/2021

I pretend he's after Steve Miller.

José Cura leads the star cast of Verdi's blazingly passionate opera, in Elijah Moshinsky's new Royal Opera House production co-produced with Teatro Real Madr...

22/01/2021

Mr. Moshinsky, known for mixing traditional staging ideas with modern flourishes, also created productions for the Royal Opera and Opera Australia. He died of Covid-19.

12/01/2021

A light tribute to Claude Bolling by Jean-Michel Bernard piano.31/12/2020.A piece of life.

12/01/2021

“Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano,” his 1975 collaboration with the flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal, spent a decade on the classical album chart.

20/12/2020

In memory of my dear friend and colleague Robin Sutherland (March 5, 1951 -- December 18, 2020)Francis Poulenc, Trio for Oboe, Bassoon & Piano; II. AndanteEu...

16/12/2020

She was a rare female soloist in a male-dominated era, but cut back on performing to raise her children.

16/12/2020

Rest in peace. Thanks for the beauty

10/12/2020

I love this article. I'm not giving up either my CDs or my LPs. I wish I was his neighbor as he leaves his CDs outside his door. Remember that with each refinement and iteration of the platform that transports music, we "lose" a layer of sound. Check out Neil Young's campaign to retain music on LPs and CDs.

Our chief classical music critic writes in praise of going to a shelf, pulling out a recording and sitting down to listen.

27/11/2020

An exploration of Josephine Baker, an avant-garde trumpeter and the composer John Adams are among the highlights.

26/11/2020

Over the past few months, our Know the Score series introduced 20 great composers. But what of the many we couldn’t write about? Martin Kettle suggests some other names whose music is well worth exploring

23/11/2020

A man of, in his words, “various artistic gifts of excess,” he amassed a trove of self-released recordings, books and musical transcriptions.

23/11/2020

SFPerformances.org

19/11/2020

The graceful singer, celebrated in Verdi and Puccini, was only in her mid-30s when she left the stage to tend to her family.

18/11/2020

The 30-minute episodes, filmed in San Francisco, feature local luminaries as guest artists.

07/11/2020

Nannette Streicher has been marginalized by history, but she was one of Europe’s finest keyboard manufacturers.

30/10/2020

Highlights include Philip Glass at the Metropolitan Opera, the Seattle Symphony and the pianist Vicky Chow.

23/10/2020

Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, were the definition of Poetry In Motion. Married October 1947, divorced 1973. These three uploads celebrate their appearanc...

23/10/2020

“She continued dancing as she aged into her 100th year,” he said, adding that she often said “that ‘one should celebrate every decade for what it gives you and not for what it takes away.’”

She was a model for Disney’s animated heroine in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” and she and her husband, Gower, epitomized the clean-cut, all-American dance team of Hollywood musicals.

16/10/2020

Ms. Wall, who started her career at Lyric Opera of Chicago, had a silvery soprano voice that grew more opulent as it evolved.

16/10/2020

Provided to YouTube by NAXOS of America Thaïs, Act III Scene 3: Te souvient-il du lumineux voyage · Erin Wall Massenet: Thaïs ℗ 2020 Chandos Released on: 202...

14/10/2020

Mr. Solomon, who was also a co-founder, along with his brother, Seymour Solomon, of the influential record label Vanguard, was author of musical biographies of Mozart and Beethoven. NY TImes music critic, Donal Henahan, described him as “one of the most persuasive voices on behalf of the perilous intellectual voyage known as psychobiography — or, less kindly, ‘psychobabblography.’”

Mr. Solomon probed the psyches of Mozart and Beethoven in critically acclaimed works; he was also a co-founder of an adventurous Vanguard record label.

12/10/2020

Morq-e sahar (Persian:مرغ سحر) (translated as Dawn Bird) is a famous Iranian Tasnif written by Morteza Neydavoud and Mohammad-Taqi Bahar in early 20th centur...