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Fireworks From Cuba, And Schubert That Grooves: New Classical Albums

Although it always seems fashionable to forecast the downfall of classical music, enterprising musicians both young and not so young continue to make deeply satisfying recordings. For this visit to...

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A Know-It-All's Guide To Olympic Music

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Headbanging Bruckner And Debussy In Black And White: New Classical Albums

Some people are intimidated by the vastness of classical music. And while the prospect of more than 1,000 years of hits to consider may be daunting, just think instead of how many musical journeys of...

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Cecilia Bartoli's Latest 'Mission' Rediscovers Agostino Steffani

Cecilia Bartoli has a passion for musical archaeology: "I am the Indiana Jones of classical," she says jokingly to All Things Considered host Robert Siegel.Bartoli rummages through music history to...

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Elliott Carter, Giant Of American Music, Dies At 103

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A Bald Mezzo And Three Shades Of Violin: Classical Favorites From 2012

From mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli's ambitious revival of the early Baroque composer Agostino Stefani (and yes, she's got another outrageous album cover) to three very different roles for the violin,...

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What Ever Happened To The Classical Christmas Album?

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Measures Of Affection: Five Musical Love Letters

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Vespers, Habaneras And Early Morning Walks: New Classical Albums

Robert Frost's famous poem "The Road Not Taken" begins with the line: "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood." Frost's traveler must choose between them. But slide that metaphor over to the world of...

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Revved-up Vivaldi, Persian Bamboo And Soaring Spirituals: New Classical Albums

It's a brave new musical world. Between downloads, iPods, music sharing websites and the good old CD, we have more easy access to the songs and symphonies we love than ever before. In this visit to All...

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Banjos, Bartók And La Belle Époque: New Classical Albums

People ask why I thrive on classical music, and I tell them it's all about discovery. The possibilities for finding incredible music, both old and new, are endless as the oceans.

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I Hear Bells: The NPR Music Wedding Puzzler

Can you hear the wedding bells? June has arrived. Theories vary on why this is the month for marriage. Old traditions like the timing of the harvest season (and pregnancies) might have had something to...

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Best Songs Of The Year (So Far) Puzzler

The year is half over and that means NPR Music and our public radio partners have been obsessing over our favorite songs of the year so far.

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'La Marseillaise' Unmasked: A Bastille Day Puzzler

"The Star Spangled Banner" turns 200 this year, and the attention it's been getting is again a reminder of how difficult it is for many Americans to sing our national anthem.Not so for the French, who...

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Meet The Cast Of The Met Opera's Labor Drama

Think opera plots are tough to follow? Try wading through the complicated drama playing out offstage at the Metropolitan Opera. At its most basic, it's the story of management and labor unions fighting...

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Ask Us Anything About Beethoven

What do you know about Beethoven? He wrote the Fifth Symphony (da da da dummmm ...) and he became deaf.There's obviously a lot more to the man and his music, and one person who surely knows is composer...

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Drum Fill Friday: Classical Headbanging Edition

Sooner or later it had to happen — an all-classical Drum Fill Friday. This week's puzzler proves that the world of Beethoven, Stravinsky and Bartók can serve up beats as thunderous as any double...

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Soul-Searching Music From A Serene Desert Monastery

Inspiration can come from unlikely places. For composer Robert Kyr, the silence of a desert monastery is key to the radiant music on his new disc of recent choral works performed by the vocal ensemble...

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First Listen: Cameron Carpenter, 'If You Could Read My Mind'

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Pacifica Quartet: Tiny Desk Concert

With this Tiny Desk Concert by the Grammy-winning Pacifica Quartet, we have the opportunity to explore the world of a single composer.

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