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Welcome to Journey Through Classical Piano, the podcast dedicated to helping people of all musical tastes and backgrounds discover the beauty of classical music. This bi-weekly podcast features concert-like musical experiences and in-depth exploration of classical compositions. Your host, classical pianist Jeeyoon Kim, brings the splendor of the classical music experience right to your living room or on the go in 15-minute segments. Let’s embark in the journey together!
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The Piano Ninja Tricks Podcast is the best place to learn piano tricks to make your Bach, Beethoven and Chopin easier for you. Meet your host, Juilliard alum and Piano Ninja, Lisa Spector. She's sharing her treasured tricks honed through years of study with legendary mentors Earl Wild, Leon Fleisher, John Perry and Lillian Kallir. But here's the remarkable part: Lisa's journey to piano mastery was interrupted after an unexpected fall led to seven complicated right-hand fractures, resulting i ...
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Podcasty muzykatradycyjna.pl opowiadają dźwiękiem o muzyce wiejskiej w różnych regionach Polski. Prezentujemy nagrania wykonawców kontynuujących lokalne i rodzinne zwyczaje muzyczne. Rozmawiamy o historii muzyki tradycyjnej, jej współczesnych odsłonach i przyszłości. Chcemy stworzyć przestrzeń do dyskusji o aktualnych kontekstach tradycji muzycznych i stawiania pytań – dlaczego, po co i jak? Gośćmi podcastów są mistrzowie śpiewu i gry na instrumentach oraz ich uczniowie. Dzielą się swoją muz ...
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A weekly one-hour conversation with guest experts and callers about travel, cultures, people, and the things we find around the world that give life its extra sparkle. Rick Steves is America's leading authority on travel to Europe and beyond. Host and writer of over a hundred public television travel shows and author of 30 best-selling guidebooks, Rick now brings his passion for exploring and understanding our world to public radio. Related travel information and message boards on www.rickst ...
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the tonic
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the tonic

Lowry Yankwich

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tonebase presents the tonic: a podcast about music and the people who make it, delving into the hidden meanings behind great works of the past with legendary pianists of the present. Visit tonebase to learn more: https://tb.media/thetonic.
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Sticky Notes is a classical music podcast for everyone, whether you are just getting interested in classical music for the first time, or if you've been listening to it and loving it all your life. Interviews with great artists, in depth looks at pieces in the repertoire, and both basic and deep dives into every era of music. Classical music is absolutely for everyone, so let's start listening! Note - Seasons 1-5 will be returning over the next year. They have been taken down in order to be ...
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The most popular classical music broadcast in the world is proudly Sponsored by Apple Classical and Uber. Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Mercury, Alto, and countless independent labels use our show to promote new artists and new album releases. Debuting your album on our podcast guarantees your music will be heard on: Podomatic, Vurbl, Amazon Music, Audible, Apple Podcasts, Player FM, PodBean, iHeartRadio, Audacy, Google Podcasts, Gaana, Boomplay, and Deezer, among many others. We actively supp ...
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Composers Datebook™ is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage, and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present, with appropriate and accessible music related to each.
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Coolclassic is a podcast about classical music that aims to bring music lovers most especially classical music enthusiastic who find joy in listening to beautiful rhythm and sound that keeps the soul at peace. Coolclassic will bring to you classical pieces from Baroque Period to the Romantic periods from composers like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Hadyn, George Frideric Handel, Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonio Vivaldi, Frederic Chopin, Andrea Bochelli and many more other great legends of cla ...
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Pianist Henrik Kilhamn takes you on a journey through the great piano repertoire. By showing and commenting on what's really going on in the music, this podcast helps unlock the world of classical music for every listener and music lover.
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Marjan’s Musical Soirées
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Marjan’s Musical Soirées

Marjan Kiepura, pianist and Jane Knox, host and narrator

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Marjan's Musical Soirées is a new podcast series where Marjan Kiepura invites you to share in his artistic and musical heritage. Since the launch of his successful Chopin CD entitled, Images of a Homeland, pianist Marjan Kiepura now has a significant YouTube following. Marjan comes from a distinguished musical family. His parents were the opera singers and movie stars Marta Eggerth and Jan Kiepura. The host and narrator, Jane Knox, is fluent in three languages and writes original material fo ...
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Ever wonder who were the Florentine Camerata? Where did the conductor’s baton come from? Or the difference between Opera Buffa and Opera Seria? These little nuggets of classical music trivia are what this podcast is all about. Come hop around music history with me, Steven Hobé, as we take a minute to get the scoop!
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Our goal is to help community bankers succeed and thrive. We have a passion for community banks and believe they are the backbone of main street America. The BankerCast presents the case for community banking best practices and the relationship between a strong community banking system and the community it serves standard of living.This a banker’s must listen to guide to success.
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Great American Novel
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Great American Novel

Scott Yarbrough and Kirk Curnutt

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Few literary terms are more hotly debated, discounted, or derided than the "Great American Novel." But while critics routinely dismiss the phrase as at best hype and as at worst exclusionary, the belief that a national literature commensurate with both the scope and the contradictions of being American persists. In this podcast Scott Yarbrough and Kirk Curnutt examine totemic works such as Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and Toni Morrison's Beloved that have been labeled GANs, exploring their th ...
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Step by step educational piano lessons with PianoSecrets. We will explain and analyze in detail rhythm, melody and harmony providing you with a wealth of musical knowledge, giving you the tools to discover what playing the piano is all about.
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The Short Mystery Story Collection by Various is a real treat for intrigue enthusiasts! This volume features such greats as Ambrose Bierce, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Anton Chekov. Some unexpected names like P G Wodehouse and Kate Chopin also crop up, bending their prodigious talents to the genre. The ten stories contained in this volume range from events as diverse as the mysterious death of a sea-captain in a seedy boarding house, a group of women who deal with a crime committed by a frien ...
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A bi-weekly podcast to enrich your reading life that feels more like a book club! We’re your hosts, Mike and Jess Ptomey, and the only thing we like better than reading is talking about what we are reading with friends. In 2020 we’ll be reading short stories: two stories by a different author each month. So listen in and read along! Be sure to share your comments for each story on social media with the hashtag #thecatholicreadingchallenge.
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I wanted to be a hundred things in life --cricketer, politician, navy commander, doctor, engineer, and lawyer -- you name it, and it would catch my fancy. I became an Electrical Engineer, but it was hardly an end of the dreamer in me. I moved on to writing, started a blog, and published short stories. However, last night it dawned upon me that I talk so little. And so little in English. Now I am taking the next leap in my life, starting a Podcast. I will recite stories, poems, sometimes I wi ...
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1843, a composer dubbed “The Chopin of America” was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His name was Manuel Gregorio Tavárez, born to a French father and Puerto Rican mother. He began his musical studies in San Juan but at 15 moved to France to study at the Paris Conservatory with two leading French composers of the day, Dan…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # The Awakening Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Kate Chopin, The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a novel set in New Orleans and the Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century. The story centers around Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing soc…
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SOMM RECORDINGS is delighted to announce the return of pianist Peter Donohoe to the label following his acclaimed complete survey of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas with a dazzling new recital coupling Rachmaninoff – on the 150th anniversary of his birth in 1873 – and Chopin. “Rachmaninoff is unimaginable without Chopin,” asserts Russian music expert Marina…
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Chopin's collection of Mazurkas is an important manifestation of his Polish identity, comprising a range of musical elements from the traditional folk dance. In this video we'll look closer at the somewhat peculiar and haunting Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17 no. 4. With pianist Henrik Kilhamn. Video: https://youtu.be/znXaTwHMvj4…
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Description Did you know that Chopin also had a talented older sister who not only composed, but was a professional writer, too? Take a minute to get the scoop! Fun Fact Frédéric’s health had never been good, and it deteriorated especially markedly in the late 1840s. For two months, she nursed her beloved brother in his final illness, a task that m…
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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS5BhDH1u9g?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&w=900&h=507] Paul goes Behind the Curtain with the star and director of “American Psycho The Musical,” which has been exciting audiences at the Chopin Studio Theatre and plays until November 26th. …
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A former US ambassador to Switzerland shares her insights into what makes the Swiss tick — and what their society gets right. Then an astronomer helps us imagine what sort of views we'd enjoy if we could travel to planets in our solar system. And a guidebook author from Anchorage tells us why south-central Alaska can be a fun place for a winter vis…
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Michael A. Muller’s meditative debut album Lower River explores the place where space, time, and self are occluded; a study in hearing versus listening and engaging with sounds that challenge what music ought to be. On 22 September 2023, the Balmorhea co-founder’s full-length solo album—originally released in 2019—will be reissued digitally by Deut…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 2006, the Minnesota Orchestra did something quite unusual: it gave a public concert consisting of nine works that had never been performed by a major orchestra, all written by young composers at the start of their careers. The new pieces had been workshopped and rehearsed the previous week as part of the Orchestra’s annu…
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In the latest episode of the Piano Ninja Tricks podcast, your host, Lisa Spector, reveals a game-changing technique to make your piano playing easier and more efficient. This episode, part of the Technique Thursday series, dives into the art of minimizing movement by strategic thumb placement on the keys. Lisa demonstrates how this simple adjustmen…
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Symphony No. 2 in B Major, Op. 14 "To October" 1. Largo 2. Chorus "My schli, my prossili raboty i chleba" Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 20 "1st of May" 3. Allegretto - Allegro 4. Andante 5. Allegro - Largo 6. Moderato "The First of May" Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112 "The Year 1917" 7. Revolutionary Petrograd 8. Razliv 9. Aurora 10. The …
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Synopsis On today’s date in 2000, the Boston Symphony gave the premiere performance of the Second Symphony of American composer John Corigliano. For strings alone, the symphony was a reworking of a string quartet that Corigliano had composed for the farewell tour of the Cleveland Quartet in 1996. The symphony was well received, and the following ye…
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“My ultimate recommendation [for Górecki’s Symphony No. 3] goes not to Nonesuch’s success, but to the moving recording on Koch Schwann [reissued here on Alto] – this is heartfelt music-making, pure and simple, that succeeds admirably in conveying the sorrow of these aptly named songs. Koch also provides better value for money with their inclusion o…
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O odkrywaniu Ameryki, czyli jak łatwo nie zauważyć czegoś, co mamy na wyciągnięcie ręki.Pocztówkę dźwiękową przesłał Mateusz Kowalski, skrzypek, multiinstrumentalista, śpiewak☛Przypisy:– Kapela Józefa Kędzierskiego ze Rdzuchowa, Radomskie 1986, nagr. Muzyka Odnalezionahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcH0h0F1la0– Józef Piecyk i Jan Kietli w Kolonii …
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Synopsis Utah came to the stage of Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, musically speaking, on this date in 1989, when the Orchestra of St. Luke’s premiered Utah Symphony, by American composer John Duffy. His Symphony No. 1 was commissioned by Gibbs Smith, the president of the Utah chapter of the Sierra Club to draw attention to the endangered and p…
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In this episode of Bankercast, join us as we address recruiting with a special guest, Kayla Stoulig, the HR Manager at Gulf Coast Bank. Together, we explore the qualities that make a candidate stand out, from strong work ethic to a sense of responsibility. Tune in for valuable insights on finding the right talent to build a thriving and dynamic tea…
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James Sedares and the Phoenix Symphony make a strong argument that Copland’s film music and opera suites are every bit as masterful as his most famous works. These works are coupled with Eduard Brunner’s atmospheric performance of Copland’s Clarinet Concerto. “Copland [in ‘The Red Pony’ is] displaying his simple gifts for the ready folk-tune and he…
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Description The musicians of the Titanic all died when the ship sank in 1912. They played music, intending to calm the passengers, for as long as they possibly could. Take a minute to get the scoop! Fun Fact There are no indications that the Titanic’s band members ever attempted to save themselves, and all of them died in the sinking. Most people r…
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Podkast przybliża sylwetkę muzykanta Orkiestry Dętej ze Starej Wsi (obecnie Zakrzew), jednego z najlepszych w swoim fachu tubistów na Roztoczu. Orkiestrant opowiada jak (ekspresowo) zaczęła się jego kariera, z czym wiązało się granie w dętej kapeli i o roli basisty. W rozmowie pojawiają się również śpiewane melodie i liczne anegdoty, a towarzyszą i…
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Alto Records returns to international availability critically lauded recordings of three major works for violin and orchestra by late romantic composer Ottorino Respighi, a master of merging memorable melodies with lush, inventive scoring. Tracks Concerto gregoriano, P 135 I. Andante tranquillo (9:16) II. Andante espessivo e sostenuto (10:33) III. …
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Synopsis At 2 p.m. on today’s date in 1855, the first in a series of afternoon chamber music concerts was given at Dodworth’s Hall in New York City. As a contemporary newspaper put it, “In consequence of the numerous evening engagements of the city, and to enable ladies to be present without escort, it is proposed to give matinees in preference to …
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # Robinson Kruse Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, på svenska ofta kallad Robinson Kruse, är en roman från 1719 av Daniel Defoe om en man som överlever ett skeppsbrott och vistas på en nästintill öde ö i 28 år. En av Crusoes följeslagare på ön är infödingen Fredag, så kallad på grund av att Cruso…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # Of Mice and Men Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - John Steinbeck, Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # Moby Dick Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Herman Melville, Moby Dick is an American classic written by Herman Melville and published in 1851. On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horre…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # Remember Me? Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Sophie Kinsella, The hilarious romantic comedy from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Sophie Kinsella Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking she's twenty-five with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. But, to her disbelief, she learns it's actually three…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # The Count of Monte Cristo Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is a novel that follows the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantes, a dashing young sailor falsely imprisoned for treason. The fascinating story details his imprisonment, escape, and carefully executed…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # Fahrenheit 451 Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a …
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # Atlas Shrugged Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Ayn Rand, Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil,  Atlas Shrugged  is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—n ominated as one of America’s best-loved novels…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # Mere Christianity Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis's forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books - The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality - Mere Christiani…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # På spaning efter den tid som flytt. D 1, Swanns värld Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Marcel Proust, Romansviten ''På spaning efter den tid som flytt'' är den franske författaren Marcel Prousts (1871-1922) centrala verk och en av de allra viktigaste litterära skapelserna i den franska 1900-talslitteraturen. De nära 4000 si…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # Down London Road Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Samantha Young, The unmissable, sensual sequel to On Dublin Street . Perfect for fans of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. 'Scotland's answer to E. L. James' Sunday Post Johanna Walker knows what she wants. And that's a strong, steady, financially secure man who will treat h…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # En förlorad värld Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Evelyn Waugh, Jag kände Sebastian till utseendet långt innan jag träffade honom. Det var oundvikligt, för redan från den första veckan var han den mest ryktbare studenten i sin årskull på grund av sin skönhet, som var anslående, och på grund av sina excentriska infall, för …
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # Old Man and the Sea Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Ernest Hemingway, The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant ma…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # Förvandlingen Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Franz Kafka, Franz Kafkas berättelse Förvandlingen har kallats världslitteraturens bästa novell. Utförligt efterord. Hans Blomqvist och Erik Ågren har belönats med Stiftelsen Natur och Kulturs översättarpris och Samfundet De Nios översättarpris för sitt arbete med Kaf…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # The Master and Margarita Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Mikhail Bulgakov, UPD: Added missing chapter! Bulgakov's major talent is in his capability to transform his impressions and deceptions into satire. He works secretly on The Master and Margarita during the ongoing repression in the Soviet Union in the thirties. It tur…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # Brave New World Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Aldous Huxley, Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to br…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # Metamorphosis Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of short fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. The story b…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # The Prince Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Niccolò Machiavelli, Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor, The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince . . . a king . . . a president. When, in 1512, Machi…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # Bröderna Karamazov 1 Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Fjodor Dostojevskij, »Den mest magnifika roman som någonsin skrivits.« | Sigmund Freud Fjodor Karamazov är mördad. Godsägaren och fadern till tre – eller egentligen fyra – söner, var en hänsynslös patriark och saknade inte fiender. En av sönerna misstänks för mordet. Men…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # A Christmas Carol Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Charles Dickens, This Top Five Classics edition of Dickens’s immortal classic, A Christmas Carol , includes the original color illustrations by John Leech, as well as another 20 woodcut engravings by Sol Eytinge Jr. from the 1869 American edition by Ticknor & Fields. Be…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # The Complete Works of Charles Dickens (with commentary, plot summaries, and biography on Dickens) Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Charles Dickens, The Complete works of Charles Dickens in one giant collection with plot summaries, chapter analysis, character profiles, and a biography on the life and times of Charles Dickens…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # Mrs. Dalloway Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway is one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" …
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # One Hundred Years of Solitude Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Gabriel García Márquez & Gregory Rabassa, ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BOOKS AND WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE _______________________________ 'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant af…
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Ladda Ner och Läs På Nätet # Lolita Gratis Bok (PDF ePub Mobi) - Vladimir Nabokov, Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers grea…
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