Dvorak Piano Quintet, Op. 81
In 1872, at the age of 31, Dvořák wrote a Piano Quintet designated as Opus 5. Dvořák was not a prodigy like some other famous composers; ins...
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Mozart String Quartet, K. 465, "Dissonance"
You might be wondering: why on earth would I choose a piece that is literally called "Dissonance" when I was looking for something a bit sim...
Bonus Episode: Beethoven 5 en français!
Bienvenue dans cette édition spéciale du podcast Sticky Notes en français ! Aujourd'hui, nous parlons de la symphonie la plus célèbre du mon...
Liszt Faust Symphony
Thank you to Jerry for sponsoring today's episode on Patreon! Goethe's Faust is considered to be the greatest work of German literature. Thi...
Schubert: Die Schöne Mullerin Mini-Episode No. 1 (Free Preview)
This is a free preview of my new series of mini-episodes over on Patreon all about Schubert's Die Schöne Mullerin, one of the great masterpi...
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde w/Case Scaglione
This is a continuation of my new series where I learn about a new piece from a great friend/musician. This week I'm thrilled to welcome Case...
Lili Boulanger: Psalm 130
The story of Lili Boulanger's life is one of the most fascinating and tragic in all of musical history. A remarkably precocious talent, Boul...
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (Part 2)
In a letter to Tchaikovsky's nephew Vladimir Davydov, Tchaikovsky wrote: "I'm very pleased with its content, but dissatisfied, or rather not...
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (Part 1)
The great and somewhat controversial conductor Leopold Stokowski said this about Tchaikovsky: "His musical utterance comes directly from the...
Beethoven String Quartet, Op. 59, No.2
I'm always tickled by composer trivia questions, like which standard canon works begin in a major key and end in a minor key? I'll give you...
Brahms Symphony No. 2 LIVE w/ The Aalborg Symphony
Brahms spent much of his adult life battling with his ambition to write the next great symphony and his terror at the shadow of Beethoven st...
Zemlinsky: The Mermaid
The story of Alexander von Zemlinsky's The Mermaid begins with a passionate love affair and ends in heartbreak of the most unabashedly big-R...
Pergolesi Stabat Mater
Many aspects of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's life seem relatively normal when it comes to composers of the Baroque era. He was prolific, di...
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
We humans seem to love comeback stories, and there is no comeback quite as compelling in the classical music world as Rachmaninoff's Second...
Handel Messiah w/ Aram Demirjian
A piece that I have been asked to cover probably a dozen times is Handel's Messiah. It's a piece I love, but a piece that I've never conduct...
Gustav Holst: The Planets
Mr. Holst, wherever you are, I apologize in advance for what I'm about to say. From my research, I know you resented this fact, but unfortun...
Franck Symphony in D Minor
In the 1960s, Leonard Bernstein famously helped to popularize the music of a then relatively obscure composer, Gustav Mahler. His work, as w...
Ravel and Falla: Echoes of Spain
Nowadays it's hard to imagine Maurice Ravel as a "bad-boy" revolutionary, a member of a group whose name can be loosely translated as The Ho...
Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 LIVE w/ The Aalborg Symphony
Longtime listeners of Sticky Notes know that Shostakovich's 10 symphony was the inaugural piece covered on the show. It's been 8 years(!) si...
Barber Violin Concerto
There are so many great apocryphal stories in the long history of classical music, from the reason Tchaikovsky wrote his Sixth Symphony to w...