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I’m glad this Podcast is back for another great season.

I saw a book on String Quartets and started reading it. Very dense and hard to read. I was always, “who is that composer,” or “what instrument is that?” Not baroque but still baroque-ish. Music to play at home, amateur and/or professional. Fun to play or listen to OR quite professional.

Love from Georgia (country). Hope you"ll never stop making podcasts ❤❤

This version of Florence Price Symphony 1 is my favorite so far. At least my most played. Well besides the Chinekei Orchestra.

Thank you for this!

The love theme is my Favortie part of the overture.

It may be that the most frequent performances of her music now are those written in conjunction with Desire Dondeyne for wind band (Marche, Suite/Divertimento) as well as a number of excellent transcriptions of her works for band. She is known to have remarked, "If I had known of this ensemble earlier I would have written for nothing else!"

Fabulous, as always, and thank you for mentioning Rachmaninoff, because the first 6 notes of the second theme of the finale (the "big tune" as it were) are almost identical to the first 6 notes of the second theme of the finale (the "Full Moon and Empty Arms" melody) of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto!

I am looking forward at what you have planed for Season Six.

Extremely interesting!

This is great - thank you. 🏆

My Favorite, thanks for explaining....the powerful up-swelling part sounds Russian to my untrained ear's.

Boulanger (analyzing an orchestral score): This is very good, but... where is Piazzola? Piazzola plays a tango. Boulanger: There is Piazzola! czcams.com/video/noLazDrdxj0/video.htmlsi=RPUWsZwdkaYJTIGA

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thank you for this very interesting podcast!

Love this episode

I loved listening to this. I love Mahler to pieces. Am preparing to perform this, and am diving as deep as I can to understand the music. I loved hearing your perspectives on this. Mahler truly is magnificent.

Bach’s Second wife played The Clavichord.

Great episode. Ive always loved Schumanns approach to symphony orchestration.

Great Subject to Talk About on Classical Breakdown. Absolutely love the History of The Piano

I never heard of this composer before.

My man Bobby Schumann, love it! Thanks for creating this 🎼🌹

I've enjoyed all the episodes of Classical Breakdown since I discovered the podcast in the past couple of years. I especially appreciated this episode. During the podcast, Mr. Lawson talked about his experience recording Bruckner's 6th Symphony, but did not mention where where anyone could listen to it. Where is the NSO releasing all the concerts Mr. Lawson records? Is the NSO part of Idagio or other classical streaming services? I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of the NSO's Beethoven cycle and hope the NSO releases more recordings.

Thanks for this

We know exactly when and why the Berceuse for piano was written. The Choral for trumpet and piano was part of her opera "La Petite Sirène" and was transcribed for Maurice André. The Solfedge lessons were written for her granddaughter, who was a music teacher in French public schools. Cntact me if you want any more information.

Favorite composer of all time

Love Amy Beach! Just bought a biography about her. So glad that I found this podcast. Fabulous stuff, keep doing what you're doing!

This is a cool concept. Thanks for making this. Going to be checking all of these composers out. Keep up the good work!

Thank you so much for an amazing program! I was of course scouting the internet as you did for Germaine and found you! New subscriber, keep up the fantastic work!

Ausgezeichnet!

I wanted to learn about the clarinet reed. But this is CZcams. No video?

Speaking of Jean Sibelius, there’s a favorite Sibelius piece inspired by The Strauss Family called Valse Chevalereques, can you do a Podcast on that please.

This is a composer I never heard of, my goal for the future is to learned about new composers

Leonard Bernstein Died the same year I was born.

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I love Leonard Bernstein, one of my Absolute favorite American Composer.

The 5 Beethoven late quartets - the Eb, Am, F, C#m, Bb - are arguably the high point of written music. I’ve been listening to these for years, and have never gotten to the bottom of them. I think it was his deafness: he was connected directly to the Source.

This is so interesting! Thanks for sharing! I started listening to the Met live radio broadcasts in my early teens and fell in love! Also, I can't find recordings of some of the earlier ones on streaming platforms, anyone know where they are hiding, or do I have to buy the cd? 😊

Nessun Dorma is my favorite opera aria. It is an Aria Originally written for a man, however I have a Favorite Soprano from The UK who sings this really beautifully.

I love the Groovy Time Machine Music, when are you going premiere my Request on The Sinfonia Concertate on Classical Breakdown.

Excited to be singing this piece this season; thank you for the breakdown -- you've got a new subscriber in this didn't-actually-become-a-music-theorist-after-school ❤

Finale has 17 statements of ground bass, then two measure preparation for return of theme, which uses 1st half of Part 1 and last 11 measures of Part 2. Then the short coda.

This is my favorite piece of Tchaikovsky.

A fascinating composer. I wish there had been a woman commentator on this podcast …

BEETHOVEN IS GOD 👊🏾✨⭐️

saxophone when played "well" sounds too unremarkable in some giant orchestras or bands. those environments are too scared of spicy saxophone sounds.

I have heard of this musical form before, specking of nocturne I don’t know if you are not Familiar with New Age music, but The New Age Duo Secret Garden wrote a song Called Nocturne.

David Hunter's sensational 'doscovery' has more to do with the promotion of David Hunter than with information about Handel. Handel did not invest in the slave trade, he was given shares as part of his payment as director of the Royal Academy, at a time when Royal Africam Company had suspended involvement in the trade. He held these shares for around a month in all. Hunter is a habitually sloppy and irresponsible researcher with a keen eye for headline grabbing.

This episode was my introduction to your content. I can't wait to discover more. Thanks!!!

Chevalier was a distinct title given to him and its a no brainer to refer to him as just that . The man was beyond t the epitome of men of that age and today. Too many achievements by him for this podcast