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A podcast with chats about classical music featuring interviews with guest musicians about music they love. Come hang out with Emma and Chloe, creators of MusicBox, while they explore a new piece each episode.

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Happy 1 year Outside the MusicBox anniversary! Here is an update about what’s next for this podcast. 

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Keyboardist Kristian Bezuidenhout talks about Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, obsessing over recordings as a teenager, and the dichotomy of Bach as both a total genius and also just a working guy.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for Kristian’s pieces

Spotify playlist for main pieces

Spotify playlist for final question pieces

Other useful links:

Johann Sebastian Bach

St. Matthew Passion background information

English translation of St. Matthew Passion text

Thomaskirche (St. Thomas Church) in Leipzig, Germany, where St. Matthew Passion was premiered

History of St. Matthew Passion being performed in the Netherlands

John Eliot Gardiner

John Eliot Gardiner’s 1989 recording of St. Matthew Passion

Recitative

Aria

Arioso

Chorale

Viola da Gamba, or Viol/Gamba for short

Basso Continuo, or Continuo for short

A discussion on some problematic aspects of the Bach Passions

Support Kristian:

Kris Bezuidenhout’s website, where you can purchase CDs: http://kristianbezuidenhout.com/

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English violist Annette Isserlis talks about 17th-century music by Orlando Gibbons and Henry Purcell, starting out as a ballet dancer, and being swept up in the experience of collective music making.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for Annette’s pieces

Spotify playlist for main pieces

Spotify playlist for final question pieces

Other useful links:

The Viol

Orlando Gibbons

Plainchant

The “In Nomine” plainchant, which was used as the basis of pieces by many composers throughout history

Henry Purcell

False relations (blue notes)

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Rameau’s Les Boreades

Support Annette:

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s video platform, OAE Player

Annette’s podcast, Tea With Netty

English Baroque Soloists

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French soprano, Julie Roset, talks about Sigismondo d’India’s Infelice Didone and Jules Massenet’s Ah! Douce enfant, how singers’ voices change as they age, and what it’s like pretending to be a fairy.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for Julie’s pieces

Spotify playlist for main pieces

Spotify playlist for final question pieces

Other useful links:

Sigismondo d’India

Claudio Monteverdi

The story of Dido and Aeneas

Francesco Turrisi’s episode, where we talk about Dido’s Lament, by Henry Purcell

Recitativo vs aria

17th-century Spice Trade Routes with map showing the trading route via Sicily

Jules Massenet

Massenet’s opera, Cendrillon (Cinderella)

MET Opera, New York City

Support Julie:

Julie’s Facebook: @JulieRosetSoprano

Julie’s Instagram: @juthyana

Watch the livestream of Julie’s debut at the Opéra-Comique, Paris

Holland Baroque’s latest CD, Brabant 1653, in which Julie is featured

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Violinist Shaun Lee-Chen talks about Chausson’s Poeme, the original cycling hipsters, and old recordings.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for Shaun’s pieces

Spotify playlist for main pieces

Spotify playlist for final question pieces

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Ernest Chausson’s Poeme

Violinist, Eugene Ysaye

Maurice Ravel’s Tzigane

Violinist, Jascha Heifetz

For a deep dive nerd out on 19th-century ways of performing, you can check out Emma’s Masters thesis here: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/561381/563632

Support Shaun:

Shaun playing viola in a duet with Christian Li playing violin

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

Shaun’s position as lecturer at the University of Western Australia

Shaun playing on the UWA Conservatorium of Music Youtube channel

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Bonus Christmas Special! Emma and Chloe answer more listener questions and wrap up 2020. Stay tuned for more fun times in 2021 Outside the MusicBox!

Rachael Beesley’s work on Flow http://www.rachaelbeesley.com/flow.html

Wonderbound contemporary dance company in Denver, Colorado https://www.wonderbound.com

How scales and keys work in music https://learningmusic.ableton.com/notes-and-scales/keys-and-scales.html

Key Characteristics table https://4c07335b-13d6-47c3-8533-90b0d4feca97.filesusr.com/ugd/bbfdbb_ec35d032a55b44e299fb83b49b349944.pdf

Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/en/the-halls#laeiszhalle

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Composer and cellist Cris Derksen talks about Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, braiding her Cree and Mennonite ancestry, and how her dog might be a witch.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for Cris’s pieces

Spotify playlist for main pieces

Spotify playlist for final question pieces

Other useful links:

Modest Mussorgsky

Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain

Youtube video of the Night on Bald Mountain bit in the Disney Fantasia movie from 1940

Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition

What is a Powwow

Eybler String Quartet

Support Cris:

Cris’s website: https://www.crisderksen.com/

Facebook: @cris.derksen

Instagram: @cris_derksen

Cris Derksen on Spotify

Cris Derksen on Youtube

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Double bassist Rob Nairn talks about arias by Robert Schumann and Agostino Steffani, his love of opera, and secret bass bonding activities.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for Rob’s pieces

Spotify playlist for main pieces

Spotify playlist for final question pieces

Other useful links:

Robert Schumann

Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust

Violone

Richard Wagner

Bayreuth Wagner Festival

Agostino Steffani

The story of Niobe in Greek Mythology

Agostino Steffani’s opera Niobe, regina di Tebe

Philippe Jarrousky

Boston Early Music Festival

Opera singer, Maria Callas

Jazz bass clarinetist and saxophonist, Eric Dolphy

Support Rob:

Email: rnairn03@gmail.com

Ironwood’s latest CD: Romantic Dreams: Quintets for Piano and Strings

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Brandenburg One

Adelaide Baroque

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Violist Max Mandel talks about Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, making music with friends, and some viola jokes for good measure.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for Max’s pieces

Spotify playlist for main pieces

Spotify playlist for final question pieces

Other useful links:

Violin vs viola

String Quartet description

Symphony description

Concerto description

Cadenza description

Guy Fishman’s episode (where we talk about cadenzas)

Info on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Background on Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra

The Mannheim Rocket

Julia Wedman’s episode (where we talk about scordatura tuning)

Haydn’s “Joke” string quartet

Viola jokes

Support Max:

OAE Players digital concert platform

Flux Quartet

Spunicunifait

Max’s Twitter: @MaxTMandel

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Percussionist Marianna Soroka talks about four different pieces that helped shape her life, sharing the stage with live horses in a 90’s Polish opera house, and the history of the frame drum.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for Marianna’s pieces

Spotify playlist for main pieces

Spotify playlist for final question pieces

Other useful links:

Modest Mussorgsky

Boris Godunov full opera on Youtube: Acts I and II , Acts III and IV

Early Russian Orthodox choral singing

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Bogoroditse Devo (the choir piece Emma sang in youth choir where everyone took sneaky breaths to keep the phrase going forever)

Buddy Rich

Live video of Buddy Rich playing (so you can see his “driving” way of playing the drums)

Leszek Możdżer

Frame drums

Percussionist Zohar Fresco playing frame drums in their traditional Arabic setting

Portuguese square frame drum

Bodhran (Irish frame drum)

Steve Reich

Short documentary on Steve Reich talking about his music

Reich’s Clapping Music

Support Marianna:

Website: mariannasoroka.com

Instagram: marianna_soroka

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Violinist Katarina Aleksić talks about Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklaerte Nacht (Transfigured Night), growing up in former Yugoslavia, and the magic of communicating with people on an unspoken level.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for Katarina’s pieces

Spotify playlist for main pieces

Spotify playlist for final question pieces

Other useful links:

Traditional Serbian song Katarina was taught as a child

Arnold Schoenberg

Schoenberg’s Verklaerte Nacht (Transfigured Night) background and poem translation

Twelve-Tone Technique

Explanation of chromatic scales (by a man who reminds us of that guy in the Princess Bride)

Support Katarina:

RTS Symphony Orchestra, Serbia

Holland Baroque

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Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi talks about ostinato basslines, the similarities between language and musical improvisation, and how the basslines used in Radiohead and My Funny Valentine are a lot older than we think.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for Francesco’s pieces

Spotify playlist for main pieces

Spotify playlist for final question pieces

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Ostinato bassline

Improvisation in music

Bebop jazz

*Correction (23:37): Charlie Parker saxophone solo

The Early Music Movement in Classical music

The harpsichord

The organ

Henry Purcell’s opera, Dido and Aeneas

The Villancico

Video featuring Rhiannon Giddens talking about the history of the minstrel banjo

Support Francesco:

Website: https://www.francescoturrisi.com/

Patreon for Francesco and his partner, Rhiannon Giddens: https://www.patreon.com/rhiannongiddens

Bandcamp: https://francescoturrisi.bandcamp.com/

Buy Francesco’s album based on 17th-century music: https://diatriberecords.bandcamp.com/album/si-dolce-il-tormento

Buy Francesco’s solo piano album: https://francescoturrisi.bandcamp.com/album/northern-migrations

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Bonus episode! Join us this episode as we answer some great questions from our listeners and announce our NEW PayPal link where you can donate. It’s really easy to donate to keep this podcast going! Just head to PayPal.me/MusicBoxConcerts and choose the currency and amount you want to donate.

Useful links:

Opening music that we recorded with Holland Baroque. Highly recommend checking out the whole album!

Mozart’s music in films and TV shows

Mozart’s Requiem

Schubert’s Rosamunde string quartet

Biber’s Mystery Sonatas (with organ accompaniment)

Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 1in G minor

Power posing TED Talk by Dr Amy Cuddy

We are jealous of:

Any music for viola da gamba

Bassoon parts in early French operas such as this one

Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2

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Conductor Joshua Weilerstein chats about Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, nerdy piano improvisation duels, and how cultural identity shapes our way of listening to music.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for Joshua’s pieces

Spotify playlist for main pieces

Spotify playlist for final question pieces

Other useful links:

Ludwig van Beethoven

Lausanne Chamber Orchestra performs all of Beethoven’s symphonies

Article explaining Beethoven’s challenging of Steibelt to a piano improvisation duel

Reenactment of a piano improvisation duel of Beethoven vs Steibelt in Vienna at the turn of the 19th century

Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony

NPR article about the Eroica Symphony

The riot in the audience at the premier of Igor Stravinksy’s Rite of Spring

Mahler’s Symphony No. 6

Jan Swafford’s book on Beethoven

Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 conducted by Leonard Bernstein

Support Joshua:

Website: https://joshuaweilerstein.com/

Facebook: @joshuaweilerstein

Instagram: @joshuaweilerstein

Twitter: @joshweilerstein

Sticky Notes podcast hosted by Joshua

Sticky Notes Patreon page

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Cellist Guy Fishman chats about Vivaldi’s Cello Concerto in C minor, his introduction to classical music in Texas, and the joys of exploring sheet music stores.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for Guy’s pieces

Spotify playlist for main pieces

Spotify playlist for final question pieces

Other useful links:

Antonio Vivaldi

Check out our episode with Kati Debretzeni to find out more about Vivaldi!

Broekmans & Van Poppel music store in the Netherlands

Antonín Dvořák

Support Guy:

Handel and Haydn’s “Tuning In” podcast hosted by Guy

The best way to order Guy’s CDs is by emailing him at: gfishman@handelandhaydn.org

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Mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean chats about Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs, Caroline Shaw’s Cant voi l’aube, and how 70s disco shaped her musical taste.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for Lotte’s pieces

Spotify playlist for main pieces

Spotify playlist for final question pieces

Other useful links:

Composer Luciano Berio

Australian National Academy of Music

Ensemble Q

Mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian

Luciano Berio’s Sequenza III for solo female voice, premiered by Berio’s wife, Cathy Berberian

Video of Cathy Berberian performing her Stripsody (showing the score)

Father of the American folk revival, Pete Seeger’s obituary in the NY Times

Composer Caroline Shaw

Mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter

Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices

Netherlands Dance Theatre trailer for the contemporary dance production of Caroline Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices

Norman Connors

Aquarian Dream

Bela Bartok’s Piano Sonata, Sz. 80

Support Lotte:

Lotte performs online concert through the Tait Memorial Trust

Lotte’s website https://www.lottebettsdean.com/

Lotte’s social media: Facebook , Instagram, & Twitter

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Violinist Rachael Beesley talks us through Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, deranged opium nightmares, and whether the violin or the french horn is the most difficult instrument.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for Rachael’s pieces

Spotify playlist for main pieces

Spotify playlist for final question pieces

Aurora Orchestra performing a staged version of Symphonie Fantastique from memory (watch from 23:00 for the symphony)

Original Symphonie Fantastique score with Berlioz’s descriptions for each movement

Berlioz’s text translated to English

PBS article with background information on the piece

Guardian article on Symphonie Fantastique with lots of interesting quotes from Berlioz’s letters

Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts: Berlioz Takes a Trip

Serpent instrument

Ophicleide instrument

More information on Flow

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra

Rachael’s website

Ironwood’s latest album of Louise Farrenc & Camille Saint-Saëns

Badass 19th- and 20th-century female violinists and composers to check out: Maud Powell, Louise Farrenc, Ginette Neveu, Marie Soldat-Roeger, Renée Chemet

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Canadian violinist Julia Wedman chats about Biber’s Mystery Sonatas, scordatura, and adventures in Salzburg with the help of a janitor named Ziggy.

Useful links:

Julia’s Spotify playlist

Spotify playlist for main pieces from all episodes

Spotify playlist for final question pieces from all episodes

More useful links:

Heinrich Iganz Franz von Biber

Scordatura

Photo of the crossed middle strings from the Resurrection sonata

Pavlo Beznosiuk’s recording, who also has readings of the psalters

Julia Wedman

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Keyboardist Tineke Steenbrink talks us through Corelli’s Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 11 in B-flat Major, acoustic pots hidden in medieval churches, and her realisation that Harry Potter’s library doesn’t actually exist.

Useful links:

Tineke’s Spotify playlist

Spotify playlist for main pieces from all episodes

Spotify playlist for final question pieces from all episodes

More useful links:

Information on how pipe organs work

King Louis XIV (The Sun King)

Arcangelo Corelli

Bach’s Art of Fugue (sometimes uses Corelli’s bassline)

Schnitger organ catalogue

Sound pots in churches that enhance acoustics

The book about Utrecht that features in Harry Potter movies

George Frideric Handel and his link to Corelli

Schubert’s Trout Quintet

Haydn’s “Fifths” String Quartet

If you want to watch Tineke play harpsichord

Support Tineke:

Holland Baroque

Support our musicians during the COVID crisis

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Violinist Kati Debretzeni chats about Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, the different stages of drunkenness, and collaborating with dancers and actors.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for Kati’s pieces: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0DcKrpZrmvPaIgHfKb7jAE?si=16FPqHdDSFCSdta2rGjftw

Spotify playlist for main pieces: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3BRom90ebzqKrDudeVZtYo

Spotify playlist for final question pieces: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2rzB0a4C4nNjO0MR8VLQdQ

Other useful links:

Chef’s Table (Vivaldi intro in opening credits): https://www.netflix.com/title/80007945

Max Richter’s arrangement of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (used in Chef’s Table opening): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oYWfJuMGMA

Nordic video of 4 seasons from Barokkanerne orchestra: https://vimeo.com/277962133 (Password: 2018)

Excerpt of the Four Seasons with dancers from Henri Oguike Dance Company, Queen Elisabeth Hall in London: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bViZG58urQc

Al Sharpton’s sermon for George Floyd’s funeral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQw7cMF3Ggs

Kati takes us through an in-depth look at Vivaldi’s Four Seasons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t_M-fVRnz8&feature=emb_rel_pause

Translation of Vivaldi’s sonnets for each season: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_Sonnets

Enrico Onofri plays Vivaldi’s fiendishly difficult Violin Concerto nicknamed “Il Grosso Mogul”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDdHsK5y_Fo

Support Kati:

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: https://oae.co.uk/

English Baroque Soloists: https://monteverdi.co.uk/about-us/english-baroque-soloists

To purchase Kati’s recording of the Four Seasons: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8039280--vivaldi-the-four-seasons

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Bassist Margaret Urquhart chats about Bach’s B minor mass, different types of Violones, and touring in the 80's through the East and West of Europe.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for main pieces: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3BRom90ebzqKrDudeVZtYo

Spotify playlist for final question pieces: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2rzB0a4C4nNjO0MR8VLQdQ

Spotify playlist for this episode:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1HWU1GQHw1vQFi4AxlZxJo?si=Znen4KHjSEW0fbqIIBGbEQ

Double bass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bass

Violone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violone

Bach’s B minor mass structure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_B_minor_structure

Frans Brüggen: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/aug/17/frans-bruggen

Laurence Dreyfus’s book, Bach’s Continuo Line: https://online.ucpress.edu/jams/article/41/2/349/50013/Review-Bach-s-Continuo-Group-Players-and-Practices

Philippe Herreweghe B minor mass recording: https://open.spotify.com/album/0uNITDxpMzzTfJGUit6Q1O

Support Margaret:

Orchestra of the 18th Century: https://orchestra18c.com/

All of Bach: https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/allofbach

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American violinist Anna Jane Lester chats about Buonamente’s Sonata Seconda for 3 Violins, ornamentation, and Beyonce.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for main pieces: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3BRom90ebzqKrDudeVZtYo

Spotify playlist for final question pieces: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2rzB0a4C4nNjO0MR8VLQdQ

Further information about Baroque music and Baroque instruments: https://www.baroque.org/baroque/whatis

Giovanni Battista Buonamente: https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110810104528259

Claudio Monteverdi: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Claudio-Monteverdi

Wiki link to San Marco Cathedral, where lots of echo music was written in the 17th Century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mark%27s_Basilica

Wiki link to Italian composer, Dario Castello: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Castello

Support Anna:

Butter Quartet: butterquartet.com and @butterquartet on instagram

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Australian composer Alice Chance chats about various pieces that shaped her identity as a composer, synesthesia, and viola da gamba.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for main pieces: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3BRom90ebzqKrDudeVZtYo

Spotify playlist for final question pieces: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2rzB0a4C4nNjO0MR8VLQdQ

Synesthesia: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/synesthesia

Viola da gamba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viol

Modes described by a sweet British man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMftXzZrv3g

Australian composers mentioned: Ross Edwards, Paul Stanhope, Elena Kats-Cherinin, Nigel Westlake

Support Alice:

Alice’s website: http://alicechance.com/

Contribute to her interactive compositions: http://alicechance.com/infinityfordinner

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American clarinettist Dominic Giardino chats about Mozart’s Requiem, the film Amadeus, and the basset horn.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for main pieces: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3BRom90ebzqKrDudeVZtYo

Spotify playlist for final question pieces: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2rzB0a4C4nNjO0MR8VLQdQ

1937 recording of Requiem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuOtOcDdv6Q&t=586s

Amadeus: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086879/

List of all music by Mozart used in films: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003665/

Basset horn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basset_horn

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