If you don't feel awake yet, I bet this will do the trick!
Reading more about this piece, I was quite surprised to learn that it was first staged in June 1937. I had somehow assumed it was much older than that.
If you don't feel awake yet, I bet this will do the trick!
Reading more about this piece, I was quite surprised to learn that it was first staged in June 1937. I had somehow assumed it was much older than that.
What's not to love about this song?!
I was quite taken with this conductor, Nicolò Foron, and it turns out that this video is from the finals of the 2023 Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, which he won. Hurrah!
I know the question on everyone's minds has been . . . will Pepper play anything under 10 minutes this week? You are in luck, because this twentieth century flute piece, which my high school self was quite taken with, comes in well under that mark.
Hélène Boulègue, flute
François Dumont, piano
I was taken with another Þorvaldsdóttir composition recently that doesn't seem to exist as a live video anywhere, but my searching led me to this one.
January 31, 2019
Fun fact: I got to visit Harpa Concert Hall ever so briefly on my first day in Iceland.
And here's a trailer for the piece I'd wanted to play:
I do also love me a good Philip Glass piece. This one is played by the man himself.
Montreal, March 7, 2015
Since I last took a turn as guest DJ, I've been listening to a lot of classical music. So maybe that's what I'll do this week? We'll see...
June 26, 2020
This one is a longtime favorite; I think I actually had it on cassette back in the day!
NSFW
This has been in my head for days for no reason.