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.
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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!
(2 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10)Loading... 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
(1 votes, average: 7.00 out of 10)Loading... 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:
(2 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10)Loading... I do also love me a good Philip Glass piece. This one is played by the man himself.
Montreal, March 7, 2015
(2 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10)Loading... 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!
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(3 votes, average: 8.67 out of 10)Loading... I've been listening to a lot of classical music while I work. In November, I heard a piano piece by Connor Chee called "Unbroken" that stopped me in my tracks. There isn't a video of that one available, so here's another piece of his.
And just for funsies:
(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 10)Loading... Just feels like a good day for something like this
(1 votes, average: 10.00 out of 10)Loading... I've started listening to a lot more classical music in the last year*, mainly by streaming MPR's classical station. By luck, I heard this flute piece by Yuko Uebayashi and was thoroughly hooked.
*It's interesting how technology can shape our listening habits. I had been working from home on my personal laptop since the pandemic hit, but the IT department was upgrading laptops, so I finally got one. It's a big improvement for doing work (larger screen, easier access to stuff on the server), but I don't have any sort of music streaming service on it, so my listening habits shifted accordingly.
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