All things Piano with Marc-André Hamelin
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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The Importance of Contrast in Programming
I just finished planning a program for a couple of years in the future, which starts with Haydn's sonatas and then segues into an atonal piano piece by Frank Zappa. So I think it's sometimes it's not done out of disrespect to Haydn, but mostly out of having a kind of narrative of characters through a program. Yeah, but sometimes contrast can be good too.
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