The Next Track

John Wyver's company Illuminations produces films of live performances: theater, dance, opera, and music. He joins us to discuss the future of live performances in what he calls The After, that period when Covid-19 is just a memory. Will live performances be able to start again even if there isn't a vaccine? How can social distancing allow live performances to return? Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: John Wyver - Illuminations Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History Show notes: Shakespeare, from Theater to Cinema: Interview with John Wyver - Part 1, Part 2 The BBC Shakespeare Collection Wigmore Hall live streams Royal Opera House streams Episode #183 - Composer and Pianist Timo Andres on Concertizing at Home Bolero Julliard Magdalen College: Virtual May Morning 2020 As ‘Hamilton’ becomes a movie, suddenly we’re all in the room where it happens Berlin Philharmonker Digital Concert Hall Our next tracks: Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways Supergrass: Life on Other Planets If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: John Wyver.Support The Next Track

We meet harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, who is showing how the harpsichord is no longer an instrument just for "old" music. His latest recording features contemporary music for harpsichord and electronics. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: Mahan Esfahani Musique? Modern and electro-acoustic works for harpsichord Show notes: Wigmore Hall The Poems of T.S. Eliot Read by Jeremy Irons Kazoophony Episode #179 - Pianist Marc-André Hamelin A Playlist of Music by Black Classical Composers Our next tracks: Brad Mehldau: Suite: April 2020 Black Stone Cherry: Black to Blues If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Mahan Esfahani.Support The Next Track

Plex is a great way to manage your media library. Doug and Kirk discuss how they use it. Note: we recorded this episode before the lockdown began, but held off publishing it because we had a number of interviews with musicians in lockdown. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Show notes: Plex A Suitable Boy Our next tracks: Ustad Vilayat Khan: From the NCPA Archives The Pointer Sisters: Yes We Can Can - The Best of the Blue Thumb Recordings If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

TJ Connelly is a sports DJ: he provides "scores" for live sporting events, such as baseball, football, and hockey games. Since the lockdown, he's been out of work, and he has been focusing his attention on Uncertain Times, a daily streaming radio show. We talk with him about what it means to score live sports, and how his streaming show is reconnecting him with real radio. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: TJ Connelly Uncertain Times Show notes: Jock Jams The Duo Behind The Sound Of Fenway Park (WGBH) QLab WFNX Our next tracks: Harrington, Gustin & Zahn: Tura Lura D.I.Y.: Mass. Ave. - The Boston Scene If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: TJ Connelly.Support The Next Track

Timo Andres is a young composer and pianist, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2016. We discuss his music, and how he missed his first solo recital at Carnegie Hall du to the coronavirus lockdown, and decided to make home videos of all the works to present his program to the public. (Apologies for the audio; we made some mistakes when recording.) Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: Timo Andres Timo Andres's recordings House Special; Timo Andres's Carnegie Hall recital filmed in his living room Show notes: Episode #24 – Composer Timo Andres on Contemporary Classical Music Episode #25 – Composer Timo Andres on Contemporary Classical Music, Part 2 List of clarinet quartets (Wikipedia) I Still Play (Nonesuch) Milou Life Inside an Electronic Cottage (Washington Post: 1980) FabFilter Our next tracks: Coda Malo: Malo If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Timo Andres.Support The Next Track

Oliver Craske has just published the first biography of the legendary Indian musician Ravi Shankar. Craske knew and worked with Shankar near the end of his life, and carried out extensive research to tell the tale of the man who brought Indian music to the west. (Apologies for the poor Skype audio quality.) Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: Oliver Craske Indian Sun Show notes: The Ravi Shankar Foundation Ravi Shankar: Improvisations Our next tracks: Thomas Mapfumo: Mabasa Fleetwood Mac: Mr Wonderful If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Oliver Craske.Support The Next Track

Anne Midgette resigned as classical music critic for the Washington Post a few months ago, but she is well placed to discuss the dangers facing live performances of classical music in The After. And she tells us about the historical novel she's writing about the woman who built pianos for Beethoven. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: Anne Midgette Anne Midgette's articles on the Washington Post Show notes: Furloughed Musicians and A New Digital Frontier: Performing Arts in the COVID-19 Shutdown Julliard Bolero A String Quartet Is Crushed by the Coronavirus Classical music in crisis - this what the future looks like Coronadämmerung Our next tracks: Bruce Springsteen: Greetings from Asbury Park N. J. Kraftwerk: Computer World If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Anne Midgette.Support The Next Track

We talk with harpsichordist, conductor, and "general music addict" Richard Egarr, about original performance practice in early music. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: Richard Egarr Show notes: Richard Egarr on Harmonia Mundi Richard Egarr on Linn Records Academy of Ancient Music Goldberg Variations Johann Sebastian Bach's tuning How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) Schubert: Lebenssturme (Richard Egarr's four-hands Schubert recording) Livestream: Richard Egarr & Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya: Quatre-Mains, May 5 Our next tracks: J. S. Bach: Suites for Violoncello Solo, Anner Bylsma The Electric Flag: A Long Time Comin' If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Richard Egarr.Support The Next Track

We talk with pianist Marc-André Hamelin, whose repertoire, in more than 60 recordings, covers many little-known composers, as well as a number of twentieth-century works, by composers such as Ives, Rzewski, and Feldman. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: Marc-André Hamelin Show notes: Marc-André Hamelin on Hyperion Records Marc-André Hamelin stream for the 92nd Street Y Rockport Music’s Virtual Gala 2020 Cathy Fuller Catoire: Piano Music Ives & Barber: Piano Sonatas Ives: Three Places in New England, Ruggles: Sun Treader, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas Charles Ives: Essays Before a Sonata Ives: Concord Sonata, John Kirkpatrick Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated! Feldman: For Bunita Marcus Our next tracks: Morton Feldman: For Philip Guston The Andrew Oldham Orchestra: The Rolling Stones Songbook If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Marc-André Hamelin.Support The Next Track

We talk with Ian Bostridge, Kirk's second-favorite lieder singer, about life in lockdown, and about Schubert's Winterreise, the song cycle that Bostridge is best known for, through his many performances, recordings, films, and a book he wrote about it. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: Ian Bostridge Show notes: Lieder (Wikipedia) Ian Bostridge – a life in music (Guardian) Ravel: Chansons madécasses Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession Michel Pastoreau: Blue: The History of a Color Ian Bostridge: Why Winterreise? Schubert’s song cycle, then and now (video, 2014) Ian Bostridge and Jeremy Denk on Winterreise: Anatomy of an Obsession (video, 2015) Witchcraft and its Transformations, c.1650-c.1750 Our next tracks: Ian Bostridge: Winterreise (video, 2016) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Alfred Brendel (video, 1979)- Herbie Hancock: Head Hunters If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Ian Bostridge.Support The Next Track