Showing posts with label Guest Playlist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guest Playlist. Show all posts
Friday, January 10, 2014

Guest Playlist: Frank Zappa's Musical Evolution

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Guest post from Kris Herbst: I assembled this playlist of 401 Zappa tracks that, for me, represent his best and most accessible musical ...
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Monday, October 15, 2012

Guest Post: New Music 20x12

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20 outstanding new works, each lasting 12 minutes, commissioned to feature centre stage of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. New Music...
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Monday, August 13, 2012

Guest Post: EMI & Virgin Classics Germany

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The staff at EMI & Virgin Classics Germany compiled a Spotify playlist that features highlights from their recent releases, music for s...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Guest Post: Introducing Bridge Records

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Guest post by Rob Starobin , vice president of Bridge Records ,  an independent record label based in New Rochelle, New York that specialize...
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Monday, April 23, 2012

Spotify Orchestra: Four Playlists for Percussion

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Spotify Orchestra is an ongoing series that focuses on the instruments, featuring playlists curated by professional players. Previous posts...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

Guest Post: Bach's 133 Arias For Tenor

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Jon Ploug Jørgensen is a young Danish classicist, or teacher of classics, with a strong proclivity for all things classical. -------------...
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Monday, January 16, 2012

Guest Post: The Art of Binary, or Music To Code To - Domenico Scarlatti's 555 Keyboard Sonatas

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Marc van Oostendorp is a Professor of Phonology - that is: the study of the sound systems of human languages - in Leiden, the Netherlands, ...
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Monday, December 12, 2011

Guest Post: The Art of Horn

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Kathryn Zevenbergen , a Spotify fan who is studying horn at Zurich University of the Arts, emailed me in July to ask me "how much do y...
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Monday, December 5, 2011

Guest Post: Not Just Another Classical Christmas Playlist

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Last week I discovered a surprisingly enjoyable Christmas playlist on Twitter, and got in touch with its maker, writer Jack Spearing. Jack w...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Guest Post: Classics Today 10/10 Albums

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Another guest post from Sam Callahan , who shared some brilliant trumpet playlists earlier this year. It is a collaborative playlist and an...
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Guest Post: Harp Music

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After one of the brightest and loudest instrument in the orchestra, the trumpet , here comes the softest and gentlest one: the harp. Ruth Ma...
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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Guest Post: The Art Of The Trumpet

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I always planned to make playlists for every major instruments in the orchestra, problem is, I'm not a musician or musicologist, so I th...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Guest Post: Bold as Brass: Some songs featuring, or with critically good bits for, the Horn Section

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Ladies and gentlemen, would you please welcome George Wallace , lawyer, culture blogger , and maker of one of the most creative and enjoyabl...
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Friday, August 19, 2011

Guest Post: Playlists From Naxos

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It's my great pleasure and honor to introduce you Collin from the prominent Naxos label, who created some excellent playlists with Nax...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 500 Greatest Works

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Another epic guest playlist, from Jorge in Sweden. Jorge says: "I have this book, written by Phil G. Goulding , called  Classical ...
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Monday, April 12, 2010

Spellbound: The Sound of The Theremin

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Another guest playlist! I got an email from Martin last weekend: "A couple of contemporary female composers you might like to add to...
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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Guest Playlist: Gerald Finzi's Complete Works

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I've got quite a few emails about this blog recently, and today I received a playlist from a very kind classical listener and Spotify ...
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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Borrowed Playlist: The Swedish Romantic Composers

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Spotify is a great service started from Sweden, so I always wanted to make a playlist of Swedish composers. This morning I found a wonderf...
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