This is another episode where I highly recommend listening to Part 1 from last week before listening to this episode! It was a great honor to speak with the critic and cultural historian Jeremy Eichler about his remarkable new book "Time's Echo." In today's episode, we speak about Richard Strauss' Metamorphosen, as well as the complicated and hotly debated questions about Strauss' activities during World War II. We also talk about Shostakovich and his 13th Symphony, entitled "Babi Yar," a piece of memorial for a place where no memorial had stood for decades. Finally, we speak about Benjamin Britten and his War Requiem. We talk about Britten's devout pacificism, about his visit to the Belsen Displaced Persons camp after World War II, and why his War Requiem seems to have more connection with World War I than with World War II. It was truly a joy to talk to Jeremy about all of these different great composers, as well as the memories they created with their works. Join us!
The Life and Music of George Gershwin
Haydn Symphony No. 94, "Surprise"
Derrick Skye: "Prisms, Cycles, and Leaps" w/ Derrick Skye
The Music of Olivier Messiaen
Dvorak Symphony No. 8
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4, "Italian"
Brahms Piano Quartet in G Minor (+Schoenberg!)
Berio Folk Songs
Prokofiev Symphony No. 5
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24
The Life and Music of Florence Price
Mahler Symphony No. 9, Part 4
Mahler Symphony No. 9, Part 3
Mahler Symphony No. 9, Part 2
Mahler Symphony No. 9, Part 1
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4
Barber Adagio For Strings
Schubert Symphony No. 8, "Unfinished"
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2
Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead
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