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Exploring Music is playing music of Arvo Part this week, among some others from the USSR. Last night listened to his Symphony No. 4.

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That was a nice way to start the day. Thanks, Peter!

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Thank you for posting that, Chris! The local radio station will not do choral or vocal works except on Sunday mornings, for whatever reason I do not...

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I took the opportunity to turn to my recording of Boulez performing Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle. That is a work I do not listen to enough.

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The Third Symphony of this Bernstein cycle was pretty much up to par, as far as what I would expect from Bernstein. However, it is interesting to me...

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I enjoyed listening to Leonore, as envisioned by Gardner, and performed with him at the helm. This morning I listened to the first two movements of the...

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It's certainly too bad that the opera did give him such a workout. He might have been inclined to compose another, but at least we have what we hav...

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Just started listening to Beethoven's Opera, Leonore. This is, I believe, John Eliot Gardner's project in creating a recording of the first version of...

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Welcome back, Megan! This morning I listened to the first two sections of the Misa Solemnis.