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February 4

Week 456: “Une Larme” by Modest Mussorgsky

Of all the human body’s processes, crying has to be one of the weirdest. It…

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January 7

Week 452: “Pilgrim’s Hymn” by Stephen Paulus

Traditionally, a pilgrim is someone who is on a journey to a holy place. But…

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November 19

Week 445: “Toccata Arpeggiata” by Johannes Kapsberger

If Baroque music isn’t really your thing, you’re probably not familiar with the theorbo. It’s…

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September 10

Week 435: “Brahms Intermezzo” by Joshua Spacht

It might be a bit of a stretch, but I’m going for it: Johannes Brahms…

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June 18

Week 423: Passepied (Debussy) by Punch Brothers

Despite being contemporaries, Debussy and Tchaikovsky were different in many ways. Tchaikovsky, older by 22…

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June 4

Week 421: “Pater Noster” by Peteris Vasks

As well as being home to composer Peteris Vasks, Latvia is home to a waterfall…

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February 12

Week 405: “Rise Up, My Love” by Healey Willan

This Valentine’s Day, I want you to know something. The Voyager 1 space probe, launched…

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October 2

Week 386: “The Bluebird” by Charles Stanford

Bluebirds have a habit of popping up in music more frequently than most birds. Judy…

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June 5

Week 369: “Cello Sonata in E Minor (First Movement)” by Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi, had he been born a few centuries later, might have fit in well…

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April 17

Week 362: “Prelude No. 3, Op. 17” by Alexander Scriabin

I think one of the big mistakes we often make when setting goals or making…

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February 13

Week 353: “Pur Ti Miro” by Claudio Monteverdi

The problem with love songs is that they’re often one-sided. We only get half the…

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December 19

Week 345: “Nuit” by Marc-Antoine Charpentier

For all its talk of merriment and happiness, Christmas can be a stressful time. It…

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September 5

Week 330: “Trois Beaux Oiseaux De Paradis” by Maurice Ravel

French is a great language for singing. The letter E alone can give you at…

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June 27

Week 320: “The Gallant Weaver” by James MacMillan

Let’s take a second to thank the country of Scotland for its uncanny ability to…

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February 1

Week 299: “O Sacrum Convivium” by Olivier Messaien

Two things strike me about Olivier Messaien: a) He really liked birds, almost to a…

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November 23

Week 289: “Moonlight Sonata” by Ludwig Van Beethoven

On top of being one of the greatest composers of all time, Beethoven might take…

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August 10

Week 274: “Andante Cantabile” by Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky

One of the most popular games to play when analyzing the career of a troubled…

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April 27

Week 259: “Letters Of A Traveller” by Olafur Arnalds

Ever wonder what classical composers would have been like if they had been born in…

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March 23

Week 254: “The Rustle of Spring” by Christian Sinding

Some waterfalls only exist for a few weeks each year. There are several of these…

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January 19

Week 245: “The Miller and the Brook” by Franz Schubert

Classical composers were dying young way before rock stars made it cool. Mozart famously (and…

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