Outside the MusicBox

Australian violist, Katie Yap, talks about Leoš Janáček’s String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’, the influence of Eastern European folk music on Janacek’s composing, and the supportive role of the violist and how this metaphor can help us be better humans.   Useful links: Spotify playlist for Katie’s pieces  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ilPPDYJ1WGGgEuffxiZbf?si=iEWFqBznSbiKtFJX-4dyug&pi=e-fHeHIxBOSFSY  Spotify playlist for main pieces https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3BRom90ebzqKrDudeVZtYo Spotify playlist for final question pieces https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2rzB0a4C4nNjO0MR8VLQdQ   Other useful links: Leoš Janáček https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%C5%A1_Jan%C3%A1%C4%8Dek Viola d’amore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_d%27amore  Leoš Janáček’s opera, Cunning Little Vixen ​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKkZqQYw5bk&t=1252s  Introduction video of viola d’amore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzmz8Raeqm8 Video of a hardanger fiddle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di1F8GUvEtg Bulgarian Gadulka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dhWUcqaf_g South Asian sitar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitar   Support Katie: Katie’s website: https://www.katieyap.com/ Katie’s YouTube channel: Katie Yap - viola https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWzLZvqChnlkzORwmR9_eWQ  Australian Brandenburg Orchestra https://www.brandenburg.com.au/our-story/meet-the-orchestra/  Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra https://www.arco.org.au/  The Muses’ Delight https://www.themusesdelight.com/concerts   Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/outsidemusicbox  Facebook: @MusicBoxConcerts https://www.facebook.com/MusicBoxConcerts Instagram: @musicboxconcerts https://www.instagram.com/musicboxconcerts/ Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox https://twitter.com/OutsideMusicBox Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com

Happy 1 year Outside the MusicBox anniversary! Here is an update about what’s next for this podcast.    Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox  Facebook: @MusicBoxConcerts  Instagram: @musicboxconcerts  Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com  

Keyboardist Kristian Bezuidenhout talks about Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, obsessing over recordings as a teenager, and the dichotomy of Bach as both a total genius and also just a working guy.   Useful links: Spotify playlist for Kristian’s pieces  Spotify playlist for main pieces  Spotify playlist for final question pieces    Other useful links: Johann Sebastian Bach  St. Matthew Passion background information  English translation of St. Matthew Passion text  Thomaskirche (St. Thomas Church) in Leipzig, Germany, where St. Matthew Passion was premiered  History of St. Matthew Passion being performed in the Netherlands  John Eliot Gardiner  John Eliot Gardiner’s 1989 recording of St. Matthew Passion Recitative  Aria  Arioso  Chorale  Viola da Gamba, or Viol/Gamba for short  Basso Continuo, or Continuo for short  A discussion on some problematic aspects of the Bach Passions    Support Kristian: Kris Bezuidenhout’s website, where you can purchase CDs: http://kristianbezuidenhout.com/    Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox  Facebook: @MusicBoxConcerts  Instagram: @musicboxconcerts Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com

English violist Annette Isserlis talks about 17th-century music by Orlando Gibbons and Henry Purcell, starting out as a ballet dancer, and being swept up in the experience of collective music making.    Useful links: Spotify playlist for Annette’s pieces  Spotify playlist for main pieces  Spotify playlist for final question pieces    Other useful links: The Viol  Orlando Gibbons  Plainchant  The “In Nomine” plainchant, which was used as the basis of pieces by many composers throughout history  Henry Purcell  False relations (blue notes)   Jean-Philippe Rameau  Rameau’s Les Boreades    Support Annette: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s video platform, OAE Player  Annette’s podcast, Tea With Netty   English Baroque Soloists    Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox  Facebook: @MusicBoxConcerts  Instagram: @musicboxconcerts Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com

French soprano, Julie Roset, talks about Sigismondo d’India’s Infelice Didone and Jules Massenet’s Ah! Douce enfant, how singers’ voices change as they age, and what it’s like pretending to be a fairy.   Useful links: Spotify playlist for Julie’s pieces  Spotify playlist for main pieces  Spotify playlist for final question pieces    Other useful links: Sigismondo d’India  Claudio Monteverdi  The story of Dido and Aeneas  Francesco Turrisi’s episode, where we talk about Dido’s Lament, by Henry Purcell  Recitativo vs aria  17th-century Spice Trade Routes with map showing the trading route via Sicily  Jules Massenet  Massenet’s opera, Cendrillon (Cinderella)  MET Opera, New York City    Support Julie: Julie’s Facebook: @JulieRosetSoprano  Julie’s Instagram: @juthyana  Watch the livestream of Julie’s debut at the Opéra-Comique, Paris  Holland Baroque’s latest CD, Brabant 1653, in which Julie is featured    Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox   Facebook: @MusicBoxConcerts  Instagram: @musicboxconcerts  Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com

Violinist Shaun Lee-Chen talks about Chausson’s Poeme, the original cycling hipsters, and old recordings.   Useful links: Spotify playlist for Shaun’s pieces  Spotify playlist for main pieces  Spotify playlist for final question pieces    Other useful links: Ernest Chausson’s Poeme  Violinist, Eugene Ysaye  Maurice Ravel’s Tzigane  Violinist, Jascha Heifetz  For a deep dive nerd out on 19th-century ways of performing, you can check out Emma’s Masters thesis here: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/561381/563632    Support Shaun: Shaun playing *viola* in a duet with Christian Li playing violin  Australian Brandenburg Orchestra  Shaun’s position as lecturer at the University of Western Australia  Shaun playing on the UWA Conservatorium of Music Youtube channel    Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox  Facebook: @MusicBoxConcerts  Instagram: @musicboxconcerts  Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox  Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com

Bonus Christmas Special! Emma and Chloe answer more listener questions and wrap up 2020. Stay tuned for more fun times in 2021 Outside the MusicBox!   Rachael Beesley’s work on Flow http://www.rachaelbeesley.com/flow.html Wonderbound contemporary dance company in Denver, Colorado https://www.wonderbound.com How scales and keys work in music https://learningmusic.ableton.com/notes-and-scales/keys-and-scales.html Key Characteristics table https://4c07335b-13d6-47c3-8533-90b0d4feca97.filesusr.com/ugd/bbfdbb_ec35d032a55b44e299fb83b49b349944.pdf Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/en/the-halls#laeiszhalle    Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MusicBoxConcerts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/musicboxconcerts/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/OutsideMusicBox Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com

Composer and cellist Cris Derksen talks about Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, braiding her Cree and Mennonite ancestry, and how her dog might be a witch.    Useful links: Spotify playlist for Cris’s pieces   Spotify playlist for main pieces  Spotify playlist for final question pieces    Other useful links: Modest Mussorgsky  Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain   Youtube video of the Night on Bald Mountain bit in the Disney Fantasia movie from 1940 Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition   What is a Powwow  Eybler String Quartet    Support Cris: Cris’s website: https://www.crisderksen.com/ Facebook: @cris.derksen Instagram: @cris_derksen  Cris Derksen on Spotify  Cris Derksen on Youtube    Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox  Facebook: @MusicBoxConcerts Instagram: @musicboxconcerts Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox  Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com

Double bassist Rob Nairn talks about arias by Robert Schumann and Agostino Steffani, his love of opera, and secret bass bonding activities.   Useful links: Spotify playlist for Rob’s pieces  Spotify playlist for main pieces  Spotify playlist for final question pieces    Other useful links: Robert Schumann  Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust  Violone  Richard Wagner   Bayreuth Wagner Festival  Agostino Steffani  The story of Niobe in Greek Mythology  Agostino Steffani’s opera Niobe, regina di Tebe   Philippe Jarrousky  Boston Early Music Festival   Opera singer, Maria Callas   Jazz bass clarinetist and saxophonist, Eric Dolphy    Support Rob: Email: rnairn03@gmail.com  Ironwood’s latest CD: Romantic Dreams: Quintets for Piano and Strings  Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Brandenburg One  Adelaide Baroque    Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox  Facebook: @OutsidetheMusicBox  Instagram: @outsidethemusicbox  Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox  Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com

Violist Max Mandel talks about Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, making music with friends, and some viola jokes for good measure.    Useful links: Spotify playlist for Max’s pieces  Spotify playlist for main pieces  Spotify playlist for final question pieces    Other useful links: Violin vs viola  String Quartet description  Symphony description  Concerto description  Cadenza description   Guy Fishman’s episode (where we talk about cadenzas)  Info on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  Background on Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra   The Mannheim Rocket  Julia Wedman’s episode (where we talk about scordatura tuning)  Haydn’s “Joke” string quartet  Viola jokes    Support Max: OAE Players digital concert platform  Flux Quartet  Spunicunifait  Max’s Twitter: @MaxTMandel    Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox  Facebook: @MusicBoxConcerts  Instagram: @musicboxconcerts  Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox  Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com

Percussionist Marianna Soroka talks about four different pieces that helped shape her life, sharing the stage with live horses in a 90’s Polish opera house, and the history of the frame drum.    Useful links: Spotify playlist for Marianna’s pieces Spotify playlist for main pieces  Spotify playlist for final question pieces    Other useful links: Modest Mussorgsky  Boris Godunov full opera on Youtube: Acts I and II , Acts III and IV Early Russian Orthodox choral singing  Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Bogoroditse Devo (the choir piece Emma sang in youth choir where everyone took sneaky breaths to keep the phrase going forever)  Buddy Rich  Live video of Buddy Rich playing (so you can see his “driving” way of playing the drums)   Leszek Możdżer  Frame drums  Percussionist Zohar Fresco playing frame drums in their traditional Arabic setting  Portuguese square frame drum  Bodhran (Irish frame drum)  Steve Reich   Short documentary on Steve Reich talking about his music  Reich’s Clapping Music    Support Marianna: Website: mariannasoroka.com  Instagram: marianna_soroka     Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox  Facebook: @MusicBoxConcerts Instagram: @musicboxconcerts Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com

Violinist Katarina Aleksić talks about Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklaerte Nacht (Transfigured Night), growing up in former Yugoslavia, and the magic of communicating with people on an unspoken level.   Useful links: Spotify playlist for Katarina’s pieces  Spotify playlist for main pieces  Spotify playlist for final question pieces    Other useful links: Traditional Serbian song Katarina was taught as a child  Arnold Schoenberg  Schoenberg’s Verklaerte Nacht (Transfigured Night) background and poem translation  Twelve-Tone Technique  Explanation of chromatic scales (by a man who reminds us of that guy in the Princess Bride)    Support Katarina: RTS Symphony Orchestra, Serbia  Holland Baroque    Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox  Facebook: @OutsidetheMusicBox  Instagram: @outsidethemusicbox  Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox  Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com

Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi talks about ostinato basslines, the similarities between language and musical improvisation, and how the basslines used in Radiohead and My Funny Valentine are a lot older than we think.   Useful links: Spotify playlist for Francesco’s pieces  Spotify playlist for main pieces  Spotify playlist for final question pieces   More useful links: Ostinato bassline  Improvisation in music  Bebop jazz  *Correction (23:37): Charlie Parker saxophone solo  The Early Music Movement in Classical music   The harpsichord  The organ  Henry Purcell’s opera, Dido and Aeneas The Villancico  Video featuring Rhiannon Giddens talking about the history of the minstrel banjo   Support Francesco: Website: https://www.francescoturrisi.com/ Patreon for Francesco and his partner, Rhiannon Giddens: https://www.patreon.com/rhiannongiddens Bandcamp: https://francescoturrisi.bandcamp.com/ Buy Francesco’s album based on 17th-century music: https://diatriberecords.bandcamp.com/album/si-dolce-il-tormento Buy Francesco’s solo piano album: https://francescoturrisi.bandcamp.com/album/northern-migrations   Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox  Facebook: @OutsidetheMusicBox  Instagram: @outsidethemusicbox  Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox  Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com

Bonus episode! Join us this episode as we answer some great questions from our listeners and announce our NEW PayPal link where you can donate. It’s really easy to donate to keep this podcast going! Just head to PayPal.me/MusicBoxConcerts and choose the currency and amount you want to donate.    Useful links: Opening music that we recorded with Holland Baroque. Highly recommend checking out the whole album!  Mozart’s music in films and TV shows  Mozart’s Requiem  Schubert’s Rosamunde string quartet  Biber’s Mystery Sonatas (with organ accompaniment)  Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 1in G minor  Power posing TED Talk by Dr Amy Cuddy    We are jealous of: Any music for viola da gamba  Bassoon parts in early French operas such as this one  Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2   Get in touch with us! *DONATE*: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox  Facebook: @OutsidetheMusicBox  Instagram: @outsidethemusicbox  Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox  Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com

Conductor Joshua Weilerstein chats about Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, nerdy piano improvisation duels, and how cultural identity shapes our way of listening to music.    Useful links: Spotify playlist for Joshua’s pieces  Spotify playlist for main pieces  Spotify playlist for final question pieces    Other useful links: Ludwig van Beethoven  Lausanne Chamber Orchestra performs all of Beethoven’s symphonies  Article explaining Beethoven’s challenging of Steibelt to a piano improvisation duel  Reenactment of a piano improvisation duel of Beethoven vs Steibelt in Vienna at the turn of the 19th century  Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony  NPR article about the Eroica Symphony  The riot in the audience at the premier of Igor Stravinksy’s Rite of Spring  Mahler’s Symphony No. 6  Jan Swafford’s book on Beethoven  Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 conducted by Leonard Bernstein    Support Joshua: Website: https://joshuaweilerstein.com/ Facebook: @joshuaweilerstein  Instagram: @joshuaweilerstein  Twitter: @joshweilerstein  Sticky Notes podcast hosted by Joshua Sticky Notes Patreon page    Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox  Facebook: @OutsidetheMusicBox  Instagram: @outsidethemusicbox  Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox  Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com

Cellist Guy Fishman chats about Vivaldi’s Cello Concerto in C minor, his introduction to classical music in Texas, and the joys of exploring sheet music stores.   Useful links: Spotify playlist for Guy’s pieces  Spotify playlist for main pieces  Spotify playlist for final question pieces    Other useful links: Antonio Vivaldi  Check out our episode with Kati Debretzeni to find out more about Vivaldi!  Broekmans & Van Poppel music store in the Netherlands  Antonín Dvořák    Support Guy: Handel and Haydn’s “Tuning In” podcast hosted by Guy  The best way to order Guy’s CDs is by emailing him at: gfishman@handelandhaydn.org   Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox  Facebook: @OutsidetheMusicBox  Instagram: @outsidethemusicbox  Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox  Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com

Mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean chats about Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs, Caroline Shaw’s Cant voi l’aube, and how 70s disco shaped her musical taste.   Useful links: Spotify playlist for Lotte’s pieces  Spotify playlist for main pieces  Spotify playlist for final question pieces    Other useful links: Composer Luciano Berio  Australian National Academy of Music  Ensemble Q  Mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian  Luciano Berio’s Sequenza III for solo female voice, premiered by Berio’s wife, Cathy Berberian  Video of Cathy Berberian performing her Stripsody (showing the score)  Father of the American folk revival, Pete Seeger’s obituary in the NY Times  Composer Caroline Shaw  Mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter  Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices  Netherlands Dance Theatre trailer for the contemporary dance production of Caroline Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices  Norman Connors  Aquarian Dream  Bela Bartok’s Piano Sonata, Sz. 80   Support Lotte: Lotte performs online concert through the Tait Memorial Trust  Lotte’s website https://www.lottebettsdean.com/ Lotte’s social media: Facebook , Instagram, & Twitter    Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox  Facebook: @OutsidetheMusicBox  Instagram: @outsidethemusicbox  Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox  Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com

Violinist Rachael Beesley talks us through Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, deranged opium nightmares, and whether the violin or the french horn is the most difficult instrument.   Useful links: Spotify playlist for Rachael’s pieces  Spotify playlist for main pieces  Spotify playlist for final question pieces    Aurora Orchestra performing a staged version of Symphonie Fantastique from memory (watch from 23:00 for the symphony) Original Symphonie Fantastique score with Berlioz’s descriptions for each movement  Berlioz’s text translated to English  PBS article with background information on the piece  Guardian article on Symphonie Fantastique with lots of interesting quotes from Berlioz’s letters  Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts: Berlioz Takes a Trip  Serpent instrument  Ophicleide instrument  More information on Flow    Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra  Rachael’s website  Ironwood’s latest album of Louise Farrenc & Camille Saint-Saëns  Badass 19th- and 20th-century female violinists and composers to check out: Maud Powell, Louise Farrenc, Ginette Neveu, Marie Soldat-Roeger, Renée Chemet   Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox  Facebook: @OutsidetheMusicBox  Instagram: @outsidethemusicbox  Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com

Canadian violinist Julia Wedman chats about Biber’s Mystery Sonatas, scordatura, and adventures in Salzburg with the help of a janitor named Ziggy.   Useful links: Julia’s Spotify playlist  Spotify playlist for main pieces from all episodes   Spotify playlist for final question pieces from all episodes      More useful links: Heinrich Iganz Franz von Biber  Scordatura  Photo of the crossed middle strings from the Resurrection sonata  Pavlo Beznosiuk’s recording, who also has readings of the psalters  Julia Wedman    Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox  Facebook: @OutsidetheMusicBox  Instagram: @outsidethemusicbox  Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com

Keyboardist Tineke Steenbrink talks us through Corelli’s Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 11 in B-flat Major, acoustic pots hidden in medieval churches, and her realisation that Harry Potter’s library doesn’t actually exist.    Useful links: Tineke’s Spotify playlist  Spotify playlist for main pieces from all episodes Spotify playlist for final question pieces from all episodes   More useful links: Information on how pipe organs work King Louis XIV (The Sun King) Arcangelo Corelli Bach’s Art of Fugue (sometimes uses Corelli’s bassline) Schnitger organ catalogue Sound pots in churches that enhance acoustics The book about Utrecht that features in Harry Potter movies George Frideric Handel and his link to Corelli Schubert’s Trout Quintet Haydn’s “Fifths” String Quartet If you want to watch Tineke play harpsichord   Support Tineke: Holland Baroque Support our musicians during the COVID crisis    Get in touch with us! DONATE: PayPal.Me/OutsideMusicBox  Facebook: @OutsidetheMusicBox  Instagram: @outsidethemusicbox  Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox  Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.com Website: www.musicboxconcerts.com