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Oliver Craske has just published the first biography of the legendary Indian musician Ravi Shankar. Craske knew and worked with Shankar near the end of his life, and carried out extensive research to tell the tale of the man who brought Indian music to the west. (Apologies for the poor Skype audio quality.) Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: Oliver Craske Indian Sun Show notes: The Ravi Shankar Foundation Ravi Shankar: Improvisations Our next tracks: Thomas Mapfumo: Mabasa Fleetwood Mac: Mr Wonderful If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Oliver Craske.Support The Next Track

Anne Midgette resigned as classical music critic for the Washington Post a few months ago, but she is well placed to discuss the dangers facing live performances of classical music in The After. And she tells us about the historical novel she's writing about the woman who built pianos for Beethoven. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: Anne Midgette Anne Midgette's articles on the Washington Post Show notes: Furloughed Musicians and A New Digital Frontier: Performing Arts in the COVID-19 Shutdown Julliard Bolero A String Quartet Is Crushed by the Coronavirus Classical music in crisis - this what the future looks like Coronadämmerung Our next tracks: Bruce Springsteen: Greetings from Asbury Park N. J. Kraftwerk: Computer World If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Anne Midgette.Support The Next Track

We talk with harpsichordist, conductor, and "general music addict" Richard Egarr, about original performance practice in early music. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: Richard Egarr Show notes: Richard Egarr on Harmonia Mundi Richard Egarr on Linn Records Academy of Ancient Music Goldberg Variations Johann Sebastian Bach's tuning How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) Schubert: Lebenssturme (Richard Egarr's four-hands Schubert recording) Livestream: Richard Egarr & Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya: Quatre-Mains, May 5 Our next tracks: J. S. Bach: Suites for Violoncello Solo, Anner Bylsma The Electric Flag: A Long Time Comin' If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Richard Egarr.Support The Next Track

We talk with pianist Marc-André Hamelin, whose repertoire, in more than 60 recordings, covers many little-known composers, as well as a number of twentieth-century works, by composers such as Ives, Rzewski, and Feldman. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: Marc-André Hamelin Show notes: Marc-André Hamelin on Hyperion Records Marc-André Hamelin stream for the 92nd Street Y Rockport Music’s Virtual Gala 2020 Cathy Fuller Catoire: Piano Music Ives & Barber: Piano Sonatas Ives: Three Places in New England, Ruggles: Sun Treader, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas Charles Ives: Essays Before a Sonata Ives: Concord Sonata, John Kirkpatrick Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated! Feldman: For Bunita Marcus Our next tracks: Morton Feldman: For Philip Guston The Andrew Oldham Orchestra: The Rolling Stones Songbook If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Marc-André Hamelin.Support The Next Track

We talk with Ian Bostridge, Kirk's second-favorite lieder singer, about life in lockdown, and about Schubert's Winterreise, the song cycle that Bostridge is best known for, through his many performances, recordings, films, and a book he wrote about it. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: Ian Bostridge Show notes: Lieder (Wikipedia) Ian Bostridge – a life in music (Guardian) Ravel: Chansons madécasses Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession Michel Pastoreau: Blue: The History of a Color Ian Bostridge: Why Winterreise? Schubert’s song cycle, then and now (video, 2014) Ian Bostridge and Jeremy Denk on Winterreise: Anatomy of an Obsession (video, 2015) Witchcraft and its Transformations, c.1650-c.1750 Our next tracks: Ian Bostridge: Winterreise (video, 2016) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Alfred Brendel (video, 1979)- Herbie Hancock: Head Hunters If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Ian Bostridge.Support The Next Track

Michael Connelly writes crime fiction, and his character Harry Bosch loves jazz. We talk with Michael about how he decided what music Bosch liked, and how he uses music in the novels and TV series. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support is what keeps us going. Thanks! Support The Next Track. Guest: Michael Connelly The Murder Book Podcast Sound of Redemption – The Frank Morgan Story Music from Bosch playlist (curated by Amazon) Bosch playlist (user created on Apple Music) The house in Bosch Bosch's stereo system (with a McIntosh 240 tube amplifier) Apple Music Jazzzzzzzzz playlist Show notes: The Music in the Novels The Bosch TV series Our next tracks: Kenny Wheeler: Angel Song The Derek Trucks Band: Already Free If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Michael Connelly.Support The Next Track

A lot of musicians, suddenly faced with no opportunities for public performance, are opting to stream live from their homes. Andy Doe joins us to discuss what it means for all the musicians to have to build streaming studios in their homes from scratch, and gives tips on how best to set up cameras, lights, and microphones. Guest: Andy Doe Show notes: Tim Cook's video Rode NT-USB Mini, a small, inexpensive USB microphone with good audio quality May Morning - Magdalen College Impulse response reverb Alex Ross's COVID-19 livestream list Our next tracks: Lou Reed: Street Hassle DEVO: Duty Now For The Future If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Support The Next Track

We chat with violinist Alina Ibragimova, who is taking advantage of the lockdown to learn the Paganini caprices in her home in London. Guest: Alina Ibragimova Alina Ibragimova on Hyperion Records The Alina Ibragimova Violin Playlist on Apple Music Show notes: Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien Review of Rolf Wallin violin concerto, Proms 2018 Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin Our next tracks: Takemitsu: From Me Flows What You Call Time (CD); Berliner Philharmoniker & Yutaka Sado (DVD/Blu-Ray) Zoë Keating: Into the Trees If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Alina Ibragimova.Support The Next Track

In this episode, we talk with the pianist and author Stephen Hough, about how the lockdown is affecting him, how he has "the backside of a rhinoceros," and we discuss how classical concerts could change in the future. Guest: Stephen Hough Angela Hewitt on Twitter Stephen Hough on Hyperion Records The Stephen Hough Piano Playlist an Apple Music Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More Show notes: I miss concerts but solo music-making seems more sublime than ever (Guardian) MacArthur Fellows Episode #18 – New Yorker Music Critic Alex Ross Discusses Listening to Classical Music Piano Day Our next tracks: Nils Frahm: Empty Fountains Of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Stephen Hough.Support The Next Track

In the first of a number of out-of-band episodes that we're planning to release in the coming weeks, we talk with pianist Angela Hewitt, best known for her extraordinary recordings of all of Bach's keyboard works. Guest: Angela Hewitt Angela Hewitt on Twitter Angela Hewitt on Hyperion Records The Angela Hewitt Bach Playlist an Apple Music The Angela Hewitt Baroque Playlist on Apple Music Show notes: Led by the hand (article about Murray Perahia's thumb injury) Virtuoso mourns beloved £150,000 piano smashed by movers Fazioli pianos A Late Quartet Our next tracks: Bob Dylan: Murder Most Foul (YouTube) Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson: Ella And Oscar If you like the show, please subscribe in iTunes or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.Special Guest: Angela Hewitt.Support The Next Track