Take My Hand
The romantic music of Alexander Borodin is explored in this episode of Inside Music. Maestro Maull will focus on the Polovtsian Dances from Borodin’s opera Prince Igor. These dances were a favorite composition of…
Glenmede
A Holiday Barn Burner
Host George Marriner Maull keeps the holiday spirit going with Waltz of the Flowers from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. Normally performed perhaps a thousand times worldwide at this time of year,…
It’s Beginning to Sound A Lot Like…
With the Covid pandemic still very much affecting social behavior, we are perhaps – depending on our personal view of the situation – being spared the annual bombardment of our…
A Little Romance
The music of Johann Strauss, Jr. has cast a dreamlike spell on listeners and dancers alike for over one-hundred years. Maestro Maull recalls hearing an attendee at one of the…
The Deeper Side of Brahms
Perhaps as well as any composer and frankly better than most, Johannes Brahms was able to convey the feeling of loss… the death of a close friend, an irretrievable loss of…
Mother and Child
American composer William Grant Still decided to orchestrate the 2nd movement of his 1943 Suite for Violin and Piano for string orchestra. The result? An intensified version of what was already a very moving musical…
This has been an incredible series. I could take in SO much more than I could at the beginning ones. You have really trained my ears!!! I have been enjoying classical music for more than 60 years (as a child my parents played classical music at dinner and we guessed the composer) but I NEVER knew how to listen before!