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From the most profound classical music recordings ever made, to genres and musical perspectives from around the globe, talk on music, art and recordings that changed our lives and the world around us. Tune-in as we explore why we only listen to "dead" people, and what is "alive" in music today. Special guests, call-ins welcome.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Images Approx. start time
Ann Beilby, viola  But when I sleep (for solo viola) by Brian Elias   Favoriting Brian Elias: Music for Strings  Signum Records  2024 
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Yuri Bashmet, viola, Sviatoslav Richter, piano  D. Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147   Favoriting   Melodia  1985 
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Emil Gilels, piano  L.v. Beethoven: Sonata Quasi una fantasia, Op. 27, No. 2   Favoriting Live At Carnegie Hall  Victor  1969    0:46:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Vladimir Horowitz, piano  J.S. Bach-Busoni: Chorale in G minor, "Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland"   Favoriting From the documentary "The Last Romantic"    1985 
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Glenn Gould, piano  J.S. Bach: Prelude & Fugue in C minor, BWV 847: Fugue   Favoriting Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Preludes & Fugues Nos. 1-8, BWV 846-853  Sony Music Entertainment  1963 
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Sviatoslav Richter  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 'June: Barcarolle', from The Seasons, Op. 37a   Favoriting Live in Budapest    1983    1:09:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Sviatoslav Richter  F. Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173: IX. Andante lagrimoso   Favoriting Live in Kiev    1982    1:15:53 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Cello & Celeste  J. Brahms: Lullaby   Favoriting Walt Disney's Lullabies  Disneyland  1961    1:39:13 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Paul Winter, saxophone, Daniel Ficarri  unknown   Favoriting Live at Cathedral of St. John the Divine (NYC)    2024    1:43:06 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Monteverdi Choir · English Baroque Soloists · John Eliot Gardiner, cond.  J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Dona nobis pacem   Favoriting J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232  SDG  2015    1:45:44 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Rene Calvo  Great Big Man   Favoriting   Private  2024    1:55:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  🎻 6:00pm
Listener Robert:

At last, truth!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "But when I sleep (for solo viola) by Brian Elias"...
How great is this.
  6:03pm
Pianoman:

↳ Listener Robert @6:00
Thanks! We hope so.
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Mark T:

Good evening and great opening song.
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chresti:

Hi dead peoples' music show!
Hi Carol and Cullan!
  6:05pm
aguynamedbenny:

sick.
Avatar 6:05pm
freddie meduza//gothenburg/sweden:

finally off work after four days of mayhem, lets get into the music
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tom tom the pipers son:

hello carol, cullan and all
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Mark T:

That's a great take on the atypical "Gratitude List"
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Mark T:

By the way, welcome fellow dead people fans...
  🎻 6:10pm
Listener Robert:

Just reading thru weekly notes of good things from last year: "Got fresh bread today!" - April 10, 2024. See, forgot that one completely. Now where did I put that loaf?
  6:11pm
chresti:

Happy New Year
  6:13pm
Mama 💜:

I am missing you two especially today! 💜
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ViolaChica:

Happy New Year friends 💜
Avatar 6:18pm
Roberto:

Dead People are going to be hot in '25!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:19pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...makes violin being just the petite version of viola start to make a lot of sense...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "D. Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. ...
Pardon my ignorance - Composer ?
Avatar 6:21pm
freddie meduza//gothenburg/sweden:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @6:21
shostakovich
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ViolaChica:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @6:21
Pardon my oversight on the playlist!
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Roberto:

↳ Roberto @6:18
The deader, the better!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
Bobby:

Hello DJs and dead people!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ ViolaChica @6:22
Aha ! Shostakovich. ThankYou.
...we had Stravinsky the other week... You did speak of it but I missed it...
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Roberto:

↳ Song: "D. Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. ...
Holy shit did the entire audience have TB?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:23pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The History of Classical Recording becomes about people coughing...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:23pm
Hunterian:

↳ Roberto @6:23
Came here to say that
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Roberto:

↳ Hunterian @6:23
That almost sounded like a Monty Python bit.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:24pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @6:23
...to JohnCage's eternal bemusement...
Avatar 6:25pm
slugluv1313:

good evening, Carol! Cullan! Dead People fans!

so happy to be here with you all -- Happy 2025! 🐱🐱
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Roberto @6:24
Right ?
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freddie meduza//gothenburg/sweden:

such a great riffmaster
  🎻 6:25pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @6:24
But so great for Robitussin ads!
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Roberto:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @6:25
But in their version, people start throwing up and farting too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
tom tom the pipers son:

viola= petit version of cello... violin, (inside)---> viola, (inside)---->cello= violellon....have it for thanksgiving
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Listener Robert @6:25
...coulda got BugsBunny in for crosspromotion...
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Captain Space Bass:

Or as my Grandmother used say 'It wasn't the cough that carried them of, it was the coffin they carried them off in'.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Roberto @6:25
HaHa !
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:27pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...in Dimitri's case - maybe Stalin took care of those...
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Roberto:

It's only one mint, and it's wafer-thin!
  6:36pm
carlos danger:

This reminds me quite a bit of the Moonlight Sonata's first movement
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ carlos danger @6:36
thought i heard a bit of that
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Shostakovich always struck me as like light thru the dust of great ruined cathedrals... Association with the Wars of course...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:36
daa...da...da
  6:37pm
carlos danger:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:36
The DUH-duh-DUH motif, the upward arpeggios
  6:37pm
carlos danger:

↳ carlos danger @6:37
jinx!
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tom tom the pipers son:

ha!
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ViolaChica:

↳ carlos danger @6:36
Yes. Supposedly Shostakovich referred to the final movement as an "Adagio in Memory of Beethoven"
  6:40pm
carlos danger:

↳ ViolaChica @6:39
thanks carol!
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tom tom the pipers son:

quite wandering
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ViolaChica:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:45
The final notes Shostakovich ever wrote
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "D. Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. ...
I stand up & clapping.
For some time.
That was extraordinary Thank You.
  6:48pm
Mama 💜:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:07
I really love this piece! Thanks Carol 💜
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ ViolaChica @6:47
...Wow.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ ViolaChica @6:47
right...
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "L.v. Beethoven: Sonata Quasi una fantasia, Op. 27...
it makes sense to "quote" this as a last gesture musically
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
tom tom the pipers son:

shostakavich died in '75 i see...composed that piece somewhat 'a man out of time'
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chresti:

↳ Roberto @6:18
LOL they're trending!
  6:57pm
David:

Amazing how much moonlight with how little pedal
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Roberto:

I've got congestion pricing in my sinuses.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Roberto @7:04
paid to yr ENT?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
tom tom the pipers son:

is this bach-busoni because busoni transcribed it for piano?
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ViolaChica:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:08
Yes!
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Roberto:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:05
No ENT, my insurance sux.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
tom tom the pipers son:

gould looks very 'well tempered' in that image
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Roberto @7:09
so you pay through the nose
Avatar 7:11pm
ViolaChica:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:10
so true
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Roberto:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:10
Oy.
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ViolaChica:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @6:47
This fills my heart. Thank you.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ ViolaChica @7:11
but he was not.....true?
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Roberto:

The funniest false cognate I learned when studying in Spain was "constipado" meaning sinus congestion.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:10
...that could get people coughing I suppose ...while Gould merely grunts...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:12
...or hums along or whatever it was he did...
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Roberto:

When I had a severe cold I was asked, "estas constipado?"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
tom tom the pipers son:

right, though i noticed the audience held their coughs for the end for the most part...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Roberto @7:15
...could practically be an Italian musical term...
Avatar 🎻 Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
chresti:

↳ Roberto @7:15
From a cold?
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Roberto:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:16
Ha! Pretty much all the Italian I know is from musical notation.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:16
ha!...for bass synth
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...a megadose of Vitamin C could help you on either end there...
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Roberto:

↳ chresti @7:17
Yes, constipado con resfriado.
  7:19pm
Bookbabejg:

We’re on with the mandolin player and family
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "F. Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. ...
quite fabulous now
  7:25pm
carlos danger:

What's the succession, again? Van Cliburn's mom was taught by a student of a student of Liszt?
  7:26pm
carlos danger:

lachrymose
  7:27pm
David:

The title for No 9 in Wiki-p is La lampe du temple
  7:28pm
carlos danger:

great article on busoni in the NYT this past week: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/arts/music/ferruccio-busoni-composer-centennial.html?searchResultPosition=1
  🎻 7:29pm
Listener Robert:

This just in....
Avatar 🎻 Swag For Life Member 7:30pm
chresti:

Breaking news
  7:32pm
Bookbabejg:

Since when is New Jersey civilized!!!
Avatar 7:33pm
Roberto:

Yeah, if NJ qualifies as "civilized" then we're all in even more trouble than I thought.
Avatar 🎻 Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
chresti:

Sounds like our house- broken, everything
Avatar 7:35pm
Roberto:

AI works best when it doesn't work quite right.
Avatar 🎻 Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
chresti:

Rescued garbage!
  7:45pm
Pianoman:

↳ Bookbabejg @7:32
Since you moved away!
  7:45pm
Bookbabejg:

Oh. This is incredible
Avatar 🎻 7:46pm
AMYGDALA:

I love you both; such wonderful on-air chemistry - just so great!... Never ceases to put a smile on my face!
  7:47pm
Sufferwords:

best ever soundtrack for watching NFL murder ball- all about balance
  7:47pm
RichS:

Me thinks love is in the air………
  7:49pm
Pianoman:

↳ AMYGDALA @7:46
*blush*
Avatar 🎻 7:50pm
AMYGDALA:

May I please trouble you to add an artist name to the short Brahms piece?

That way it will become enabled with a clicky-star so I can favorite the daylights out of it!

Many thanks, and stuff!
Avatar 🎻 7:52pm
AMYGDALA:

... both the artist and track fields need entries to be favoritable. Thanking you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
tom tom the pipers son:

thanks guys...
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slugluv1313:

exquisite, as always -- thanks so much, Carol and Cullan! 💫⭐
  7:55pm
?:

Bravo, a joy of a show; as enjoyable as two hours of Canon's Pub jukebox
Avatar 7:56pm
Roberto:

What happened to Packard Goose?
Avatar 🎻 Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
chresti:

Thanks C&C!

Computers like to be cursed at
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJs CGCBs ~
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ViolaChica:

↳ AMYGDALA @7:52
should be corrected! we love the favoriting. thanks for being with us.
Avatar 🎻 7:59pm
AMYGDALA:

↳ ViolaChica @7:58
Sweetness!
Thank you Carol,
thank you Cullan,
thank you Carol and Cullan!
Avatar 8:03pm
ViolaChica:

Good night everyone. It was and always is so beautiful to be with you.
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