Friday, November 16, 2007

NPR/WNYC audio links on Berlin Philharmonic in New York

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Once the smoke from the A-Rod coverage cleared, I discovered that The Berlin Philharmonic is in New York this week (ok, so I knew that, and so did you). NPR, in cahoots with WNYC (or vice versa), has cooked up a series of audio excerpts of the Berlin in Lights Festival. A Feast for those with reasonably fast connection speeds and decent speakers:



Landing page for NPR's November 13 webcast of the Berlin Philharmonic



New Yorker critic, author, and blognosticator (The Rest Is Noise) Alex Ross discusses the Berlin Philharmonic with Performance Today host Fred Child



Tenor Ben Heppner describes the songs he sings in Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde



Bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff talks with WNYC's music director, George Preston



Simon Rattle talks with WNYC's John Schaefer



From November 13 Carnegie Hall concert, 'Tevot' by Thomas Ades



And then there is the running commentary on the Festival - with a little bit of Gustavo Dudamel thrown in - from The New York Times blog, ArtsBeat.



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