Leonard Bernstein at Harvard / The Norton Lectures 1973: "The Unanswered Question"

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CD 1: Volume One "Musical Phonology" part 1
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "First of all..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Perhaps the principal thing..."
1:40
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Let me start..."
0:53
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "This is not just a sentimental anecdote..."
1:52
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "From this time..."
2:29
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "But how do we investigate..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Now you can see..."
1:29
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Universality is a big word..."
2:31
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Other linguists..."
2:46
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "I began by imagining myself..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Well, then I thought..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Let's make a simple analogy..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Maybe even a divine one..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "But where do these notes come from?"
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "This acoustical phenomenon..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "All these upper notes..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "The first overtone..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "But more of that later..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "But let's not make the mistake..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "And that's how the tempered clavichord..."
2:12
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Now this is a substantive universal..."
2:01
CD 2: Volume One "Musical Phonology" part 2
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "But let's be careful..."
1:43
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "And there is always that blue note..."
1:37
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "But even these twelve tones..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "I trust you realize..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "And again comes a great leap..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Now this means..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "This is not to say that there were no drastic changes..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "But meanwhile we are still in the Golden Age..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "So, we're in the midst of a chromatic adventure..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "And all by those progressions..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Now, I must point out..."
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Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Do you realize..."
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Symphony no. 40 in G minor: I. Molto allegro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Symphony no. 40 in G minor: II. Andante
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
8:31
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Symphony no. 40 in G minor: III. Menuetto. Allegretto - Trio
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4:38
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Symphony no. 40 in G minor: IV. Finale. Allegro assai
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
6:10
CD 3: Volume Two "Musical Syntax" part 1
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Every once in a while..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Last week..."
2:24
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Amen, says Noam Chomsky..."
2:09
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "I suppose what Chomsky is really after..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "So, let's pull up our socks..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "All right, let's try another one..."
2:08
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Why am I taking your time..."
2:12
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Well then..."
1:48
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "I think it follows..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "But first, what are these principles..."
1:49
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Transformational grammar..."
1:36
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "But now just think of that sentence..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Since this is not a linguistics class..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Take the passive transformation..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Well, it hasn't brought us there..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Good - now just as three notes are linked together..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Now let's go back..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Now we are ready..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Now I want to take you..."
2:05
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Well, transformation, deletion, embedding, pronominalization..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "I am sure I don't have to trouble..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Here I go..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "I have asked myself..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "I became so fascinated..."
1:43
CD 4: Volume Two "Musical Syntax" part 2
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Let's take one such utterance..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Now imagine..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Now let's see..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Mozart's G minor Symphony..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Now our job is..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "That introductory accompaniment..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "What does this three-note design mean..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "The reason I pick symmetry..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Now from here on..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "And once again, we are back..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "By far the chief transformational principle..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "You see, one of the great failings..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Most people hearing Mozart's opening..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "So what, you ask..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "And if you are still not convinced..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "These ambiguities..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "For instance, in this same first movement..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "So all these syntactic transformations of the same material..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "He talks about this sonnet..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Because now it's time..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "But now let's listen to..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Listen to the whole exposition..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Development coming up..."
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "The circle of fifths again..."
2:03
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Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "And that was all one single sentence..."
1:17
CD 5: Volume Three "Musical Semantics" part 1
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "The other day..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "The first would show us one meaning..."
1:13
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Think of this famous passage..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "A linguist would say..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Well, I replied, Chomsky would say..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Of course, that last metaphorical leap..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Terrific, said my blonde inquisitor..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "In fact, when you think of the number..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "All right, first let's look briefly..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Playing, that's the word..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "But does this Stravinskian game concept..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "There are three specific ways..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Now, having defined my usages of metaphor..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "And here we are in trouble..."
1:06
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Are we feeling what Beethoven supposedly felt..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "We will never know..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Now, if we accept this general idea..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "In our last lecture..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "We all recognize antithesis..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "It can and it does..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "And again, as in the poem..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "In fact, it has been authoritatively suggested..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "We can expand the idea..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "What do you suppose..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "What's seriously striking..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "So why the Pastorale in this lecture..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Let's begin at the beginning..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "But what of the more obvious melodic material..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "But to develop how..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Now we have an insight..."
2:13
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "But wait..."
1:53
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "But why were just those two notes added..."
2:05
CD 6: Volume Three "Musical Semantics" part 2
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "The metaphor arises..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "But in the ensuing four bars..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "But that's not the main event..."
2:05
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Well, that's the beginning..."
1:58
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "That's one of the questions..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "This interference of the two frequencies..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "But what are we to say..."
1:40
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "It is to be found..."
1:39
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Now that's one way of looking..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "At this point..."
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Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Even if you can succeed..."
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Symphony no. 6 in F major "Pastoral" op. 68: I. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande. Allegro ma non troppo
Ludwig van Beethoven
11:07
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Symphony no. 6 in F major "Pastoral" op. 68: II. Szene am Bach. Andante molto moto
Ludwig van Beethoven
13:42
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Symphony no. 6 in F major "Pastoral" op. 68: III. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute. Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven
5:28
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Symphony no. 6 in F major "Pastoral" op. 68: IV. Gewitter, Sturm. Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven
3:43
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Symphony no. 6 in F major "Pastoral" op. 68: V. Hirtengesang. Frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm. Allegretto
Ludwig van Beethoven
10:15
CD 7: Volume Four "The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity" part 1
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "When I first wrote down the title..."
1:41
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Part of the danger..."
2:02
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "The idea of ambiguity..."
1:32
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Similarly, in our second lecture..."
2:06
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Then what's the magic secret..."
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Enough of ambiguity..."
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "The irony of all this..."
2:07
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "But, mind you..."
1:53
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Where music was concerned..."
1:29
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Only think of..."
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "And Chopin: well, we can't ignore Chopin..."
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "And then, in the same little mazurka..."
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Foolish questions..."
1:34
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Let me try to read you..."
1:56
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Listen to this..."
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "They began to intermingle..."
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "The pivotal point..."
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "So there is a dramatic change..."
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "So it is after all not so surprising..."
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Now if you noticed..."
1:40
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "You see, the music is trying hard..."
1:44
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "So that instant in musical time..."
1:33
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Now Romeo is all stirred up..."
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Romeo and Juliet, op. 17: I. Roméo seul: Tristesse - Bruits de concerts et de Bal - Grand fête chez Capulet: Andante malinconico e sostenuto -
Hector Berlioz
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Romeo and Juliet, op. 17: Allegro - Larghetto espressivo -
Hector Berlioz
1:57
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Romeo and Juliet, op. 17: Allegro -
Hector Berlioz
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Romeo and Juliet, op. 17: Réunion des duex themes, du Larghetto et de l'Allegro
Hector Berlioz
3:46
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "What a piece..."
2:30
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Quite unconsciously borrowed..."
1:50
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "My purpose in all this..."
2:26
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Is it, says Wagner..."
2:15
CD 8: Volume Four "The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity" part 2
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Every diminished seventh chord..."
1:23
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Now the remarkable thing is..."
2:54
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "And this is what gives Tristan..."
2:54
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Tristan and Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod
Richard Wagner
19:05
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "That may be the slowest performance..."
2:25
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "But ultimately..."
1:38
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Poetry has begun to show..."
1:41
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "And when Debussy..."
1:37
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "It's lovely, this dreaming..."
2:35
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "For example, do you remember..."
1:45
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "In fact, the ending of this piece..."
1:17
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Let me show you briefly..."
2:07
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "This new episode that proceeds..."
1:24
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "For instance, hardly have we had time..."
2:29
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Because the scale..."
1:53
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "It's almost exactly what happens..."
1:51
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Literally translated..."
1:35
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "But notice, too, that the example..."
1:34
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Both works have definitive beginnings..."
1:32
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Listen as I play..."
1:51
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Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, l.86
Claude Debussy
10:25
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Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Some crazy modern music..."
1:04
CD 9: Volume Five "The Twentieth Century Crisis" part 1
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Our lecture tonight..."
0:18
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Rapsodie espagnole, m. 54: IV. Feria
Maurice Ravel
6:33
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "What a way to enter the twentieth century..."
1:38
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "But 1908, if the truth to be told..."
1:28
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "These troubling presentiments..."
2:19
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "So, now in 1908..."
2:11
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "This is atonality..."
2:30
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "A charming idea..."
0:28
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The Unanswered Question
Charles Ives
5:23
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Is that luminous final triad..."
2:16
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "I have recently been reading..."
1:59
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "We have already referred to some of those..."
3:02
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "In any case..."
1:57
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "But for all these reasons..."
2:46
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Son of Tristan..."
2:31
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Now you look at those first two bars..."
2:20
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Of course, there are lots..."
1:56
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "It's as though a new covenant..."
1:40
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Trouble is, that the new musical rules..."
2:22
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "The kind of tonal feeling..."
2:53
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Of course, there are those who say..."
1:40
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "It seems somehow inevitable..."
2:17
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Is there possibly the beginning..."
2:47
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "And what about Beethoven's Ninth..."
2:44
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "These are some of the problems..."
2:40
CD 10: Volume Five "The Twentieth Century Crisis" part 2
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Now let's jump ahead..."
2:23
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Let's put it another way..."
2:10
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "First of all, Berg chose a tone row..."
1:54
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "So, all in all..."
0:52
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Violin concerto (excerpt)
Alban Berg
2:23
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Fantastic..."
2:50
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "It comes at a point..."
2:47
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Violin concerto: II. Allegro, ma sempre rubato (excerpt)
Alban Berg
2:53
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "If this particularly demanding lecture..."
1:21
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "If you really have been thinking..."
2:13
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "But while restudying this work..."
2:21
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "The twentieth century..."
1:39
13
Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "What do you do if you know all this..."
2:35
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "It's very strange, how the pieces..."
2:11
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "What exactly was this news..."
1:59
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "We emerge from a cinema..."
1:55
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "As you listen to this finale..."
2:35
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Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "This is Mahler..."
2:41
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Symphony no. 9 in D major: IV. Adagio. Sehr langsam und noch zurückhaltend
Gustav Mahler
23:00
CD 11: Volume Six "The Poetry of Earth" part 1
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "I know what you are thinking..."
1:53
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "What about this..."
1:27
3
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "I am plaguing you with this question..."
1:45
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Of course what he is really talking about..."
2:05
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But it was precisely..."
1:58
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Now I have just used two words..."
1:55
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "In fact, it was Satie, Picasso, and Cocteau..."
2:20
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But our scene..."
1:53
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Even in the most..."
2:03
10
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "For our purposes..."
2:11
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Musicologists are always pointing..."
1:56
12
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But bitonality does not only serve..."
2:20
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Of course, polytonality can and does..."
2:09
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Now what's going on..."
2:21
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "And while you are in that record shop..."
2:15
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Of course, these asymmetries..."
1:53
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Brutal it may be..."
1:32
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Now, remember..."
1:59
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "These are two sets..."
1:59
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Just cast an eye..."
2:44
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Now that page of music..."
2:59
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But the most striking semantic effect..."
1:39
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "This new aesthetic relaxation..."
2:11
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Even some Germans..."
2:06
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "You can see how the transformation..."
1:55
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Chomsky himself gives a classic example..."
2:08
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Very important, the ironic element..."
2:39
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "So, it would seem..."
2:17
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But this neoclassic approach..."
1:11
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "I think this is again a moment..."
2:06
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "It's the essence..."
2:34
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "If this poem were rewritten..."
1:20
CD 12: Volume Six "The Poetry of Earth" part 2
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Why have I digressed..."
1:46
2
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Now can you understand..."
1:37
3
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Untermeyer called this..."
1:42
4
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Of course, with The Waste Land..."
1:17
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But the thing of it all is..."
1:31
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "We are going to hear..."
1:35
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "One has only learnt to get..."
2:45
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Now i propose only because..."
2:23
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Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "This union is possible only because..."
2:57
10
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But what has all this to do with Stravinsky..."
2:21
11
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "And this is the essence..."
2:14
12
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Look: here is a joke..."
2:02
13
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Chilling, shattering, neoclassic..."
1:46
14
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Stravinsky's own aesthetic pronouncements..."
2:03
15
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But of course he was forced..."
1:31
16
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "And now we are finally ready..."
2:36
17
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "And then Mozart appears..."
2:35
18
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But this eclecticism knows no bounds..."
1:45
19
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Now all this I had planned to tell you..."
1:33
20
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "You think that's funny..."
2:43
21
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "How about that..."
2:56
22
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Then came the answer..."
2:41
23
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But why this particular misalliance..."
1:22
24
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "My words are poor..."
1:58
CD 13: Volume Six "The Poetry of Earth" part 3
1
Oedipus Rex: Prologue: "You are about to hear a Latin version of Oedipus the King"
Igor Stravinsky
0:58
2
Oedipus Rex: Act I: "Caedit nos pestis"
Igor Stravinsky
4:05
3
Oedipus Rex: Act I: "Liberi, vos liberabo"
Igor Stravinsky
3:29
4
Oedipus Rex: Act I: "This is Creon, brother-in-law of Oedipus"
Igor Stravinsky
0:26
5
Oedipus Rex: Act I: "Respondit deus"
Igor Stravinsky
6:38
6
Oedipus Rex: Act I:" Oedipus questions the Fountain of Truth"
Igor Stravinsky
2:44
7
Oedipus Rex: Act I: "Dicere non possum"
Igor Stravinsky
5:22
8
Oedipus Rex: Act I: "Gloria!"
Igor Stravinsky
1:11
9
Oedipus Rex: Act II: "The dispute of the princes attracts the attention of Jocasta"
Igor Stravinsky
2:10
10
Oedipus Rex: Act II: "Nonn' erubescite, reges"
Igor Stravinsky
4:25
11
Oedipus Rex: Act II: "Ne probentur oracula"
Igor Stravinsky
3:20
12
Oedipus Rex: Act II: "Ego senem cecici"
Igor Stravinsky
2:07
13
Oedipus Rex: Act II: "The witness to the murder comes out of the shadow"
Igor Stravinsky
0:44
14
Oedipus Rex: Act II: "Adest omniscius pastor"
Igor Stravinsky
4:32
15
Oedipus Rex: Act II: "Nonne monstrum rescituri"
Igor Stravinsky
3:24
16
Oedipus Rex: Act II: "And now you are going to hear that famous monolog..."
Igor Stravinsky
1:38
17
Oedipus Rex: Act II: "Divum Jocastae caput mortuum!"
Igor Stravinsky
3:09
18
Oedipus Rex: Act II: "Ecce! Regem Oedipoda"
Igor Stravinsky
2:46
19
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Va-le-di-co..."
2:06
20
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "During that decade..."
1:46
21
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "It was at this point that I wrote..."
1:43
22
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "What interests me about it..."
2:15
23
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Is it possible..."
1:51
24
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "It's as tough in the period..."
2:52
25
Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "And I believe..."
2:40

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Release credits

Boston Symphony Orchestra
performing orchestra [1-18]
David Evitts
baritone vocals [1-18]
Ezio Flagello
bass vocals [1-18]
Frank Hoffmeister
tenor vocals [1-18]
Harvard Glee Club
choir vocals [1-18]
Henryk Szeryng
violin [5, 8]
John McClure
producer, producer [10.19, 8.21]
Leonard Bernstein
conductor [10.19, 6.12-16, 13.1-18, 8.4, 8.21, 2.13-16, 7.24-27, 9.2], spoken vocals [6.1-11, 1.1-21, 7.1-23, 7.28-31, 10.1-4, 10.6-7, 10.9-18, 4.1-25, 2.1-12, 11.1-32, 13.19-25, 12.1-24, 3.1-24, 8.1-3, 8.5-20, 8.22, 9.1, 9.3-8, 9.10-25, 5.1-32]
Michael Wager
spoken vocals [1-18]
New York Philharmonic
performing orchestra [8.4, 8.21, 9.2, 6.12-16, 7.24-27, 10.19, 2.13-16]
Rafael Kubelík
conductor [5, 8]
René Kollo
tenor vocals [1-18]
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
performing orchestra [5, 8]
Tatiana Troyanos
mezzo-soprano vocals [1-18]
Tom Krause
baritone vocals [1-18]

Issues

L
Leonard Bernstein at Harvard / The Norton Lectures 1973: "The Unanswered Question"
13x CD
2018