Pizzicato Ost

Leo Jivetsky
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Pizzicato Ost

Have you ever said something like “I would love to get into classical music, but I don’t know where to start”? Or “I always listen to the same old recordings I know”? Well the Pizzicato Ost is the place for you. Leo Jivetsky, former Artistic Administrator of the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow, and Program director of the Russian National Orchestra shares his insights on music he is passionate about.

  1. 25/03/2023

    Stravinsky’s Les Noces

    A coffin on a gondola, a ballet dancer with no pants on, an anti-patriarchy show, a royal scandal and a Russian peasant wedding ceremony - this and more, as well as tons of great music in our longest episode so far. And here is a list of the people mentioned in the episode: Adam, Adolphe Beecham, Thomas Bonynge, Richard Boulez, Pierre Chaliapin, Feodor Ivanovich Currentzis, Teodor Debussy, Claude Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich de Falla, Manuel Fokine, Michel (Mikhail Mikhailovich) Gergiev, Valery Abisalovich Gershwin, Ira Goncharova, Natalia Sergeevna Jurowski, Vladimir Mikhailovich Karsavina, Tamara Platonovna Larionov, Mikhail Fyodorovich Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich Nezet-Seguin, Yannick Nijinsky, Vatslav Fomich Nijinskaya, Bronislava Fominichna Nikisch, Arthur Ozawa, Seiji Pavlova, Anna Pavlovna Poulenc, Francis Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeevich Ravel, Maurice Reiner, Fritz Respighi, Ottorino Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Andreevich Rubinstein, Ida Lvovna Satie, Erik Strauss, Richard Stravinsky, Igor Fydorovich Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tcherepnin, Nikolai Nikolayevich Weil, Kurt

    1h 42m

  2. 11/03/2023

    Mily Balakirev’s oriental fantasy ”Islamey”

    The world's most difficult solo piano piece and its nationalist antisemitic author are the hot topic of this episode. Is it all that simple though?..

    1h 14m

  3. 03/03/2023

    Season 2 introduction

    After 2 years of silence, Pizzicato Ost returns with a second season. This introduction episode presents the concept and the idea of the new season.

    17 min

  4. 20/03/2021

    Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an exhibition" (pt. 2)

    We continue talking about the great piano suite, where babbling French ladies mix with an even old witch, and a gate is wearing a helmet... https://spoti.fi/2P94ffW

    55 min

  5. 06/03/2021

    Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an exhibition" (pt. 1)

    The most orchestral of all piano works, a piece that has inspired so many great musicians, Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an exhibition" is our topic for two episodes. Composed as an homage to the composer's close friend, artist Victor Hartmann, the work brings his paintings and sketches to life. Russian, Polish, French, Jewish motifs are all mixed in this suite for piano solo. The recording used in this show is this one: https://spoti.fi/3rm5reb

    1h 19m

  6. 20/02/2021

    Beethoven's Große Sonate für Hammerklavier b-flat major, op. 106

    "Here you have a sonata that will be a hard nut to crack; pianists will grit their teeth from it for another 50 years". 200 years later, pianists still grit their teeth from Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata, and it stays quite a hard nut to crack! A few recordings to check out: https://spoti.fi/3k5hUQy https://spoti.fi/2OLydX5 (part 6) https://spoti.fi/2NOlYsA

    1h 7m

  7. 13/02/2021

    Georges Bizet: Orchestral suites played by Orchestre de la Bastille with Myung-Whun Chung

    Bizet's bright and dazzling suites for orchestra (Carmen, L'Arlesienne, and Jeux d'enfants) are full of energy, the spirit of Provence and Spain. Here, they are played by the Orchestre de la Bastille (orchestra of the Paris opera) with their chief conductor at the time, Myung-Whun Chung.   We tell about the circumstances when the works were created, in the last years of the composer's life, and also mention Gounod, Liszt, Lully, Berlioz, and many other great names. A short review of the scandal surrounding the opening of the Opera Bastille in 1989 is also part of this episode. https://spoti.fi/2ZfNDoK

    1h 10m

  8. 06/02/2021

    Robert Schumann's Phantasiestücke (fantasy pieces) op. 12

    One of Schumann's intimate and diverse piano cycles "Phantasiestücke" involves emotional states of his imaginary characters Florestan and Eusebius, and has appeared as a means of provoking jealousy. Recordings recommended in the end of the episode: https://spoti.fi/3rqNydN https://spoti.fi/3aDN0KS https://spoti.fi/3cZ6a0H

    1h 4m
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Have you ever said something like “I would love to get into classical music, but I don’t know where to start”? Or “I always listen to the same old recordings I know”? Well the Pizzicato Ost is the place for you. Leo Jivetsky, former Artistic Administrator of the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow, and Program director of the Russian National Orchestra shares his insights on music he is passionate about.

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  • Creator
    Leo Jivetsky
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2023
  • Episodes
    18
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
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