Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

Interviews and explorations of classical music across all eras and styles AI summary

Joshua Weilerstein Visit website › Music · EN · 301 episodes · latest 2026-10-27

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Sticky Notes is a classical music podcast for everyone, whether you are just getting interested in classical music for the first time, or if you've been listening to it and loving it all your life. Interviews with great artists, in depth looks at pieces in the repertoire, and both basic and deep dives into every era of music. Classical music is absolutely for everyone, so let's start listening! Note - Seasons 1-5 will be returning over the next year. They have been taken down in order to be re-recorded in improved sound quality!

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Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 (Live with the Aalborg Symphony)

2026-10-27 · 1 hr 5 min · Season 10, episode 296

Rachmaninoff's relationship with the symphony as a genre was famously complicated. The catastrophic premiere of his First Symphony is legendary: a badly prepared orchestra, a possibly drunk conductor, and critics who…
Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 (The One With the Funeral March)

2026-10-15 · 53 min · Season 10, episode 295

When the great pianist and composer Frederic Chopin decided to write a piano sonata in 1837, fashions had turned against the genre itself. Perhaps it was a feeling that Beethoven had essentially "finished" the genre, or…
Gerald Finzi: Dies Natalis

2026-10-01 · 52 min · Season 10, episode 294

As I've often said, I love doing Patreon-sponsored episodes in part because they allow me to discover music I might never have encountered otherwise. Today's episode is one of those, because the truth is that before I…
Shostakovich Symphony No. 6

2026-09-17 · 1 hr 3 min · Season 10, episode 293

Dmitri Shostakovich: "I have set myself a task fraught with tremendous responsibility, to express in sound the immortal image of Lenin as a great son of the Russian people and as a leader of the masses. I have received…
Grieg: Peer Gynt

2026-09-03 · 1 hr 8 min · Season 10, episode 292

Grieg's Peer Gynt suites are among the best-known and best-loved works of classical music in the world. They are practically embedded into popular culture, being used in a dizzying number of cartoons, advertisements,…
Mozart Clarinet Concerto

2026-08-20 · 52 min · Season 10, episode 291

When it comes to a piece like the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, a few words or phrases regularly come up: the concerto is described as "mellow" or Mozart's "swan song," but most often it is described as "perfect." Such a…
Bohuslav Martinu Symphony No. 1

2026-08-06 · 1 hr 2 min · Season 11, episode 290

It took a lot to make the composer and critic Virgil Thomson happy. He was famous for savaging new works he didn't like, and the truth is, he didn't like very many new works at all. One exception was Bohuslav Martinů's…
Scriabin Poem of Ecstasy

2026-07-23 · 51 min · Season 11, episode 289

Thence the universe resounds With a joyful cry I AM. These are the final lines of Alexander Scriabin's epic Poem of Ecstasy, a 300-line poem that takes nearly 10 minutes to read aloud and is one of the most surreal…
Sibelius Tapiola

2026-07-10 · 47 min · Season 11, episode 288

Ancient, mysterious, brooding savage dreams; Within them dwells the Forest's mighty God, And wood-sprites in the gloom weave magic secrets. These lines are affixed to the first page of Sibelius' tone poem Tapiola, a…
Arthur Honneger, Symphony No. 3, "Liturgique"

2026-06-25 · 53 min · Season 11, episode 287

In the aftermath of World War II, the Swiss composer Arthur Honegger, who had been living in occupied Paris throughout the war, wrote a new symphony entitled "Liturgical." He wrote an extended commentary on the piece,…

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Oldest episode in feed: 03/2017 · over 9 years
Typical length: 53 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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