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Pizzicato Ost

Leo Jivetsky

Music

Frequency: 1 episode/50d. Total Eps: 18

Have you ever heard yourself say something like “I really like classical music, but I don’t know where to start”? Leo Jivetsky, former Artistic Administrator of Moscows Bolshoi theatre and Program director of the Russian National Orchestra shares his insights on the music he is very passionate about.

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🇩🇪 Germany - Music History
06/05/2026
#91
🇩🇪 Germany - Music History
05/05/2026
#83
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04/05/2026
#72
🇩🇪 Germany - Music History
03/05/2026
#55
🇩🇪 Germany - Music History
02/05/2026
#42
🇨🇦 Canada - Music History
24/02/2026
#83
🇨🇦 Canada - Music History
29/10/2025
#69
🇨🇦 Canada - Music History
29/05/2025
#92
🇨🇦 Canada - Music History
28/05/2025
#79
🇨🇦 Canada - Music History
27/05/2025
#68

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Stravinsky’s Les Noces

Season 2 · Episode 2

Saturday, March 25, 2023 • Duration 01:41:33

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

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Mily Balakirev’s oriental fantasy ”Islamey”

Season 2 · Episode 1

Saturday, March 11, 2023 • Duration 01:14:27

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?..

Season 2 introduction

Season 2

Friday, March 3, 2023 • Duration 16:50

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.

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

Season 1 · Episode 15

Saturday, March 20, 2021 • Duration 54:51

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

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

Season 1 · Episode 14

Saturday, March 6, 2021 • Duration 01:19:14

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

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

Season 1 · Episode 13

Saturday, February 20, 2021 • Duration 01:06:46

"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

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

Season 1 · Episode 12

Saturday, February 13, 2021 • Duration 01:09:32

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

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

Season 1 · Episode 11

Saturday, February 6, 2021 • Duration 01:04:11

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

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Rostropovich and Britten play Schubert, Schumann and Debussy

Season 1 · Episode 10

Saturday, January 30, 2021 • Duration 01:07:35

The great musical friendship between two legendary 20th century musicians, composer and pianist Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007), has enriched the world with some fine examples of music. We are also lucky to have this wonderful recording, showing the joy of music making by these two brilliant men.

https://spoti.fi/36sVROi

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Ferenc Liszt's symphonic poem Mazeppa S. 100

Season 1 · Episode 9

Saturday, January 23, 2021 • Duration 01:32:12

Today we talk about how a Polish man turned Ukrainian military leader has inspired great artists for great works. We discuss the appearance of the symphonic poem as a genre, and one of its founders Ferenc Liszt. Along the way, we will also mention Pushkin, Mendelssohn, Weber, and many more great names.

Victor Hugo's poem Mazeppa:

https://bit.ly/3o91cjF

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