Spoleto Backstage
Spoleto Backstage is an English-speaking podcast specialized in the field of classical music and opera. As such, Spoleto Backstage is a podcast selected by soclassiq, like Musical Moments or The Naxos Blog and many others. The oldest episode indexed by soclassiq is dated 2018-05-22. Since then, a total of 23 episodes have been recorded and broadcast by Spoleto Backstage.
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Spoleto Backstage seems to be on pause right now, since no episode has been published for 3 months. The last episode in Spoleto Backstage, "Spoleto Backstage: Beethoven Bonus Round", is dated 2020-07-31.
"On pause" does not mean, however, that Spoleto Backstage will not resume its activity soon, nor that its episodes are less interesting than another more active source.
This editorial activity is slowing down compared to the previous period.
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2020-07-31 09:30:00
Duration (h:m:s): 1:31:05
In this final episode of Spoleto Backstage for 2020, cohosts Geoff Nuttall and Bradley Fuller mark the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth by taking a tour through the German composer’s three stylistic periods — early, middle, and late — with commentary and a listen to representative performances from the past twelve years of the Spoleto Festival chamber music …
2020-07-24 13:35:39
Duration (h:m:s): 51:46
This episode of Spoleto Backstage highlights the music of Johann Sebastian Bach with Spoleto chamber music series performances of two works representative of the German baroque composer’s prolific and wide-ranging output: his Concerto in C minor for violin and oboe, BWV 1060, and his cantata Ich habe genug , BWV 82. Before listening to these works as performed in the …
2020-07-17 09:30:00
Duration (h:m:s): 57:56
This episode of Spoleto Backstage rounds out Geoff Nuttall’s list of top Spoleto Festival chamber performances from the past decade with a 2011 program featuring Franz Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667—better known as the “Trout” Quintet. As Geoff shares with Bradley Fuller in a conversation before the music begins, this sparkling chamber work gets both its nickname …
2020-07-10 09:30:00
Duration (h:m:s): 1:06:44
This episode of Spoleto Backstage highlights one of Geoff Nuttall’s all-time favorite programs from the Spoleto Festival USA Chamber Music Series: the eleventh and final concert from the 2018 season. As Geoff discusses with Bradley Fuller before the music begins, the wide-ranging, variety-packed lineup of this program is emblematic of the chamber series as a whole. To start, the men …
2020-07-04 09:30:00
Duration (h:m:s): 1:27:22
In this episode of Spoleto Backstage , Geoff Nuttall and Bradley Fuller revisit another unforgettable program from the past decade of the Spoleto Festival USA Chamber Music Series. Before moving to the music itself, the two hosts talk about what makes this 2016 concert a top-pick performance. Opening the program are two dazzling violin showpieces by Fritz Kreisler—his Praeludium and …
2020-06-26 14:45:56
Duration (h:m:s): 1:26:35
This episode of Spoleto Backstage showcases a 2012 chamber series program bookended by late Romantic American works. Opening with Arthur Foote’s A Night Piece , the concert also features Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 101 in D Major, “The Clock” (arr. Salomon) before concluding with Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 67. Geoff Nuttall and Bradley Fuller talk about …
2020-06-19 09:30:00
Duration (h:m:s): 1:14:36
This episode of Spoleto Backstage features another of Geoff Nuttall’s favorite programs from the past decade of the Spoleto Festival USA Chamber Music Series. Before listening to the 2018 concert, Geoff and Bradley Fuller discuss the selections, paying special attention to the opening Vivaldi concerto for oboe and violin and emphasizing how the baroque composer’s hundreds of other concertos are …
2020-06-12 09:30:00
Duration (h:m:s): 1:23:13
In this episode of Spoleto Backstage , Geoff Nuttall and Bradley Fuller look back on a concert performed as part of the 2016 Spoleto Festival Chamber Music Series. After discussing what makes it one of the most memorable performances from the past decade of the series, the two enjoy a listen to the program. Andrew Norman’s Garden of Follies comes …
2020-06-05 09:30:00
Duration (h:m:s): 1:36:01
In this episode of Spoleto Backstage , Geoff Nuttall introduces Bradley Fuller to another of the most memorable Spoleto Festival USA chamber music programs from the past decade. This 2016 concert includes moving arias by Handel (with countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo performing), an expressive keyboard sonata by CPE Bach, and César Franck’s intensely passionate Piano Quintet in F minor. Following …
2020-05-29 09:30:00
Duration (h:m:s): 1:31:30
In this episode of Spoleto Backstage , Geoff Nuttall shares with co-host Bradley Fuller about one of his favorite Spoleto Festival USA Chamber Music Series concerts from the past ten years: a 2011 program featuring Osvaldo Golijov’s “Lullaby and Doina” from The Man Who Cried , Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s “The Union: Concert Paraphrase on National Airs,” and Franz Schubert’s String …