"Chasing Chopin," with Annik LaFarge
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
Joshua Weilerstein
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week I had the pleasure of speaking with Annik Lafarge, author of "Chasing Chopin," a book being released Tomorrow, August 11th, wherever books are sold. This is really a wonderful book and you'll hear in this interview all of Annik's abiding enthusiasm about Chopin which comes through so beautifully in the book. We talk about Chopin's pianos, Chopin as a symbol of Poland, the famous Funeral March, Georges Sand, and traveling to places that Chopin lived and worked. In essence, this is an immersion into Chopin and his music, and I'm sure you'll enjoy this fascinating interview - Chopin's debut on Sticky Notes!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm |
| 0:02.0 | I'm a conductor and I'm the artistic |
| 0:13.9 | director of the Lozan Chamber Orchestra in Lausanne Switzerland. This |
| 0:17.2 | podcast is for anyone who loves classical music, works in the field, or is just |
| 0:21.2 | getting ready to dive in to this amazing world of |
| 0:23.8 | incredible music. Before we get started I want to thank my new Patreon sponsors |
| 0:27.6 | Jim, Tom, Elizabeth, Dan, and all of my other Patreon sponsors for making season six possible. |
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| 0:47.0 | appreciated. So just a quick note about seasons 1 through 5 before we start today. I recently made the decision to pull |
| 0:54.8 | down most of the episodes from the first five seasons in order to basically re-record them. |
| 1:00.0 | I've received a steady string of emails over the years about how the audio quality of those |
| 1:04.2 | first 75 to 100 episodes could use a little bit of work, and I thought this would be a good time |
| 1:09.0 | to get started on that project of redoing those episodes. |
| 1:12.3 | So over the next month I'll be getting into a studio to really make those |
| 1:16.1 | episodes as high quality as possible in terms of their audio content. I understand that many of you were |
| 1:21.1 | working your way through the past archive so I'm sorry |
| 1:23.9 | that these episodes won't be available for a while but trust me I think it will be worth the |
| 1:28.4 | weight. Thank you for your patience and of course for listening so |
| 1:31.8 | loyally to the podcast and now let me just briefly |
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