Fast, Furious, Fortissimo
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
Joshua Weilerstein
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Very often, when I tell people that I’m a classical musician, I am told, “wow, I love classical music! It’s so relaxing!” I think almost all classical musicians have heard that before, and you know what? Sometimes, it’s true! Classical music can be relaxing! But sometimes, and actually pretty often, classical music is NOT relaxing. It is exciting, emotional, passionate, and can make your heart race! Don’t believe me? Today's show is all about proving that to you. I'm going to share with you some of the most thrilling, powerful, and well, some of hte loudest music in the history of classical music. I should say SOME OF, because what we are going to play for you today is absolutely not an exhautive list. If you like what you hear today, there is so much more where that came from. What we’re going to do today is to take you through a kind of musical time machine of fast and furious symphonic music, trying to cover as many different styles and eras of classical music as possible.
NOTE: What will appear on the podcast feed is a shortened version of a full live concert I did with the Aalborg Symphony a few weeks ago. I highly recommend listening to that version as well, which features full length performances of many of the pieces I'm talking about on the show. You can find that here:
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Sticky Notes, the Classical Music Podcast. |
| 0:16.6 | My name is Joshua Wilerstein. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm a conductor and I'm the chief conductor of the Alborg Symphony and the music director |
| 0:21.7 | of the Phoenix Orchestra of Boston. This |
| 0:23.8 | podcast is for anyone who loves classical music, works in the field, or is just |
| 0:28.3 | getting ready to dive in to this amazing world of incredible music. |
| 0:31.7 | Before we get started I want to thank my new Patreon sponsors, John, Michael, Joseph, Chris, Mark, |
| 0:39.2 | Jeremy, Nate, and El Shvetta, and all of my Patreon sponsors for making season 10 possible. |
| 0:46.5 | If you'd like to support the show please head over to patreon.com slash stickynotes |
| 0:50.7 | podcast. |
| 0:52.0 | And if you are a fan of the show, please take a moment to give us a rating or review on |
| 0:55.0 | Apple Podcasts. It is greatly appreciated. |
| 0:58.7 | So I've just returned from a fantastic week with the Berlin Concert House Orchestra. |
| 1:05.0 | We did a program with the Du Boer Jacques New World Symphony, |
| 1:07.8 | Barber's Violin Concerto with the incredible Ning-Fung and the Geton Klein Partita for Strings. It was a very, very special week. The whole family traveled together. It was really, really nice. And what a great orchestra in a beautiful hall. So today's show is a little bit special. Originally it was |
| 1:24.0 | planned to be a broadcast of the live concert that I did with the Alborg |
| 1:28.7 | Symphony entitled Fast Furious Fortissimo going through all of or some of I would say the most |
| 1:36.0 | exciting and most passionate and loudest moments in the history of classical music now |
| 1:41.6 | there were some issues with the rights to broadcast the show |
| 1:44.7 | on my podcast in perpetuity so what I decided to do is to make a podcast-only |
| 1:50.3 | version of the show using different recordings but I really want to encourage you |
| 1:54.6 | to check out the full concert footage which I will link to in both the show notes |
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