The Next Track

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Latest Episodes

Episode #184 - TJ Connelly, Boston Sports DJ
May 29, 2020

TJ Connelly is a sports DJ: he provides "scores" for live sporting events, such as baseball, football, and hockey games. Since the lockdown, he's been out of work, and he has been focusing his attention on Uncertain Times, a daily streaming radio show. We

Episode #183 - Composer and Pianist Timo Andres on Concertizing at Home
May 22, 2020

Timo Andres is a young composer and pianist, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2016. We discuss his music, and how he missed his first solo recital at Carnegie Hall du to the coronavirus lockdown, and decided to make home videos of all the works to pres

Episode #182 - Oliver Craske on His Biography of Ravi Shankar, Indian Sun
May 15, 2020

Oliver Craske has just published the first biography of the legendary Indian musician Ravi Shankar. Craske knew and worked with Shankar near the end of his life, and carried out extensive research to tell the tale of the man who brought Indian music to th

Episode #181 - Classical Music Critic Anne Midgette
May 08, 2020

Anne Midgette resigned as classical music critic for the Washington Post a few months ago, but she is well placed to discuss the dangers facing live performances of classical music in The After. And she tells us about the historical novel she's writing ab

Episode #180 - Harpsichordist and Conductor Richard Egarr
May 01, 2020

We talk with harpsichordist, conductor, and "general music addict" Richard Egarr, about original performance practice in early music. Help support The Next Track by making regular donations via Patreon. We're ad-free and self-sustaining so your support

Episode #179 - Pianist Marc-André Hamelin
April 24, 2020

We talk with pianist Marc-André Hamelin, whose repertoire, in more than 60 recordings, covers many little-known composers, as well as a number of twentieth-century works, by composers such as Ives, Rzewski, and Feldman. Help support The Next Track by ma

Episode #178 - Lieder and Opera Singer Ian Bostridge
April 17, 2020

We talk with Ian Bostridge, Kirk's second-favorite lieder singer, about life in lockdown, and about Schubert's Winterreise, the song cycle that Bostridge is best known for, through his many performances, recordings, films, and a book he wrote about it.

Episode #177 - Author Michael Connelly on Music in the Harry Bosch Novels and TV Series
April 14, 2020

Michael Connelly writes crime fiction, and his character Harry Bosch loves jazz. We talk with Michael about how he decided what music Bosch liked, and how he uses music in the novels and TV series. *Help support The Next Track by making regular donations

Episode #176 - How to Stream Music From Your Home
April 10, 2020

A lot of musicians, suddenly faced with no opportunities for public performance, are opting to stream live from their homes. Andy Doe joins us to discuss what it means for all the musicians to have to build streaming studios in their homes from scratch, a

Episode #175 - Violinist Alina Ibragimova
April 07, 2020

We chat with violinist Alina Ibragimova, who is taking advantage of the lockdown to learn the Paganini caprices in her home in London.