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Inside Music with George Marriner Maull: A Midwinter Pastorale. Listen from anywhere.

A Midwinter Pastorale

Host George Marriner Maull looks to warmer weather as he guides listeners in the unusual 5th Movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, the only one of Beethoven’s symphonies that contains…

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Discover Vivaldi Winter Sign up for your free listening guide and bonus material

Discover Winter from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

Free Listening Guide Listening Guides are visual ‘roadmaps’ of classical pieces for ‘do-it-yourself’ listening lessons, using YouTube recordings recommended by Maestro Maull. The Guide highlights specific musical details to notice…

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Radio Show Inside Music: Adios Nonino by Astor Piazzolla

Adios Nonino

Argentine tango composer and bandoneon virtuoso Ástor Piazzolla revolutionized traditional tango into a new style called nuevo tango.  He wrote this touching work in about thirty minutes while on tour…

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Inside Music radio show episode: March to the Scaffold, the fourth movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony; stream it anywhere

March to the Scaffold!

Host George Marriner Maull will dive into what some historians believe to be a hallucinogenic musical excursion from the mind of French composer Louis-Hector Berlioz.  March To The Scaffold, the fourth…

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Inside Music radio show episode: Anyone for a Drink?

Anyone for a Drink?

The raucous movement When We Are In The Tavern from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is the focus of this episode. Maestro Maull explores both the text and music of this…

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Inside Music radio show episode: The World of Unison; listen from anywhere on WWFM The Classical Network

The World of Unison

We’ve all experienced those uncanny and sometimes humorous moments in life when two people answer the same question with the exact same answer at exactly the same time. When this…

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This has been an incredible series. I could take in SO much more than I could at the beginning ones. You have really trained my ears!!! I have been enjoying classical music for more than 60 years (as a child my parents played classical music at dinner and we guessed the composer) but I NEVER knew how to listen before!

— Attendee of NJPAC Classical Conversations with Maestro Maull