Pagani Parle Musique
the podcast
Dominique Pagani’s podcast, released weekly in spring and summer 2022: Mozart, Mulligan, Tchaikovsky, from Bach to the Pygmies, John Lewis, Beethoven, Bartók, Wagner, Nietzsche, Schubert.
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Pagani Parle Musique • Introduction to the podcast
What can we expect from speaking about music, and why deprive young people of music they are being denied?
- 02

POLYMORPHOUSLY PERVERSE MOZART • Pagani Parle Musique
How does Mozart's music unite libertinism and generosity, comedy and true emotion, gaiety and melancholy?
- 03

FREE GOLD FOR EVERYONE - MULLIGAN • Pagani Parle Musique
How should one listen to a baritone saxophone solo against a big band, using the landmarks of jazz history and the range of the instruments?
- 04

TCHAIKOVSKY - FROM THE STEPPES TO THE MIDWEST • Pagani Parle Musique
What is a concerto, and what does the slow movement of Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 reveal about Russian music?
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FROM BACH TO THE PYGMIES • Pagani Parle Musique
Do the common divisions between tonal and modal music, learned and popular, classical and jazz hold up to scrutiny?
- 06

JOHN LEWIS - CLASSICAL OR JAZZ? • Pagani Parle Musique
Does John Lewis's music belong to classical or to jazz, and is jazz not the true classical music of the twentieth century?
- 07

TIPSY BEETHOVEN! • Pagani Parle Musique
How does the scherzo of Beethoven's "Archduke" Trio unite popular and learned music?
- 08

BARTÓK - THE UNHEARD-OF SOUND • Pagani Parle Musique
By what paths does contemporary classical music become avant-garde, and how does Bartók renew it through popular music?
- 09

WAGNER - THE TRUTH OF PURE MUSIC • Pagani Parle Musique
What does music say when it says nothing, and how does instrumental music express what words dare not say?
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NIETZSCHE - NO PITY FOR WAGNER • Pagani Parle Musique
Why does Nietzsche, after condemning Parsifal as a Christian betrayal of the Greek ideal, recognize in its music the truth he had refused?
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SCHUBERT - THE DIVINE CAPTIVES • Pagani Parle Musique
How does music enter into time only to leave it, bringing back the past to the point of touching a kind of eternity?