Behind the Music
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Explore the origins and stories behind the music with Boston Symphony Orchestra's Video Podcast Series.
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Behind the Music: Dvorak's Symphony No. 9
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Behind the Music: Stravinsky's "Petrushka"
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Behind the Music: Shostakovich's Symphony No. 15
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Behind the Music: Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 5
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Behind the Music: Ginastera's Piano Concerto No. 1
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Behind the Music: Schumann's Symphony No. 1 "Spring"
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Behind the Music: Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring"
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Behind the Music: Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring"
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Behind the Music: Schumann's Symphony No. 1, "Spring"
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Behind the Music: Ellington's "A Tone Parallel to Harlem"
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Behind the Music: Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra"
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Behind the Music: Dvořák's "Stabat Mater"
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Behind the Music: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4
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Behind the Music: Debussy's "Nocturnes"
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Behind the Music: Bruckner's Symphony No. 9
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Behind the Music: Copland's Symphony No. 3
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Behind the Music: Janáček's Sinfonietta
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Behind the Music: Sibelius' Symphony No. 7
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Behind the Music: Brahms' Symphony No. 1
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Behind the Music: Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 5
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Behind the Music: Dvorak's Symphony No. 8
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Behind the Music: Bach's "Christmas Oratorio"
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Behind the Music: Mahler's Symphony No. 5
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Behind the Music: Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1
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Behind the Music: Elgar's "Enigma" Variations
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Behind the Music: Beethoven's Symphony No. 5
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Behind the Music: Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet
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Behind the Music: Mahler’s Symphony No. 2
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Behind the Music: Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra
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Behind the Music: Bernstein's "Fancy Free"
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Behind the Music: Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra
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Behind the Music: Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4
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Behind the Music: Mahler's Symphony No. 3
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Behind the Music: Mahler's Symphony No. 1
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Behind the Music: Sibelius' Symphony No. 2
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Behind the Music: Stravinsky's "The Firebird" (Complete)
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Behind the Music: Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5
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Behind the Music: Brahms's Symphony No. 3
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Behind the Music: Haydn's "Lord Nelson Mass"
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Behind the Music: Sibelius's Symphony No. 5
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Behind the Music: Bernstein's West Side Story
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Behind the Music: Puccini's "La boheme"
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Behind the Music: Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5
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Behind the Music: Schumann's Symphony No. 3
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Behind the Music: Mozart's Symphony No. 41
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Behind the Music: Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4
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Behind the Music: "On the Town"
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Behind the Music: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5
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Behind the Music: Mozart's Symphony No. 40
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Behind the Music: Brahms' Symphony No. 2
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Behind the Music: Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5
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Behind the Music: Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1
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Behind the Music: Wagner's Tristan & Isolde
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Behind the Music: Strauss's "Don Quixote"
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Behind the Music: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6
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Behind the Music: Shostakovich Symphony No. 4
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Behind the Music: Sibelius' "En Saga"
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Behind the Music: Mozart's Symphony No. 41
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Behind the Music: Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloé" (complete)
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Behind the Music: Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3, "Scottish"
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Behind the Music: Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22
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Behind the Music: Dvorak's Symphony No. 9
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Behind the Music: Stravinsky's "Petrushka"
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Behind the Music: Strauss's "Till Eulenspiegel"
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Behind the Music: Shostakovich's Symphony No. 15
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Behind the Music: Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3
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Behind the Music: Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 19 in F, K.459
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Behind the Music: Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 5
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Behind the Music: Ginastera's Piano Concerto No. 1
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Behind the Music: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4
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Behind the Music: Puccini's "Suor Angelica"
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Behind the Music: Debussy' Nocturnes
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Behind the Music: Dvorak's "Stabat Mater"
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Behind the Music: Renee Fleming sings Strauss
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Behind the Music: Video Preview Ellington's "A Tone Parallel to Harlem (Harlem Suite)"
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Behind the Music: Schumann's Piano Concerto
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Behind the Music: Bruckner's Symphony No. 9
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Behind the Music: Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 1
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Behind the Music: Copland's Symphony No. 3
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Behind the Music: Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
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Behind the Music: Janacek's Sinfonietta
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Behind the Music: Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24
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Behind the Music: Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1
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Behind the Music: Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 5
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Behind the Music: Dvorak's Symphony No. 8
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Behind the Music: Brahms' Symphony No 1
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Behind the Music: Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker"
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Behind the Music: Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1
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Behind the Music: Haydn's Symphony No. 93
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Behind the Music: Elgar's "Enigma" Variations
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Behind the Music: Beethoven's Symphony No. 5
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Behind the Music: Beethoven's Symphony No. 4
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Behind the Music: Bach's Christmas Oratorio
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Behind the Music: Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14
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Behind the Music: Beethoven's Symphony No. 8
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Behind the Music: Mahler's Symphony No. 3
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Behind the Music: Stravinsky's "The Firebird"
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Behind the Music: Beethoven's Symphony No. 5
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Behind the Music: Bruckner's Symphony No. 4
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Behind the Music: Berlioz's "The Damnation of Faust"
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Behind the Music: Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3
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Behind the Music: Grieg's "Peer Gynt"
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Behind the Music: Schumann's Symphony No. 1
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Behind the Music: Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11 "The Year 1905"
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Behind the Music: Mahler's Symphony No. 1
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Behind the Music: Bernstein's "West Side Story"
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Behind the Music: Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2
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Behind the Music: Beethoven Symphony Number 9
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Behind the Music: STRAUSS - "An Alpine Symphony"
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Behind the Music: BRAHMS - Symphony No. 2
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Behind the Music: Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring"
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Behind the Music: Schubert's Symphony in C, "The Great"
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Behind the Music: Beethoven's 7th Symphony
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Behind the Music: Schumann Symphony No. 2
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Behind the Music: Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3
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Behind the Music: Mendelssohn's Incidental Music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
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Behind the Music: Walton's Belshazzar's Feast
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Behind the Music: BERLIOZ "Te Deum"
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Behind the Music: DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"
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Behind the Music: TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4
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Behind the Music: TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2, Little Russian
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Behind the Music: BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor
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Behind the Music: Wagner's "Das Rheingold"
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Behind the Music: Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21
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Behind the Music: Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique"
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Behind the Music: Mahler 4
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Behind the Music: Mahler 2
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Behind the Music: Mahler Symphony No. 4
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Behind the Music: Shostakovich's 6th Symphony
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Behind the Music: Mozart Requiem
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Behind the Music: Bruckner's 6th Symphony
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Behind the Music: LALO - Symphonie espagnole, for violin and orchestra
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Behind the Music: Beethoven 6th Symphony "Pastoral"
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Behind the Music: Beethoven Seventh Symphony
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Behind the Music: Busoni's Piano Concerto
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Behind the Music: Shostakovich's Symphony No 7 "Leningrad"
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Boston Pops: The Red Sox Album
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Behind the Music: Copland's "Appalachian Spring" - Boston Symphony
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Behind the Music: Conversation with Charles Dutoit on Stravinsky - Boston Symphony
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Behind the Music: Dvořák's Cello Concerto - Boston Symphony
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Behind the Music: Brahms Symphony No. 4
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Behind the Music: Charles Ives Biography
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Behind the Music: Charles Ives Historical Context
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Behind the Music: Charles Ives Symphony No. 4 Analysis
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Behind the Music: Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 - Boston Symphony
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