Daniel and Isabel Save Classical Music
In this podcast, classical musician and stand-up comedian Isabel Hagen and classical pianist Daniel Anastasio discuss their favorite classical pieces while navigating the creative life. The show features live musical excerpts along with humorous, friendly banter between the two best friends. New episodes are released every Tuesday.
Episodes
Depression and Schubert
Daniel and Isabel talk about depression, the difference between depression and sadness, and whether great artists need to feel an intense emotional state like depression in order to create. Daniel plays the second movement of Schubert's Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960 and they discuss its cathartic power.YouTube for full video episodesFollow Isabel HERE. Follow Daniel HEREFollow the podc
Chopin's Dark Chorale
Daniel and Isabel analyze Chopin's short yet powerful Prelude in C Minor, and Isabel explains her unfortunate association with the piece. They also reference Chopin's 1st and 4th Ballades, Rachmaninoff's Prelude in c-sharp minor, and Francois Couperin's Le Tic Toc Choc. YouTube for full video episodesFollow Isabel HERE. Follow Daniel HEREFollow the podcast everywhere at @savecl
Pleasure in Melancholy
Daniel and Isabel talk about Brahms' Intermezzo op. 119 no. 1, which begins his final set of small works for the piano. They discuss Brahms' letter to Clara Schumann about the opening of the piece, the painful desire of the Romantics, and Brahms' organic writing. We also talk about teaching, and why it's not for Isabel.YouTube for full video episodesFollow Isabel HERE. Follow D
Shostakovich Goes Baroque
Daniel and Isabel dive into Fugue in A Major, op. 87 by Dmitri Shostakovich.YouTube for full video episodesFollow Isabel HERE. Follow Daniel HEREFollow the podcast everywhere at @saveclassicalpod
Chopin's Darkest Prelude
Daniel and Isabel dive into Chopin’s E Minor Prelude (and Isabel joins on a special viola rendition of it), and they briefly touch on Chopin’s E-flat Major Nocturne, Chopin’s A Minor Mazurka, op. 59 no. 1, Earl Wild’s arrangement of Gershwin’s Embraceable You, and the first movement of Bach’s Italian Concerto.YouTube for full video episodesFollow Isabel HERE. Follow Daniel HEREFollow the podcast e
Dr. Gradus
Daniel and Isabel dive into Claude Debussy’s Dr. Gradus ad Parnassum and the first movement of Leoš Janáček’s In The Mists.YouTube for full video episodesFollow Isabel HERE. Follow Daniel HEREFollow the podcast everywhere at @saveclassicalpod
Getting Romantic with Brahms
Daniel and Isabel dive into Brahms' Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 2, and also touch on Brahms’ Piano Trio in B Major and the 3rd movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in E Major, Op. 109.YouTube for full video episodesFollow Isabel HERE. Follow Daniel HEREFollow the podcast everywhere at @saveclassicalpod
Clair de Lune
Daniel and Isabel dive into Debussy's Clair de Lune.YouTube for full video episodesFollow Isabel HERE. Follow Daniel HEREFollow the podcast everywhere at @saveclassicalpod
Couperin and Memory
Daniel and Isabel dive into François Couperin's Les Barricades Mystérieuses, memory, and more.YouTube for full video episodesFollow Isabel HERE. Follow Daniel HEREFollow the podcast everywhere at @saveclassicalpod
Special Chords
Daniel and Isabel dive into Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata and Schubert's A-flat Major Impromptu, and Isabel joins Daniel on viola for some of Brahms' F minor Sonata. Also Daniel cries.YouTube for full video episodesFollow Isabel HERE. Follow Daniel HEREFollow the podcast everywhere at @saveclassicalpod
Scenes from Childhood
Daniel and Isabel dive into Schumann's Kinderszenen ("Scenes from Childhood") and more!YouTube for full video episodesFollow Isabel HERE. Follow Daniel HEREFollow the podcast everywhere at @saveclassicalpod
Funereal Chopin
Daniel and Isabel dive into Chopin's C-sharp minor Nocturne, the Funeral March from Chopin's Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, and more!YouTube for full video episodesFollow Isabel HERE. Follow Daniel HEREFollow the podcast everywhere at @saveclassicalpod
Rethinking Für Elise
Daniel and Isabel dive into two piano repertoire staples, Beethoven's Für Elise and Bach's C Major Prelude from The Well Tempered Clavier. They also touch on Beethoven's piano concerto no. 3, Beethoven's "Pathetique" Sonata, and Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.YouTube for full video episodesFollow Isabel HERE. Follow Daniel HEREFollow the podcast everywhere at @savec
INTRO
COMING SOON! Daniel and Isabel Save Classical Music. Classical musician-turned-stand up comedian Isabel Hagen and classical pianist Daniel Anastasio explore their favorite classical pieces while discussing the creative life. Listen along for musical excerpts paired with banter between two best friends. New episodes every Tuesday!YouTube for full video episodesFollow Isabel HERE. Follow Daniel HERE
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