The Concert: A Classical Music Podcast
 

Live since 2006, the Gardner Museum's free classical podcast The Concert brings world-class performances from the museum’s Tapestry Room to listeners across the globe. These exclusive live recordings from our regular concert series feature performances by acclaimed master musicians and up-and-coming young artists. A new program is posted every two weeks, so check back often, or receive automatic updates delivered directly to your computer or portable mp3 player with a free subscription.

You are free to share and reproduce these podcasts and pass this great classical music along to your friends and family. The same goes for the individual tracks you’ll find sorted by musician and composer in the Music Library. We only ask that you let people know where you found it, and don’t alter the recording or use it commercially.

To get started, click on a title below to download, subscribe to The Concert with the links on the right, or find out more about listening to podcasts here.

  
Current Programs

Japanese Folding Screen: Scenes from the Tale of Genji (detail), 1677.

Podcast No. 98
From Romantic to Modern (45.15 MB)
Works for solo piano and for voice and string quartet, performed by pianist Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, soprano Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie, and musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Institute.

•Brahms: Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79
•Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10

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A Musical Party (detail), Flemish tapestry, ca. 1585–1600

Podcast No. 97
Baroque Treats (39.71 MB)
Works for flute, violin, and continuo, performed by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

•Telemann: Gulliver Suite in D Major for 2 violins •Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue in D Major for 3 violins and continuo
•Vivaldi: Sonata in D minor for 2 violins and continuo, RV 63,“La Follia”
•Bach: Trio Sonata in C minor for flute, violin, and continuo from The Musical Offering

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Vermeer, The Concert (detail), 1658–60.

Podcast No. 96
Taking a Solo (43.21 MB)
Works for cello and piano duo, and for solo piano, performed by cellist Efe Baltacigil, and pianists Anna Polonsky and Paavali Jumppanen.

•Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1
•Beethoven: Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 31, No. 3, “La Chasse”

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Fra Angelico, Death and Assumption of the Virgin, ca. 1432.

Podcast No. 95
Recycling Tchaikovsky and Dvorák (47.44 MB)
Works for violin and piano duo, and string quintet, performed by violinist Nicholas Kendall, pianist Robert Koenig, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

•Tchaikovsky: Meditation
•Dvorák: String Quintet in G Major, Op. 77

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Portrait of Charles Loeffler (detail), John S. Sargent, 1903

Podcast No. 94
Chausson’s Chamber Concerto (42.23 MB)
Works for solo harp, and for violin, piano, and string quartet performed by harpist Emmanuel Ceysson, violinist Corey Cerovsek, pianist Jeremy Denk, and the Jupiter String Quartet.

•Walter-Küne: Fantasy on Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
•Chausson: Concerto in D Major for violin, piano and string quartet, Op. 2

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Pictured above: Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #1183 (detail), 2005.

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Thanks!
We’d like to thank the following individuals and institutions, whose help and support have made this project possible:

Thanks to the musicians, without whose talent, cooperation, and forward thinking we would not have been able to create this podcast.

Thanks to the Berkman Center for their legal expertise in the complex and fascinating world of digital intellectual property.
 

Thanks to Liberated Syndication for hosting our podcast.


Recording Engineer: Tom Stephenson of Emmanuel Recording

 

Hear it Live!
Enjoy classical music in the museum every Sunday, September through May, at our weekly concert series, where all the podcasts are recorded. You can buy tickets or view schedules online.


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