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Mar. 14, 2024 David Dalle 30 for 30 with the double-reeds of Ustad Bismillah Khan and The Master Musicians of Jajouka! Also, just released Utsav Lal!
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Mar. 7, 2024 David Dalle Iranian singer Maliheh Moradi's "Our Sorrow" which addresses the injustice women face in Iran today. Sarathy Korwar "Live in Mumbai".
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Feb. 29, 2024 David Dalle Black History Month bonus Leap Day show: Florence Price Encore; part three of Burkinabé musician Baba Commandant. 30 for 30 with Julius Eastman.
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Feb. 22, 2024 David Dalle Black History Month: the Symphonies of Florence Price; When the sun goes out-music of unbearable beauty and spirituality.
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Feb. 15, 2024 David Dalle Black History Month: the symphonies of Florence Price; part two of Burkinabé musician Baba Commandant.
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Feb. 8, 2024 David Dalle Black History Month: the symphonies of Florence Price; new music from Mali; African Cup of Nations finalists.
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Feb. 1, 2024 David Dalle Black History Month with the first of a three part look at Burkinabé musician Baba Commandant. 30 for 30 with Doudou N'Diaye Rose "Djabote".
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Jan. 25, 2024 David Dalle Silent Tears - The Last Yiddish Tango; Taraf Syriana, and more!
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Jan. 18, 2024 David Dalle Yiddish Glory, lost Jewish songs of WWII, with guest Professor Anna Shternshis. Farewell to Rashid Khan.
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Jan. 11, 2024 David Dalle In the Throes of Love, Sufi music from Sindh and Punjab, Bach
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Jan. 4, 2024 David Dalle 30 for 30. Celebrating my 30th year on CKCU with 30 of my most significant albums.
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Dec. 28, 2023 David Dalle My favourites from 2023.
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Dec. 21, 2023 David Dalle Winter Solstice: A journey from darkness to light. Bach's final word and Busoni's answer.
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Dec. 14, 2023 David Dalle Subduing The Silence, a new experimental Chinese-Canadian jazz album by vocalist and composer Ruiqi Wang; Igor Levit's latest piano album and more
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Dec. 7, 2023 David Dalle A seasonal suite--from my own eclectic perspective.
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Nov. 30, 2023 David Dalle An Auditory Survey of the Last Days of the Holocene; Canadian multiculturalism at its best with Constantinople and Afarin Mansouri.
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Nov. 23, 2023 David Dalle Afro-Cuban violins, drums, and voice live in Ottawa! Hailu Mergia Ethio-jazz live at Pioneer Works!
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Nov. 16, 2023 David Dalle post-Funding drive deep dive into two new albums with Ottawa's Atlantis Jazz Ensemble and from the Rembrandt Jazz Trio with Persian singer Mohammad Motamedi.
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Nov. 9, 2023 David Dalle FUNDING DRIVE TOO, music from all over the world
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Nov. 2, 2023 David Dalle FUNDING DRIVE
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Oct. 26, 2023 David Dalle My favourite piece of music. In Ottawa!
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Oct. 19, 2023 David Dalle Always side with the child over the gun. Music from Iranian, Moroccan, Hassidic Jews; Hamza El Din and Pharoah Sanders at their most spiritual.
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Oct. 12, 2023 David Dalle Music from the shadows: Kamancello, Shahram Nazeri, Jacob Cooper and the String Orchestra of Brooklyn.
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Oct. 5, 2023 David Dalle Guest Galeet Dardashti joins me to speak about her new album "Monajat" which explores her Persian-Jewish background.
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Sep. 28, 2023 David Dalle Playing from a big stack of vinyl; African, South American, Kayhan Kalhor and Toumani Diabate, J Jazz and more.
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Sep. 21, 2023 David Dalle McCoy Tyner at his 70's finest; African funk and grooves; Bach and Vivaldi and strings.
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Sep. 14, 2023 David Dalle Keith Jarrett, Torino, October 28, 1996; Libya and Morocco.
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Sep. 7, 2023 David Dalle Farewell to Gloria Coates; Anna Thorvaldsdottir's "Aion"; Orchestra Baobab; Arooj Aftab and Vijay Iyer
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Aug. 31, 2023 David Dalle A Turkish lament against war; Mevlevi Sufis; Kudsi Erguner
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Aug. 24, 2023 David Dalle Mohammad Reza Shajarian performs Dastgah Chahargah; piano, gospel, jazz.
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Aug. 17, 2023 David Dalle Nusrat, just Nusrat
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Aug. 10, 2023 David Dalle New music from Derrick Skye; setar and kamancha with Hamid Motebassem and Imanyar Hasanov.
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Aug. 3, 2023 David Dalle Women's World Cup, music from the knockout nations.
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Jul. 27, 2023 David Dalle Finnish and Icelandic composers Kaija Saariaho and Anna Thorvaldsdottir; Haitian music; Andre Watts and Sinead O'Connor.
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Jul. 20, 2023 David Dalle Roma brass; Gnawa music; Constantinople at the Chamberfest
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Jul. 13, 2023 David Dalle New compilation with the unique Ethiopian pianist Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru. Another side of Strut Record's first release. Obscure pianist Ervin Nyiregyházi and Liszt.
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Jul. 6, 2023 David Dalle Real World's reissue series "Africa Sessions at Real World". Taj Mahal at the Savoy. Improvised electronic dance music from Sudan. More Pharoah Sanders spiritual 60's music.
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Jun. 29, 2023 David Dalle Lubomyr Melnyk's The Sacred Thousand
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Jun. 22, 2023 David Dalle A dream come true, Kayhan Kalhor and Toumani Diabaté! 24 years of Strut records, the Jazz Festival and the Sun Ra Arkestra.
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Jun. 15, 2023 David Dalle Reflecting on my European journey, the Holocaust, the Mendelssohn's, Wave-Gotik-Treffen, the Cotswolds, Mali in London
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Jun. 8, 2023 David Dalle It's All Sufi To Me
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Jun. 1, 2023 David Dalle In Norway
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May. 25, 2023 David Dalle In Leipzig Part II
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May. 18, 2023 David Dalle In Leipzig Part I
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May. 11, 2023 David Dalle Frank Horvat joins me to discuss his recent albums; Igor Levit, Leipzig, and his Tristan program
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May. 4, 2023 David Dalle Music to heat up a cold and dreary day! From Puerto Rico, Morocco, Iran, Sudan, Pakistan and more
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Apr. 27, 2023 David Dalle Mourn for Sudan.
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Apr. 20, 2023 David Dalle Farewell to jazz giant Ahmad Jamal; Cesar Franck's only symphony; new music from Puerto Rico and elsewhere.
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Apr. 13, 2023 David Dalle Girma Yifreshewa music for piano quintet; Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin; Broken Branches, and Jazz
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Apr. 6, 2023 David Dalle Passion music... and music for Passover. Farewell to Ethiopian pianist Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, and a warm Ottawa welcome to Ethiopian pianist Girma Yifrashewa.
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Mar. 30, 2023 David Dalle Central Asia in concert I: Uzbekistan's Yulduz Turdieva; new Jazz releases
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Mar. 23, 2023 David Dalle Unreleased Ali Farka Touré; the latest Analog Africa's Limited Dance Edition with a reissue of an extremely rare Nigerian lp by The Good Samaritans; Mahler's 5th with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and its new director Rafael Payare.
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Mar. 16, 2023 David Dalle Upcoming new albums including a fantastic quartet: Ballaké Sissoko, Vincent Segal, Vincent Peirani, Émile Parisien, and another album with South African duo Msaki and Tubatsi Mpho Moloi. My next listening session with my dad, Astor Piazzolla in NYC.
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Mar. 9, 2023 David Dalle Farewell to my father, René Dalle
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Mar. 2, 2023 David Dalle Kyiv Eternal: Reflections on this past year of suffering, resilience, and courage in Ukraine with composer Oleh Shpudeiko and his love letter for Kyiv, using electronics and sounds of city life recorded in Kyiv. Also DakhaBrakha and Lubomyr Melnyk.
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Feb. 23, 2023 David Dalle Black History Month. Cecil Taylor in concert part III: Cecil Taylor and Tony Oxley in Berlin; one of this final outings. Music of Julius Eastman.
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Feb. 16, 2023 David Dalle Black History Month. Cecil Taylor in concert part II: Worlds colliding, Cecil Taylor & Mary Lou Williams together.
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Feb. 9, 2023 David Dalle Black History Month. Cecil Taylor in concert part I: Live at Montreux, the piano as percussion. West African balafon, percussion as melody.
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Feb. 2, 2023 David Dalle Black History Month. Celebrating 60 years of Charles Mingus' "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady". Also a look at Ostinato Records' East African collection.
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Jan. 26, 2023 David Dalle The Morgenland All Star Band Part II: Live in Beirut. Incredible Kurdish singer Aynur. Canadian composer Keyan Emami's "The Black Fish"
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Jan. 19, 2023 David Dalle The Disciple's Guru: Kishori Amonkar in concert; brass music from the Balkans and India, Ukrainian-Newfoundland music.
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Jan. 12, 2023 David Dalle The Morgenland All Star Band Part I: Live in Hannover
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Jan. 5, 2023 David Dalle Africa on vinyl! Music from Somalia, Congo-Brazzaville, Mali, Gabon, Tanzania, South Africa and more. The Romantic Piano Concerto vol. 84.
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Dec. 29, 2022 David Dalle My 2022 favourites.
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Dec. 22, 2022 David Dalle The Winter Solstice journey from Darkness to Light: This year with Igor Levit's new recording of Hans Werner Henze's "Tristan".
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Dec. 15, 2022 David Dalle Concluding the Ukrainian symphonic cycle with Lyatoshynsky's 5th symphony. Celebrating the career of Canadian pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico.
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Dec. 8, 2022 David Dalle Celebrating the "Atlas Lions" with the latest from the Master Musicians of Jajouka and other Moroccan music!
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Dec. 1, 2022 David Dalle Syrian Oud master Safwan Bahlawan live in concert. Kinan Azmeh's most recent release. New music from Eliades Ochoa. Zimbabwe's Black Umfolosi and more!
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Nov. 24, 2022 David Dalle In a Hungarian mood. Bijan Kamkar and the Tehran Symphony Orchestra. Kamancello.
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Nov. 17, 2022 David Dalle Ukrainian symphonic cycle. The symphonies of Boris Lyatoshynsky. The latest from Sarathy Kowar. Kamancello. Kayhan Kalhor and Shujaat Hussein Khan.
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Nov. 10, 2022 David Dalle Funding drive funding drive funding drive!
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Nov. 3, 2022 David Dalle FUNDING DRIVE!!!! Bring the light!
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Oct. 27, 2022 David Dalle Farewell to Geoff Nuttall, 1st violinist of the St Lawrence String Quartet; Kinan Azmeh in Ottawa.
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Oct. 20, 2022 David Dalle Andalusian Spanish and Arabic music. Continuing explorations into Pharoah Sander
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Oct. 13, 2022 David Dalle John Luther Adams' Sila: The Breath of the World. Keith Jarrett in Bordeaux.
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Oct. 6, 2022 David Dalle Brand new Keith Jarrett, the Bordeaux Concert. For Women, Life, Freedom in Iran.
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Sep. 29, 2022 David Dalle Ukrainian symphonic cycle. The symphonies of Boris Lyatoshynsky. A farewell to Pharoah Sanders.
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Sep. 22, 2022 David Dalle Become Ocean. John Luther Adams overwhelming masterpiece coming to Ottawa!
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Sep. 15, 2022 David Dalle Ustad Bismillah Khan; C.P.E. Bach on the extremely rare tangent piano and modern piano; Bekah Simms; Jazz trumpets from around the world and more.
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Sep. 8, 2022 David Dalle Sarathy Korwar Night Dreamer Direct-to-Disc Sessions; Music of Derrick Skye.
Sep. 1, 2022 David Dalle Latest from Analog Africa with a look at one of South Africa's most popular bands from the '70's: The Movers. Dreaming of Fez, Morocco with deeply nostalgic music of Andalusian master Abdelkrim Rais.
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Aug. 25, 2022 David Dalle Ukrainian symphonic cycle. The symphonies of Boris Lyatoshynsky. Music from Yemen. Frederic Rzewski.
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Aug. 18, 2022 David Dalle Annual Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Memorial show, 25th edition.
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Aug. 11, 2022 David Dalle Fred Hersch's jazz "Sati Suite" for his piano trio and string quartet. Jack DeJohnette at 80.
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Aug. 4, 2022 David Dalle The Danish String Quartet and a holy song of thanksgiving for all that we have loved and lost.
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Jul. 28, 2022 David Dalle Ukrainian symphonic cycle. The symphonies of Boris Lyatoshynsky. Cellists at the Chamberfest.
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Jul. 21, 2022 David Dalle Small Island Big Song: 22000 kilometres of music!
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Jul. 14, 2022 David Dalle South African guitarist Derek Gripper live in studio! Sitarist Irshad Khan.
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Jul. 7, 2022 David Dalle More Bombino! Music and Beyond with the Bennewitz Quartet and one of the greatest Indian musical dynasties.
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Jun. 30, 2022 David Dalle African guitars! Vieux Farka Touré's new album, Bombino live in concert, Charlie Haden and Carla Bley and more!
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Jun. 23, 2022 David Dalle First new album from T.S. Monk in 20 years; Les Filles de Illighadad live in concert; Andrew Paul Macdonald with his quintet for electric guitar and more!
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Jun. 16, 2022 David Dalle Vox Sambou; Electric soul and brass from Sudan's Red Sea; continuing journey through Niger; Mahler
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Jun. 9, 2022 David Dalle The new cross cultural collaboration from Senegalese kora player Ablaye Cissoko and French accordionist Cyrille Brotto; the latest from Japanese pianist-composer Koki Nakano; Classics on vinyl; our continuing journey through Niger.
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Jun. 2, 2022 David Dalle Music of Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Sun Ra, continuing our journey through Niger and more.
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May. 26, 2022 David Dalle Spinning tunes from Niger, Shakti, Keith Jarrett, and wherever the winds blow
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May. 19, 2022 David Dalle Live in studio! Farewell to Shivkumar Sharma; spinning vinyl.
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May. 12, 2022 David Dalle BACK LIVE IN STUDIO!!! After 109 Pandemic Programs recorded at home, I am back in studio live! This is your dad's radio! This is your grandma's radio! A big stack of vinyl with music for your ears!
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May. 5, 2022 David Dalle Farewell to Rudy Gomis, founding member and lead singer of Orchestre Baobab.
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Apr. 28, 2022 David Dalle Sun Ra in Egypt; celebrating 100 years of Mingus; guitar music from West Africa
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Apr. 21, 2022 David Dalle The culturally diverse music of Derrick Skye; new unknown music from Sudan, Mexico; Utsav Lal; Radu Lupu and Murray Perahia.
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Apr. 14, 2022 David Dalle Passion music according to me: Bach, Egypt, Stephan Micus, Armenia, Sigur Ros.
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Apr. 7, 2022 David Dalle Philip Glass in Ottawa and his latest symphony!
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Mar. 31, 2022 David Dalle Vicariously lived journey through Portugal
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Mar. 24, 2022 David Dalle The latest from Montreal jazz pianist and composer Yves Léveillé. Piano duo Luboshotz and Nemenoff. Verdi.
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Mar. 17, 2022 David Dalle Armenian, Syrian, Iraqi music including an extremely rare recording of the Armenian community in Aleppo, Syria.
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Mar. 10, 2022 David Dalle New music from Angola, Niger, music from Djibouti, warmth from Dvorak and rage from Chopin.
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Mar. 3, 2022 David Dalle Music of suffering and defiance from Ukraine, Latvia, and Finland.
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Feb. 24, 2022 David Dalle The vanishing Uyghur music from Xinjiang; music from Cuba, Angola, Brazil, Mocambique and more.
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Feb. 17, 2022 David Dalle Tanya Tagaq: A mother's rage. The violent, tragic, and joyful history of New Orleans through Jazz.
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Feb. 10, 2022 David Dalle George Crumb; Vietnam; celebrating Senegal
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Feb. 3, 2022 David Dalle Ukrainian, Baltic, Finnish, Norwegian music: folk, classical, and jazz.
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Jan. 27, 2022 David Dalle From the collection of Bill Drake part II: honouring a fellow Ottawa radio DJ, William Drake with a slice of classic Americana from his collection.
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Jan. 20, 2022 David Dalle Guest Noam Lemish joins me to discuss his new album "Erlebnisse" and his far-flung musical career. Music from Sarathy Korwar, Mohamed Abozekry, Girija Devi.
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Jan. 13, 2022 David Dalle I Will Not Stand Alone by Kayhan Kalhor; new music from Niger and Cabo Verde; music from Cameroon and Liszt.
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Jan. 6, 2022 David Dalle Anna Thorvaldsottir's "Enigma"; the latest from The Halluci Nation and Niger's Etran de L'Air; music from Ghana, Brahms, and some jazz.
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Dec. 30, 2021 David Dalle Favourite albums from 2021. Music from Ghana, Niger, Mali, Nigeria, Columbia, Ethiopia, Iceland, Romania, Iran, Netherlands, Thelonious Monk, Sun Ra, Vijay Iyer and more.
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Dec. 23, 2021 David Dalle From Darkness to Light: the annual winter solstice program with Sofia Gubaidulina.
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Dec. 16, 2021 David Dalle Bulgarian music meets the Renaissance master Palestrina.
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Dec. 9, 2021 David Dalle A portrait of Djivan Gasparyan; Utsav Lal Raga Shorts; latest from Ustad Saami.
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Dec. 2, 2021 David Dalle From the collection of Bill Drake part I: honouring a fellow Ottawa radio DJ, William Drake with a slice of classic Americana from his collection.
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Nov. 25, 2021 David Dalle New Indian piano music from Utsav Lal; oud and sitar with Hussein El Masry and Narendra Bataju; Matthew Shipp live; more from Ballake Sissoko, Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita
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Nov. 18, 2021 David Dalle New music from Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita, Ballaké Sissoko, Sofia Gubaidulina. Ragas Live Festival!
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Nov. 11, 2021 David Dalle Funding Drive!! Help the music continue to ring out in its beauty, its anger, its joy, its sadness, in all its extraordinary forms on CKCU on Thursday afternoons!
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Nov. 4, 2021 David Dalle Funding Drive!! Keep CKCU and the music alive!
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Oct. 28, 2021 David Dalle John Coltrane's newly discovered "A Love Supreme" recorded live in Seattle. Gidon Kremer performing Sofia Gubaidulina.
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Oct. 21, 2021 David Dalle Katayoun Goudarzi and Shujaat Husain Khan join me to discuss their longstanding collaboration and their brand new album. Philip Glass' "Akhnaten" Act III.
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Oct. 14, 2021 David Dalle New and recent jazz releases from Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey; Terence Blanchard; Omar Sosa. Philip Glass' "Akhnaten" Act II.
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Oct. 7, 2021 David Dalle New Fanfare Ciocarlia! Catching up on 2021 No Format releases. Philip Glass' "Akhnaten".
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Sep. 30, 2021 David Dalle National Day of Truth and Reconciliation: First Nations, Inuit, and Métis music.
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Sep. 23, 2021 David Dalle Deep listening from Iceland, Canada, Argentina. Sun Ra "In Some Far Place" part IV.
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Sep. 16, 2021 David Dalle Celebrating 25 years of the Buena Vista Social Club part II: The Stars of the Buena Vista Social Club
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Sep. 9, 2021 David Dalle Analog Africa's latest releases: a fantastic compilation of rare and raw funk from Cameroon (1964-1979) and 1970's psychedelic Cumbia from Peruvian Manzanita y Su Conjunto. Sun Ra "In Some Far Place" part III.
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Sep. 2, 2021 David Dalle Celebrating 25 years of the Buena Vista Social Club part I: Live at Carnegie Hall.
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Aug. 26, 2021 David Dalle Lament for Afghanistan
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Aug. 19, 2021 David Dalle Annual Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan memorial show: This year, an exceedingly rare bootleg recording of Nusrat's first appearance in Ottawa!
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Aug. 12, 2021 David Dalle The Disciple's Guru: Kishori Amonkar in concert; brass music from the Balkans and India, Ukrainian-Newfoundland music.
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Aug. 5, 2021 David Dalle Brooklyn Raga Massive "In D" and Africa Express presents "In C Mali"
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Jul. 29, 2021 David Dalle Music from India; Musicians from Mali and Niger.
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Jul. 22, 2021 David Dalle Egypt. Sun Ra in Egypt 1971. Sheikh Yasin Al-Tuhami.
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Jul. 15, 2021 David Dalle Niger's Les Filles de Illighadad live in concert; drums from Africa, the Caribbean and South America.
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Jul. 8, 2021 David Dalle Sun Ra "In Some Far Place" part II; Farafina and Jon Hassell; Frederic Rzewski.
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Jul. 1, 2021 David Dalle Canada Day?
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Jun. 24, 2021 David Dalle Sun Ra "In Some Far Place" part I. Three generations of Fela Kuti. The unique sound world of Georg Friedrich Haas. Bismillah Khan.
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Jun. 17, 2021 David Dalle Constantine Caravassilis' guitar concerto "Saudade"; oud and voice with Cinucen Tanrikorur; Lubomyr Melnyk.
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Jun. 10, 2021 David Dalle New African releases from Mdou Moctar, Toumani Diabaté, Hailu Mergia. New music from Rajasthan with Bagga Khan. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
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Jun. 3, 2021 David Dalle Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc. Canada's Indian Residential Schools. Christos Hatzis Going Home Star.
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May. 27, 2021 David Dalle New music from Bapi Das Baul, Namgar Lkhasaranova and music from Quebecois composer François Tousignant
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May. 20, 2021 David Dalle Malian music in New York City and Paris; Brooklyn Raga Massive; Hariprasad Chaurasia and more.
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May. 13, 2021 David Dalle Breaking musical boundaries: Brooklyn Raga Massive's Quarantine Dreams; latest from Ballaké Sissoko; William Parker; Land of Kush.
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May. 6, 2021 David Dalle Music from Hungary, Italy, North Macedonia, Spain; some 78's from North Africa; Pandit Jasraj; Liszt's Funeral Odes.
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Apr. 29, 2021 David Dalle Hasaan Ibn Ali's lost album "Metaphysics", heard for the first time after 56 years. A farewell to Hindustani singer Rajan Mishra.
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Apr. 22, 2021 David Dalle Mdou Moctar blowout!
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Apr. 15, 2021 David Dalle An in-depth conversation with Frank Horvat and his pandemic project "Music for Self-Isolation"
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Apr. 8, 2021 David Dalle Alexina Louie's "Take The Dog Sled" with Inuit throat singers Evie Mark and Akinisie Sivuarapik. Remembering the unimaginable.
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Apr. 1, 2021 David Dalle Passion music: two contemporary settings of a mother's grief.
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Mar. 25, 2021 David Dalle Keith Jarrett II: Ending with the Beginning.
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Mar. 18, 2021 David Dalle The latest from Analog Africa: Edo Funk Explosion vol. 1; music for Nowruz, Qawaali fusions from Pakistan and more.
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Mar. 11, 2021 David Dalle Songs for Murdered Sisters: an Ottawa tragedy; a global scourge; a brother's grief.
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Mar. 4, 2021 David Dalle Brand new release from Hossein Alizadeh with the Rembrandt Trio, with a unique combination of instruments. Made Kuti's latest album and more!
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Feb. 25, 2021 David Dalle Black History Month: music from American composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey and a retrospective of Guinean kora master Djelimoussa Diawara.
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Feb. 18, 2021 David Dalle Musical Legacies: Homayoun Shajarian and Femi Kuti; Congolese Soukous and Funk from Verckys and more.
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Feb. 11, 2021 David Dalle Utsav Lal joins me for an in-depth conversation about his brand new album "Visangati", as well as his ongoing 17 year journey bringing Hindustani music to the piano. Also, music from Ethiopia, Columbia, Niger, and more.
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Feb. 4, 2021 David Dalle Lakha Khan, Rajasthani sindhi-sarangi master live in concert; a conversation with Amarrass Records' Ankur Malhotra.
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Jan. 28, 2021 David Dalle Sarathy Korwar's latest; a selection of Canadiana; Carnatic violinist L. Subramaniam with Hungarian violinist Roby Lakatos.
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Jan. 21, 2021 David Dalle Music from Mexico, the Dominican, Angola, Mali, Morocco, Pakistan, and Iran.
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Jan. 14, 2021 David Dalle New music from John Luther Adams, experimental Argentinian jazz, new music from Mali, Djibouti, and more!
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Jan. 7, 2021 David Dalle Starting 2021 with a glorious sound! Tyshawn Sorey's "Unfiltered".
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Dec. 31, 2020 David Dalle My favourites of 2020
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Dec. 24, 2020 David Dalle From Darkness to Light: Annual Winter Solstice program starring Osvaldo Golijov's brand new work "Falling Out of Time".
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Dec. 17, 2020 David Dalle Beethoven, all too human.
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Dec. 10, 2020 David Dalle Keith Jarrett I: Beginning with the end.
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Dec. 3, 2020 David Dalle Sun Ra Arkestra's brand new album!
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Nov. 26, 2020 David Dalle All Canadian show: Didem Basar, Constantine Caravassilis, James Ehnes, Zal Sissokho, Kamancello and more
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Nov. 19, 2020 David Dalle Brooklyn Raga Massive: "In D" the Brooklyn-based South Asian rooted musical collective's glorious new tribute to Terry Riley's "In C". This weekend's 24 hour global "Ragas Live Festival".
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Nov. 12, 2020 David Dalle Frank Horvat's Earth Hour 2. The latest from Analog Africa: La Locura De Machuca.
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Nov. 5, 2020 David Dalle Funding Drive II: Favourite music from all over the world.
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Oct. 29, 2020 David Dalle Funding Drive I: Favourite music from all over the world.
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Oct. 22, 2020 David Dalle What's next Vivaldi? Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Lubomyr Melnyk. V.G. Jog, Zakir Hussain. Piano. Violin.
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Oct. 15, 2020 David Dalle Remembering Mohammad Reza Shajarian.
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Oct. 8, 2020 David Dalle What makes Canada great: new Canadian Andean-Persian fusion, Kora Flamenco fusion; the latest from Oumou Sangare and more.
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Oct. 1, 2020 David Dalle A new never-released-before recording of Thelonious Monk live in concert. New music from Zanzibar songstress Siti Muharam, music from India, Zimbabwe, Comoros and more.
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Sep. 24, 2020 David Dalle The World Burns. Dance like there's no tomorrow.
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Sep. 17, 2020 David Dalle Afel Bocoum's new album; the latest from Sarathy Korwar ; the latest from Sahel Sounds Music from Saharan WhatsApp and lots more!
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Sep. 10, 2020 David Dalle Brand new from Rajasthan's Barmer Boys: Live in Berlin; music from Macedonia, Turkey, Western Sahara, Mali, Hungary and more
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Sep. 3, 2020 David Dalle Ibrahim Maalouf's "Levantine Symphony no. 1"; music from Djibouti, Somalia, Mali, Cuba and more!
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Aug. 27, 2020 David Dalle Farewell to Pandit Jasraj, one of the greatest voices of his generation.
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Aug. 20, 2020 David Dalle Annual Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan memorial show
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Aug. 13, 2020 David Dalle Fantastic new Ethiopian/​Tuareg collaboration, the first ever international release of music from Djibouti, Saharan WhatsApp vol. 7, new music from Sam Shalabi, Nargile Mehtiyeva and more.
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Aug. 6, 2020 David Dalle Farewell to Balla Sidibé, founding member and lead singer of Orchestre Baobab
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Jul. 30, 2020 David Dalle Music from the shadows: Kamancello, Shahram Nazeri, Jacob Cooper and the String Orchestra of Brooklyn.
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Jul. 23, 2020 David Dalle Celebrating being back on FM with joyful music from Mali, Haiti, Cabo Verde, and Morocco. The ghost of chamber music.
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Jul. 16, 2020 David Dalle Aissaoua Sufi ceremony, Marrakesh
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Jul. 9, 2020 David Dalle Looking back at one of the first Analog Africa releases the seminal "African Scream Contest" compilation and looking forward to new music from Madou Sidiki Diabate and more.
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Jul. 2, 2020 David Dalle The brand new album from Toronto-based artist Shahriyar Jamshidi; Mory Kante's final album; Music from Saharan WhatsApp vol. 6
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Jun. 25, 2020 David Dalle A program from the vaults, June 26 2014: Part II looking at Nana Vasconcelos; new music from Toumani Diabate, Noura Mint Seymali
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Jun. 18, 2020 David Dalle A guest playlist with recent releases from Tony Daye; Tony Allen's last recording, a fabulous excursion into jazz and more.
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Jun. 11, 2020 David Dalle Farewell to Janis Lockwood
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Jun. 4, 2020 David Dalle Black Rage and Grief
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May. 28, 2020 David Dalle Tribute to Guinean singer Mory Kante; Sahel Sounds Music From WhatsApp vol. 5; Kasse Mady Diabate; Moroccan music
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May. 21, 2020 David Dalle New guitar music from Senegal with Tidiane Thiam; unique Rajasthani and Copenhagen ambient electronica fusion; Romantic Piano Concerto vol. 80 and more
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May. 14, 2020 David Dalle Sun Ra Goes to Translyvania: thoughts of Mahler and Astro-Hungarian Jewish Music with Frank London.
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May. 7, 2020 David Dalle Remembering Tony Allen with a retrospective of his illustrious groundbreaking career with help from Tony Daye.
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Apr. 30, 2020 David Dalle A guest playlist by Tony Daye; Shehnai Jugalbandi with Ustad Bismillah Khan & Bageshwari Qamar and more
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Apr. 23, 2020 David Dalle Chucho Valdes live in concert, a brand new album from Esma's Band, formed from members of the late Esma Redzepova's Ensemble Teodosievski, lots of trumpets and other goodies from Hungary, Poland, France and elsewhere.
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Apr. 16, 2020 David Dalle Hailu Mergia's new album "Yene Mircha"; the new Sahel Sounds Music from Sahran Whatsapp vol. 4; music from South Africa, Cameroon, Algeria, Congo, Cuba and more.
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Apr. 9, 2020 David Dalle Passions, two extraordinary concept albums with music for Good Friday from Venice 1600-750 and late 20th century Europe.
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Apr. 2, 2020 David Dalle Manu Dibango retrospective; a new recording from Hugh Masekela; the new Sahel Sounds Music from Sahran Whatsapp vol.3; the newest from Analog Africa; Marc-Andre Hamelin's latest.
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Mar. 26, 2020 David Dalle There are no happy endings.
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Mar. 19, 2020 David Dalle Memories of Springs past, program from March 13th 2014.
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Mar. 12, 2020 David Dalle Ravi Shankar's final work, completely unexpected, unique, and magnificent!
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Mar. 5, 2020 David Dalle New recordings with Arvo Part, Peteris Vasks, folk rock from Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Steve Reich, and more.
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Feb. 27, 2020 David Dalle Analog Africa in Ottawa! The brand new album from Didem Basar
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Feb. 20, 2020 David Dalle Abdel Aziz El Mubarak, Ballake Sissoko, Constantinople, Beethoven and more
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Feb. 13, 2020 David Dalle Kiya Tabassian of Constantinople will be joining me to discuss his musical tour of West and North Africa and his upcoming Ottawa concert "Breathings" with First Nations and Tuvan musicians. Music from Saharan WhatsApp 02
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Feb. 6, 2020 David Dalle Saudade, with bit of Beethoven, music from Greece, the Balkans, Argentina, Cabo Verde and more.
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Jan. 30, 2020 David Dalle A look at the Ottawa Winter Jazz Festival with the astonishing musician Colin Stetson.
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Jan. 23, 2020 David Dalle John Luther Adam's "Become Desert", the latest project from Sahel Sounds, recent releases from Mali.
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Jan. 16, 2020 David Dalle Iranian grief and rage with Mohammad Reza Shajarian and Mohammad Reza Lotfi. Mournful and beautiful strings from 12 Ensemble. Rush.
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Jan. 9, 2020 Steve Kirkland Miles from India... Alice from, er, Michigan.
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Jan. 2, 2020 David Dalle A look back at my favourite releases from 2019
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Dec. 26, 2019 David Dalle Joyful and festive music and a look at music from Cabo Verde on Ostinato Records including their brand new compilation "Pour Me A Grog: The Funana Revolt in 1990s Cabo Verde"
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Dec. 19, 2019 David Dalle From Darkness to Light: Annual winter solstice show with Patricia Kopatchinskaja's "Time & Eternity"
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Dec. 12, 2019 David Dalle Glorious African music that funks so hard from Burkino Faso, Ethiopia, Somalia. Ecstasy and rapture from Alexander Scriabin; Constantinople Ensemble and Savina Yannatou in concert and more.
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Dec. 5, 2019 David Dalle The last of 12 exceptional concert recordings for 2019: Master of the Sindhi Sarangi Lakha Khan in concert in Nashville.
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Nov. 28, 2019 David Dalle Mogadisco - Dancing Mogadishu from 1972-1991 and other African musics, New Italian Jazz, Ravi Shankar, Philip Glass and more.
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Nov. 21, 2019 David Dalle The 11th of 12 exceptional concert recordings for 2019: Cuban pianist Jorge Bolet roaring his magnificence to the heavens!
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Nov. 14, 2019 David Dalle Ottawa composer/​pianist Frank Horvat will be joining me to discuss his brand new album! Also continuing the celebration of 25 years on-air with music from 2012-2019.
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Nov. 7, 2019 David Dalle Celebrating 25 years on-air! Help the music continue to ring out in its beauty, its anger, its joy, its sadness, in all its extraordinary forms on CKCU on Thursday afternoons! 2003-2011.
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Oct. 31, 2019 David Dalle Celebrating 25 years on-air! Help the music continue to ring out in its beauty, its anger, its joy, its sadness, in all its extraordinary forms on CKCU on Thursday afternoons! 1994-2002.
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Oct. 24, 2019 David Dalle Some finds from last week's Record Show including music from Haiti and Martinique, more Franco and Tabu Ley, some very obscure Sun Ra and more!
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Oct. 17, 2019 David Dalle Franco, soukous from Tanzania and Kenya, Utsav Lal, Kamancello, Kurdish music and more.
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Oct. 10, 2019 David Dalle On entre OK et on sort KO: Celebrating the life of one of the greatest giants of African music, Franco Luambo, who died 30 years ago on Oct 12th, with a retrospective of his career. Farewell to Jessye Norman.
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Oct. 3, 2019 David Dalle The 10th of 12 exceptional concert recordings for 2019: Uri Caine Ensemble at the Mahler Festival in Toblach, Italy.
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Sep. 26, 2019 David Dalle The legendary 1985 WOMAD concert by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, never released until now.
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Sep. 19, 2019 David Dalle Tribute to the master percussionist Hossam Ramzy; Ensembles Constantinople and Caprice together
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Sep. 12, 2019 David Dalle Blick Bassy and his extraordinary tribute to Cameroonian independence hero Ruben Um Nyobe.
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Sep. 5, 2019 David Dalle The 8th of 12 exceptional concert recordings for 2019: Kayhan Kalhor in concert with Madjid Khaladj; Kamancello, Arvo Part
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Aug. 29, 2019 David Dalle Music for a Burning World.
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Aug. 22, 2019 David Dalle Rachid Taha's final album. Chopin, new music from Alex Cuba, Mariachi Los Camperos, the Brooklyn Funk Essentials and more.
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Aug. 15, 2019 David Dalle Annual Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan memorial show
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Aug. 8, 2019 David Dalle Old and new favourites including a lot of music from India and diaspora
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Aug. 1, 2019 David Dalle Guests Kinan Azmeh and Maryem Tollar join me to discuss their music and appearances at the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival!
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Jul. 25, 2019 David Dalle Become Desert, John Luther Adams' most recent work which is "both a celebration of the deserts we are given and a lamentation of the deserts we create." Other desert music.
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Jul. 18, 2019 David Dalle A journey to the city of Belem in northeastern Brazil and the incredible music and nightlife of the 1970's. Farewell to Johnny Clegg. Senegalese Sourakata Koite.
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Jul. 11, 2019 David Dalle Highlights from the 2nd week of Music & Beyond, celebrating its 10th anniversary: the Borodin Quartet and Shostakovich, Ensemble Caprice and Shostakovich, Bach, Vivaldi.
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Jul. 4, 2019 David Dalle The 7th of 12 exceptional concert recordings for 2019: Malian singers Ousmane Sacko and Yakaré Diabaté. A rare recording of an exquisite night of Malian Mandé music from this famed couple, so important to Malian music but who rarely ventured outside Mali.
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Jun. 27, 2019 David Dalle Almost mystical jazz from Portugal and a wide mix of strangeness from all parts
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Jun. 20, 2019 David Dalle Kayhan Kalhor's latest cross-cultural collaboration with the Dutch Rembrandt Frerichs jazz trio. Cosmic jazz, Cuban beauty and Peruvian psychedelic Cumbia.
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Jun. 13, 2019 David Dalle Electric Guitars Over Africa: electric guitar-driven music from west and central Africa, Niger, Mali, Senegal, Mauritania, the Congo and elsewhere.
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Jun. 6, 2019 David Dalle The 6th of 12 exceptional concert recordings for 2019: One of the final recordings from the great Astor Piazzolla. The new album from Kamancello. Music for D-Day.
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May. 30, 2019 David Dalle Kamancello returns! Kamancello will be performing live in-studio!
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May. 23, 2019 Steve Kirkland Shakti live in 1997 and 1999. Then traditional folk, classical, neo-classical and experimental musics from Sweden, from mid-1950s to 1980.
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May. 16, 2019 David Dalle Mahler's most enigmatic symphony, his 7th, in a new recording with Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. The Toronto Symphony Orchestra will be performing Mahler's 7th in Ottawa on May 22nd. Youssou N'Dour's brand new album.
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May. 9, 2019 David Dalle Homayoun Shajarian with his recent album "Emshab Kenar-E Ghazalhaye Man Bekhab" with music by Fardin Khal'Atbari.
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May. 2, 2019 David Dalle The 5th of 12 exceptional concert recordings for 2019: Irresistible and joyful brass, piano, and percussion from the Kocani Orkestar in concert with jazz pianist Romeo Scacci, recorded in concert in Italy, 2010.
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Apr. 25, 2019 David Dalle Looking at the 2nd album from the popular Somali group Dur-Dur, originally released in 1987, recently reissued by Analog Africa. Music from Kinan Azmeh, Haydn, Mexico, Morocco and more.
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Apr. 18, 2019 David Dalle Music from Notre-Dame, music for Passover with Yom and for the Passion with Liszt's Stabat Mater
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Apr. 11, 2019 David Dalle Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and his new album "Uneven Sky" with his own works and other Syrian composers. Music from Sudan.
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Apr. 4, 2019 David Dalle The fourth of twelve exceptional concert recordings for 2019: Master of Arab-Andalousian Ma'luf, Cheikh Raymond Leyris, in a 1954 concert.
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Mar. 28, 2019 David Dalle The Pakistani master singers, brothers Nazakat & Salamat Ali Khan recorded live in Cologne in 1970. Kronos Quartet, Kamancello, Divanhana and more.
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Mar. 21, 2019 David Dalle Music for Nowruz, Holi; Kodo; music from Mozambique, Arvo Part and more
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Mar. 14, 2019 David Dalle "Three Letters from Sarajevo", Goran Bregovic's new album with his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra. New albums from Seckou Keita & AKA Trio, Bassekou Kouyate & N'Goni Ba, Ustad Saami, Dino Saluzzi.
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Mar. 7, 2019 David Dalle The third of twelve exceptional concert recordings for 2019: Omar Sosa & Gustavo Ovalles. The unique Persian-Flamenco singing and music of Canada's Farnaz Ohadi.
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Feb. 28, 2019 David Dalle Julius Eastman Part III: Julius alone. Music from Suad Bushnaq, Bassekou Kouyate, Habib Koite
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Feb. 21, 2019 David Dalle Julius Eastman Part II: The Buffalo years 1968-76. Music from Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita.
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Feb. 14, 2019 David Dalle Julius Eastman Part I: "What I am trying to achieve is to be what I am to the fullest--Black to the fullest, a musician to the fullest, a homosexual to the fullest"
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Feb. 7, 2019 David Dalle Second of twelve exceptional concert recordings I will be programming in 2019: Mingus at Antibes 1960.
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Jan. 31, 2019 David Dalle A retrospective of the other great Lion of Zimbabwe, Oliver Mtukudzi, who passed away last week, with music from 1978-2018. Music from Somalia with the Dur-Dur Band.
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Jan. 24, 2019 David Dalle Music of Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir part II: Music for a disquiet world.
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Jan. 17, 2019 David Dalle Hindustani music on the piano with Utsav Lal, Salif Keita's new album.
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Jan. 10, 2019 David Dalle Music of Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir part I
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Jan. 3, 2019 David Dalle First of twelve exceptional concert recordings I will be programming in 2019: The Kamkars live in Paris 1995. The new album from Lubomyr Melnyk.
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Dec. 27, 2018 David Dalle My favourites from 2018
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Dec. 20, 2018 David Dalle Death in Moscow: Shostakovich's final symphony. Followed by joyful music from around the world.
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Dec. 13, 2018 David Dalle In-depth look at "Two Niles to sing a melody", a compilation of 70's Sudanese music and Igor Levit's "Life", many saxophonists and more!
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Dec. 6, 2018 David Dalle A plunge into darkness with rich strings and voices from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Norway, American composer Michael Hersche and Bach, with and African splash of warmth in the Norwegian winter.
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Nov. 29, 2018 David Dalle For Those Who Died Trying: Guest, Ottawa-born composer Frank Horvat joins me to introduce his new work "The Thailand HRDs"
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Nov. 22, 2018 David Dalle Repeat of a great program with Hugh Masekela, Congolese masterpieces, Vieux Farka Toure, Omar Sosa and more
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Nov. 15, 2018 David Dalle Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko and some astonishing new Brazilian jazz born out of bigotry
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Nov. 8, 2018 David Dalle A farewell to Ron Sweetman with music to send him off to the jazz club in the sky
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Nov. 1, 2018 David Dalle All the music in the world
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Oct. 25, 2018 David Dalle Help the music continue to ring out in its beauty, its anger, its joy, its sadness, in all its extraordinary forms on CKCU--Donate now!
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Oct. 18, 2018 David Dalle In the Footsteps of the Griot, Senegalese, Persian, Yemeni, Kurdish musics and more
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Oct. 11, 2018 David Dalle Shahram Nazeri & Hafez Nazeri in the Rumi Symphony
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Oct. 4, 2018 David Dalle Shahram Nazeri; African musics
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Sep. 27, 2018 David Dalle Shahram Nazeri with his son Hafez Nazeri
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Sep. 20, 2018 David Dalle Polaris prize winner Jeremy Dutcher, Hailu Mergia, Shahram Nazeri, Rachid Taha, IMOO fest, Beethoven
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Sep. 13, 2018 David Dalle Beethoven. Klezmer. Nusrat.
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Aug. 30, 2018 David Dalle From Senegal to North Carolina back to Senegal again
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Aug. 23, 2018 David Dalle And behold the Earth moves
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Aug. 16, 2018 David Dalle Annual Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Memorial Show: remembering Nusrat with Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
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Aug. 9, 2018 David Dalle A look at the Great India Festival in Ottawa this weekend with the legendary L. Subramaniam
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Aug. 2, 2018 David Dalle A look at the Chamberfest's New Music Now mini-festival this Monday with music by Philip Glass and Pierre Boulez
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Jul. 26, 2018 David Dalle Peace in Eritrea and Ethiopia: guest Teshome Hundama joins me to discuss the enormous good news from the Horn of Africa, and to spin some new tunes celebrating this wonderful event.
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Jul. 19, 2018 David Dalle Small Island Big Song, a magnificent voyage through islands of the Pacific and Indian oceans; Become Ocean, John Luther Adams gorgeous apocalypse.
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Jul. 12, 2018 Steve Kirkalnd Third Ear Band, Jozef van Wissem
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Jul. 5, 2018 David Dalle Fantastic beats and melodies from Sudan, Ethiopia and elsewhere in East Africa to complement this sweltering heat.
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Jun. 28, 2018 David Dalle Remembrance of Things Past: rare music from Henryk Gorecki and other strangeness to disturb your summer tranquility.
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Jun. 21, 2018 David Dalle Music of the World Cup: Nations from South, Central, and North America, with a focus on Pablo Ziegler; farewell to Gennady Rozhdestvensky.
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Jun. 14, 2018 David Dalle 2018 World Cup! Music from the five African nations. Some highlights from the upcoming Ottawa Jazz Festival and more.
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Jun. 7, 2018 David Dalle Kayhan Kalhor IV: Night Silence Desert; Wolastoqiyik First Nations singer Jeremy Dutcher's astonishing new album; latest from Anouar Brahem
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May. 31, 2018 David Dalle Farewell to the greatest of the great Mandé singers, Kassé Mady Diabaté. Kayhan Kalhor III
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May. 24, 2018 David Dalle Kayhan Kalhor II: one of the greatest Persian musicians of his generation and a Carleton alumni. Part II, performing on the setar with Shahram Nazeri. And accordions!
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May. 17, 2018 David Dalle Kayhan Kalhor I: one of the greatest Persian musicians of his generation and a Carleton alumni. Part I, his collaboration with Erdal Erzincan.
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May. 10, 2018 David Dalle The Earth Moves: mountains rise and mountains fall as Titanic forces strive for infinity in Bruckner's 8th symphony.
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May. 3, 2018 David Dalle Guest, cellist Catherine Bent joins me to discuss her new release of Brazilian music recorded in Rio de Janeiro. Other amazing and adventurous cellists.
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Apr. 26, 2018 David Dalle Two solo live recordings: Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva, and Yemeni oud player Ahmad Fathi
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Apr. 19, 2018 David Dalle Music for two pianos by Frank Horvat, Astor Piazzolla, Stravinsky. With solo violin and tangos intertwined with Iraqi classical maqam. Cecil Taylor alone at the piano.
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Apr. 12, 2018 David Dalle The dissident finally revealed: Shostakovich and his 13th symphony. His searing indictment of Soviet life, particularly the Antisemitism which continued to plague the Soviet Union. Music from Krakow and Berlin's lost Jewish pre-Shoah community.
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Apr. 5, 2018 David Dalle A look at some incredible concerts coming to Ottawa this month
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Mar. 29, 2018 David Dalle Passion music: Sofia Gubaidulina's Seven Words, Arvo Part, Bach, Sardinian a capella
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Mar. 22, 2018 David Dalle Welcoming Spring with Stravinsky's own 2-piano transcription of his Rite of Spring; new releases of Ethio-jazz with Hailu Mergia, Hindustani sarod with Alam Khan
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Mar. 15, 2018 David Dalle A farewell to Stephen Hawking with music for the Cosmos
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Mar. 8, 2018 David Dalle Celebrating International Women's Day with music from composers Sofia Gubaidulina, Gloria Coates, Hindustani violin with Kala Ramnath and more.
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Mar. 1, 2018 PeterB PeterB fills in today. Featuring a fantastic new raga version of Terry Riley's seminal "In C"!
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Feb. 22, 2018 David Dalle Afro-Cuban and Brazilian percussion; a Mingus moment; more classic afro-funk
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Feb. 15, 2018 David Dalle Into 1970's Africa with fantastic Afro-funk from northern Cameroon, Cuban-inspired classics from Senegal. Vieux Farka Touré; Carnatic flautist Shashank Subramanyam.
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Feb. 8, 2018 David Dalle A look at upcoming concerts with Constantinople's "Under the Indian Musical Sky" and Quartetski Does Bartok's Mikrokosmos, experimental improvisations on Bartok.
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Feb. 1, 2018 David Dalle More Hugh Masekela, Congolese masterpieces, Vieux Farka Toure, Omar Sosa and more
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Jan. 25, 2018 David Dalle Celebrating the life and music of Hugh Masekela, the supreme South African musician who passed away this week aged 78.
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Jan. 18, 2018 David Dalle "Shakespearean profundity" from Shostakovich with his extraordinary 1st violin concerto with David Oistrakh.
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Jan. 11, 2018 David Dalle Shostakovich's 12th symphony: The composer's surrender? Hungarian, Greek, Bulgarian, Cuban, Uruguayan and other music.
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Jan. 4, 2018 David Dalle Farewell to adventurous American trombonist Roswell Rudd; Afro-funk; breathtaking old recordings from Malawi; Jazz in Morocco
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Dec. 28, 2017 David Dalle My favourite releases of 2017
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Dec. 21, 2017 David Dalle Winter Solstice, journey from darkness to light with Shostakovich's 14th symphony
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Dec. 14, 2017 Matthew & Janis Filling in for David Dalle
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Dec. 7, 2017 David Dalle A very personal show with Beethoven at his most mystical and transcendent, and other of my most profound musical favourites.
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Nov. 30, 2017 David Dalle The great Egyptian singer Sheikh Yasin Al-Tuhami. One of the most prominent exponents of Sufi Munshidin in Egypt, extremely popular traditions which are very rarely heard outside Egypt.
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Nov. 23, 2017 David Dalle A Tale of Two Revolutions: Shostakovich and his Symphony no. 11 'The Year 1905'
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Nov. 16, 2017 David Dalle Keith Jarrett, Ferrara, October 25, 1996
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Nov. 9, 2017 David Dalle Rescued Treasure with The Semer Ensemble, led by master musician Alan Bern, with Lorin Sklamberg, playing lovingly resurrected Jewish repertoire from 1930's Berlin. They are performing this in Ottawa tonight.
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Nov. 2, 2017 David Dalle Funding Drive II! Let's explode your ears and open your wallets with some brand new Soca, Klezmer, big brass, East-African funk and a world of music!!
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Oct. 26, 2017 David Dalle Funding Drive week 1!! Enjoy some of my favourites while I beg for money!
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Oct. 19, 2017 David Dalle Tribute to Augustin Mawangu Mingiedi of Kinshasha's Konono No. 1. New music from Constantinople and Kamancello, Andras Schiff and Bach and more.
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Oct. 12, 2017 David Dalle Kamancello performing live in studio! Speaking with Kiya Tabassian of Constantinople and their upcoming 4 part concert series. A look at the NAC's Ideas of North Festival.
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Oct. 5, 2017 David Dalle Shostakovich steps out of Stalin's shadow: his 10th symphony.
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Sep. 28, 2017 David Dalle Kronos Quartet goes to Mali, with their brand new collaboration with Trio Da Kali. Discovering a lost world of pre-Civil War Somalian popular music from the 1970's and 80's. New York-based Carnatic music group Akshara.
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Sep. 21, 2017 David Dalle Guest pianist and composer Frank Horvat, an Ottawa native, joins me today to talk about his ambitious project, releasing four new albums in four days this week.
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Sep. 14, 2017 David Dalle Dastan Ensemble with singer Mahdieh Mohammadkhani. Hamid Motebassem, leader of Dastan, will be accompanying Mahdieh Mohammadkhani in Ottawa Friday evening.
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Sep. 7, 2017 David Dalle Shostakovich and joyful resistance: his 9th symphony
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Aug. 31, 2017 David Dalle Two fascinating Chinese influenced experimental albums. One with electronics composer David Shea, the other with jazz pianist Randy Weston.
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Aug. 24, 2017 David Dalle New Afrofunk from Chicago and D.C. A look at the Ottawa Palestinian Festival. New music from Persian singer Katayoun Goudarzi & sitarist Shujaat Hussain Khan. Rare music from Benjamin Godard.
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Aug. 17, 2017 David Dalle Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan annual memorial show. 20th anniversary of the death of the peerless artist. The Partition of India.
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Aug. 10, 2017 David Dalle Shostakovich and war: his tragic, epic, and ultimately ambivalent 8th symphony. Philip Glass. Kinan Azmeh.
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Aug. 3, 2017 David Dalle Wonderful Cuban-Algerian-Jewish and Cuban-Flamenco collaborations. One of my favourite works by Brahms. Syrian clarinettist Kinan Azmeh.
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Jul. 27, 2017 David Dalle A look at my top 3 picks from the Chamberfest: all adventurous late-night concerts including Syrian clarinettist Kinan Azmeh, the Swiss Piano Trio, Canadian cellist and composer Cris Derksen
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Jul. 20, 2017 David Dalle Remembering the great Malagasy accordionist Regis Gizavo, from his debut album to his brand new release; Kudsi Erguner with one of his most interesting projects, fusing jazz with Mevlevi Sufi music.
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Jul. 13, 2017 David Dalle Ethiopian pianist Girma Yifrashewa composing music for the piano based on his love of both Ethiopian music and western classical tradition.
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Jul. 6, 2017 David Dalle Music & Beyond highlights: interview with Stepan Jezek of the Bennewitz Quartet; Ensemble Constantinople; pianist Garrick Ohlsson
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Jun. 29, 2017 David Dalle African, Roma, Latin, Jazz, funk and other grooves for an early start to your long weekend. Kronos Quartet in Ottawa!
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Jun. 22, 2017 David Dalle "A day when a single piece of Russian music drowned all of Hitler's guns". Shostakovich's 7th symphony, his epic, wartime symphony's unexpected life as Soviet genius for propaganda meets American genius for marketing.
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Jun. 15, 2017 David Dalle From the vaults of Tony Daye. I have recently acquired a treasure trove of music from Tony Daye, long time CKCU host and founder of This Island Earth. We will dive into this enormous variety of music from all over the world.
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Jun. 8, 2017 David Dalle Planet Squeezebox II: Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tuur's "Prophecy" for accordion and orchestra, new Nigerian afro-pop Sonia Aimy, Oumou Sangare's new album, music from Morocco and more.
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Jun. 1, 2017 David Dalle Planet Squeezebox I: The thrilling collaboration between Finnish accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen and the Kronos Quartet.
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May. 25, 2017 mark Mostly Finland, but not entirely
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May. 18, 2017 David Dalle Sorrow and Joy: Shostakovich's 6th symphony
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May. 11, 2017 David Dalle Two great adventurous and complementary works for 13 and 15 instruments. Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra with their landmark 1969 album and Alban Berg's 1925 Chamber Concerto for piano, violin, and 13 wind instruments. More Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.
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May. 4, 2017 David Dalle Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, the great master of the Mohan Veena, his modified guitar which allows him to play the full range of shrutis in Hindustani music, in a live recording of Rag Poorvi. Les Amazones d'Afrique, the West African female supergroup.
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Apr. 27, 2017 David Dalle Apocalypse Live: The Master Musicians of Jajouka in concert with Bill Laswell and his Material ensemble
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Apr. 20, 2017 David Dalle Orchestre Baobab with their first new album in nearly a decade! Some Highlife classics from Ghana, more Cuban music, Ethiopian piano and more.
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Apr. 13, 2017 David Dalle The Passion of Shostakovich: Shostakovich's 5th symphony and the birth of a secret dissident.
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Apr. 6, 2017 David Dalle Off to the desert with the fantastic new album from Tinariwen; Hindusthani music on the piano(!) with Utsav Lal; Afro-Cuban All Stars celebrating 20 years
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Mar. 30, 2017 David Dalle Fear and Loathing in Leningrad: Shostakovich's 4th symphony. The world comes crashing down on the young composer.
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Mar. 23, 2017 David Dalle Quintessentially Canadian music for my show, with Christos Hatzis' 2nd String Quartet
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Mar. 16, 2017 David Dalle New Jazz music from Norway and Sweden, New York; Hungarian, Moroccan music, and Monteverdi.
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Mar. 9, 2017 David Dalle "It's my birthday and I will play what I want to" and I will self-indulge with a gigantic and rare piano piece, Ronald Stevenson's homage to Shostakovich, "Passacaglia on DSCH"
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Mar. 2, 2017 David Dalle Les Amazones d'Afrique, a new supergroup of West African women; my favourite Iranian singer Shahram Nazeri; new music from Tunisia; Italian jazz
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Feb. 23, 2017 David Dalle A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Communist: Shostakovich's 2nd and 3rd symphonies
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Feb. 16, 2017 David Dalle Spanish guitar with Pepe Romero and family, Palestinian and Moroccan Oud, Senegalese classics
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Feb. 9, 2017 David Dalle Joyous and danceable music from Cameroon, Senegal, Spain and elsewhere
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Feb. 2, 2017 David Dalle Music from banned peoples - from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somali, Sudan, Libya.
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Jan. 26, 2017 David Dalle Farewell to Estonia's great national composer Veljo Tormis who died this past week.
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Jan. 19, 2017 David Dalle Keith Jarrett, Modena, October 23, 1996.
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Jan. 12, 2017 David Dalle Starting my Dmitri Shostakovich symphonic cycle. His 15 symphonies encapture the extraordinary collision between one of European music's most revered forms and one of history's most oppressive and destructive societies.
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Jan. 5, 2017 David Dalle A musical journey starting and ending with reflections on Robert Schumann from his wife Clara and protégé Brahms; classical Afghan music from Homayun Sakhi
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Dec. 29, 2016 David Dalle 2016 Favourites
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Dec. 22, 2016 David Dalle My annual program for the winter solstice, a musical journey from darkness to light. This year the darkness comes from a radical and unique performance of Schubert's Death and the Maiden.
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Dec. 15, 2016 David Dalle Farewell to Esma Redzepova, the legendary Romani singer; concluding the Penderecki symphonic cycle with his 8th Symphony "Songs of Transience"
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Dec. 8, 2016 David Dalle A retrospective of Pauline Oliveros' long career with electronic music from the 1960's to her last live performance in Ottawa 2013. Music from Bosnian singer Amir Medunjanin, Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov and more.
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Dec. 1, 2016 David Dalle Tribute to Pauline Oliveros, the radically gifted composer, performer, philosopher, who died last week. Music from Finnish Kimmo Pohjonen, Schubert, Cuban music.
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Nov. 24, 2016 David Dalle Penderecki's 7th symphony "Seven Gates of Jerusalem"; new Jazz from Mark Dresser and his septet; Latin-Jazz-Klezmer fusion from Roberto Juan Rodriguez; Tanya Tagaq
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Nov. 17, 2016 David Dalle "Andalusia of Love". A wonderful new album from Lebanese composer, oud player and singer Marcel Khalife, singing of love, pain, and loss in a poem by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
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Nov. 10, 2016 David Dalle Zoltan Kocsis and his superb recording of late, experimental Liszt, and finishing off the last 2 years of my funding drive recap of my 22 years on-air.
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Nov. 3, 2016 David Dalle Funding drive! An epic recap of 22 years on-air part II: a choice album for every year 2002-2016.
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Oct. 27, 2016 David Dalle Funding drive! An epic recap of 22 years on-air part I. With a choice album for every year 1994-2001.
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Oct. 20, 2016 David Dalle Persian and Kurdish music with the Shaho Andilibi, Shila Nahrvar and ensemble who will be performing in Ottawa. Penderecki's triumphant 5th symphony.
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Oct. 13, 2016 David Dalle French-Egyptian Oud player Mohamed Abozekry with a return to his Egyptian roots in a pared-down album celebrating Egyptian café music. Also more from Tanya Tagaq's new release "Retribution".
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Oct. 6, 2016 David Dalle A Wagnerian afternoon with endless longing, infinite desire. Celebrating Steve Reich's 80th birthday.
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Sep. 29, 2016 David Dalle Music of Lubomyr Melnyk III. Tanya Tagaq's Retribution.
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Sep. 22, 2016 David Dalle Ibrahim Maalouf and his transcription of Oum Kalthoum's "Alf Leila Wa Leila" for jazz quintet
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Sep. 15, 2016 David Dalle Oum Kalthoum sings one of her legendary songs.
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Sep. 8, 2016 David Dalle The Hawniyaz Quartet, a tremendous meeting of Kayhan Kalhor, Salman Gambarov, Cemil Qocgiri and Aynur Dogan. Persian, Azeri, Kurdish music and song.
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Sep. 1, 2016 David Dalle Continuing with the Penderecki symphony cycle and his 4th symphony. Also music from eastern and southern Europe, and a Gloomy Sunday.
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Aug. 25, 2016 David Dalle New piano music and differing shades of trumpet. Palestinian music.
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Aug. 18, 2016 David Dalle Annual Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan memorial show. Music from Amjad Sabri, a leading light of Qawwali who was assassinated in June.
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Aug. 11, 2016 David Dalle A look back at an older favourite, Kayhan Kalhor and Ali Akbar Moradi, new European Jazz, Vieux Farka Toure and other African music.
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Aug. 4, 2016 David Dalle A big raga on the sitar with Ustad Vilayat Khan and Indian Jazz fusion with the Aditya Prakash Ensemble
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Jul. 28, 2016 David Dalle Music of Bach as well as some contemporary reworking of Bach's music with Christos Hatzis' "Overscript: Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra
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Jul. 21, 2016 David Dalle Homayoun Shajarian with Mohammad-Reza Darvishi; new jazz recorded live in Ljubljana, Slovenia with the Carate Urio Orchestra and in New York City with Cortex; Lebanese music; Mozart with Christina Petrowska-Quilico and Jacques Israelievitch
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Jul. 14, 2016 David Dalle Black Lives Matter
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Jul. 7, 2016 David Dalle Dreaming of musical festivals in the south of France...
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Jun. 30, 2016 David Dalle Fanfare Ciocarlia: let them blow, let them roar!
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Jun. 23, 2016 David Dalle Music of immigrants, emigrants, diasporas and aficionados with Ethiopian music from Boston, Afrojazz from Helsinki, Congolese guitar infused with South Indian music from Minneapolis. New music from Steve Reich and a tragic farewell to Amjad Sabri.
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Jun. 16, 2016 David Dalle Colin Stetson's "Sorrow - a reimagining of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony"
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Jun. 9, 2016 David Dalle Christos Hatzis' "Constantinople" for Piano Trio, Soprano, Arabic soloist, electronics
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Jun. 2, 2016 David Dalle Fanfare Ciocarlia from obscurity in rural Romania to world domination
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May. 26, 2016 David Dalle rare Persian Sufi music with Mohammad Reza Lotfi; rare Cuban piano; Marc-André Hamelin & Mozart
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May. 19, 2016 David Dalle Music of Lubomyr Melnyk II
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May. 12, 2016 David Dalle Gorecki's 4th Symphony; solo ney with Hossein Omoumi
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May. 5, 2016 David Dalle Persian classical with Parissa, Said Farajpoori, Hossein Behroozinia; Hindusthani classical vocal from Lahore with Ustad Bary Fateh Ali Khan
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Apr. 28, 2016 David Dalle Penderecki's 3rd symphony, a few princes, music from Lahore, Pakistan
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Apr. 21, 2016 Matthew & Aardvark filling in
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Apr. 14, 2016 David Dalle French-Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf and his jazz tribute to Oum Kalthoum; new album from Bombino; Nana Vasconcelos
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Apr. 7, 2016 David Dalle Penderecki symphony cycle; Polish and Klezmer music; Getatchew Mekurya
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Mar. 31, 2016 David Dalle Traversing the globe with new releases from Eliades Ochora, Kaoru Watanabe, Msafiri Zawose, Rajab Suleiman and more
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Mar. 24, 2016 David Dalle Krzyzstof Penderecki's St Luke Passion
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Mar. 17, 2016 David Dalle A retrospective of Nana Vasconcelos and Ali Farka Toure; Sam Shalabi & Stefan Christoff; a bit of Irish music
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Mar. 10, 2016 PeterB PeterB hosts today, with a collection of "new classical" picks -- whatever that means. Terry Riley Mali style, random new age mixtures, Frank Zappa, and George Martin.
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Mar. 3, 2016 Matthew filling in
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Feb. 25, 2016 David Dalle Cuba & Nigeria: the Yoruba connection
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Feb. 18, 2016 David Dalle Cuban Night in France: Chucho Valdes leads a captivating tribute to his legendary band Irakere in the Marciac Jazz Festival
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Feb. 11, 2016 David Dalle Cuban Night in Japan: Omar Sosa live in Yokohama
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Feb. 4, 2016 David Dalle The three greatest Mandé singers of their generation: Bako Dagnon, Kandia Kouyaté, Kassé Mady Diabaté
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Jan. 28, 2016 David Dalle Christos Hatzis, Tanya Tagaq; lament for the North
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Jan. 21, 2016 David Dalle Dastan Ensemble with Madhieh Mohammadkhani; Ice music from Norway; Wu Man
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Jan. 14, 2016 David Dalle Music of death and decay; conductor and composer Pierre Boulez
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Jan. 7, 2016 David Dalle Guest, composer Christos Hatzis and his masterwork "Going Home Star", a ballet about the Indian residential schools.
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Dec. 31, 2015 David Dalle Oscar, With Love, and a look at my 2015 favourites
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Dec. 24, 2015 David Dalle Darkness to Light; beginning Penderecki's symphony cycle
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Dec. 17, 2015 David Dalle The Music of Lubomyr Melnyk Part I
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Dec. 10, 2015 David Dalle New releases; Rajasthan/​Turkish/​Swedish/​Bengali fusion; Sibelius' 150th birthday
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Dec. 3, 2015 David Dalle The Tallis Scholars and Arvo Part; Shahram Nazeri
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Nov. 26, 2015 David Dalle Remembering Ron Hynes, North & South Indian classical with Gaurav Mazumdar and Jayanthi Kumaresh
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Nov. 19, 2015 David Dalle More from Shujaat Husain Khan & Katayoun Goudarzi; Beethoven; music from Western Sahara, Algeria, France, Lebanon.
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Nov. 12, 2015 David Dalle CKCU's 40th Birthday; Shujaat Husain Khan & Katayoun Goudarzi
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Nov. 5, 2015 David Dalle Funding Drive 2!!!
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Oct. 29, 2015 David Dalle FUNDING DRIVE!!!
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Oct. 22, 2015 David Dalle Sheikh Ahmed Al Tuni; joyful music from Africa, Europe and more
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Oct. 15, 2015 David Dalle Celebrating the Blue Jays' win and star José Bautista with music from the Dominican Republic; also music from Morocco, South Africa, Madagascar, Bach and more
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Oct. 8, 2015 David Dalle Derek Charke's Tundra Songs for the Kronos Quartet and Tanya Tagaq
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Oct. 1, 2015 David Dalle Wide range of Apocalyptic Balkan music; Indo-Arabic, Indo-Canadian, fusions, funk and jazz, Norway and Wagner
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Sep. 24, 2015 David Dalle Profound and beautiful music from Iran and Nepal with Hossein Alizadeh & Pejman Hadadi, Nepalese classical group Sur Sudha
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Sep. 17, 2015 David Dalle Contemporary Persian music for violin and computer; Mahdieh Mohammad-Khani; Ambi Subramaniam
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Sep. 10, 2015 David Dalle Dastan Ensemble, Vijay Iyer Trio
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Sep. 3, 2015 David Dalle Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal's brand new album; explosive Carnatic violinist L. Subramaniam
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Aug. 27, 2015 David Dalle Jazz with Assif Tsahar; Philip Glass; Jack de Johnette & Foday Musa Suso; Doudou N'diaye Rose & Senegal
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Aug. 20, 2015 David Dalle Annual Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan tribute show; tribute to Doudou N'diaye Rose
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Aug. 13, 2015 David Dalle New music from Mali with Terakaft, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba; one supreme musician's tribute to another.
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Aug. 6, 2015 David Dalle Amarrass Desert Music Festival with music from Mali and Rajasthan
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Jul. 30, 2015 David Dalle Speaking with the JACK Quartet, music of John Luther Adams, Georg Friedrich Haas
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Jul. 23, 2015 David Dalle Capital Ukrainian Festival; André Laplante and Franz Liszt; Ljova and the Kontraband
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Jul. 16, 2015 David Dalle Guest Geoff Nuttall, first violinist of the St. Lawrence String Quartet speaking about Haydn and the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival
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Jul. 9, 2015 David Dalle Mathieu Lussier's Mexican-inspired trumpet concerto; other meanderings in tango and Spanish impressionism; Swedish Azz; Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Ghulam Hassan Shaggan
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Jul. 2, 2015 David Dalle Looking back to some great Jazz festival highlights and forwards to Music and Beyond
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Jun. 25, 2015 David Dalle Global jazz fusion with Jean-Pierre Smadja, sitar with Kartik Seshadri, Mozart with Marc-Andre Hamelin and more
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Jun. 18, 2015 David Dalle Fatoumata Diawara & Roberto Fonesca in a fantastic new Mali-Cuban concert recording; Nadina Mackie Jackson with Canadian bassoon concertos
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Jun. 11, 2015 David Dalle Guest composer Constantine Caravassilis live in studio
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Jun. 4, 2015 David Dalle New release from Toronto Flamenco-Mediterranean ensemble Ventanas; some Jazz Festival highlights and more
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May. 28, 2015 David Dalle Ludovico Einaudi Taranta Project; Southern Italian folk music meets Mali
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May. 21, 2015 DJ DesTrois Music from: Alanis Obomsawin, Alice Coltrane, Annette Peacock, Brigitte Fontaine, Don Cherry, Ersen, Exuma, Fela, Madredeus, Sun Ra...
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May. 14, 2015 David Dalle Music of Estonia: Beyond Arvo Part; Kronos Quartet and Tanya Tagaq in Derek Charke's "Tundra Songs"
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May. 7, 2015 David Dalle Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Bruckner; Canadian composer Kevin Lau
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Apr. 30, 2015 David Dalle Three new albums, two rich in improvised and multicultural encounters and one stretching back over four decades of a legendary career from Southern Africa.
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Apr. 23, 2015 David Dalle Armenian, Syrian, Iraqi music including an extremely rare recording of the Armenian community in Aleppo, Syria.
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Apr. 16, 2015 David Dalle Songs by women in the Holocaust; Shostakovich's 13th symphony 'Babi Yar'; new Roma music from Taraf de Haidouks
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Apr. 9, 2015 David Dalle Music for a Frozen Land Part III: The Great Thaw
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Apr. 2, 2015 David Dalle Music for Passover and Good Friday with Yom; Arvo Part
Mar. 26, 2015 David Dalle Hindusthani vocal with Bhimsen Joshi; Schubert's last sonata with Paul Lewis
Mar. 19, 2015 David Dalle Invoking Spring
Mar. 12, 2015 David Dalle The BKO Quintet from Bamako and other mostly African music
Mar. 5, 2015 David Dalle Anouar Brahem's new album "Souvenance"
Feb. 26, 2015 David Dalle new albums from the Chemirani Trio, Omar Sosa & Quarteto AfroCubano, Oscar musings and Mozart...
Feb. 19, 2015 David Dalle Lots of new music with Reggae from Ghana, Fado from Portugal, University of Gnawa from Morocco and more
Feb. 12, 2015 David Dalle Music for a Frozen Land Part II
Feb. 5, 2015 David Dalle Moroccan Berber music with Rayssa Fatima Tabaamrant; music from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Azerbaijan, Mohammed Fairouz and more
Jan. 29, 2015 David Dalle Jane Bunnett, Kiya and Ziya Tabassian, Constantine Caravassilis and more
Jan. 22, 2015 David Dalle Record producer Christopher King joins me to talk about his lovingly reissued album of Alexis Zoumbas
Jan. 15, 2015 David Dalle Ahmad Jamal & Yusef Lateef live in Paris
Jan. 8, 2015 David Dalle Music for a Frozen Land Part I
Jan. 1, 2015 David Dalle Some of my favourites from 2014 and other music from Ethiopia, Egypt, Mali, Morocco and more
Dec. 25, 2014 David Dalle Liszt's meditations on Christ
Dec. 18, 2014 David Dalle Schubert's Dark Night of the Soul
Dec. 11, 2014 David Dalle Wide mix of old and new releases including Ghazal, Parisian afrofunk, Salar Aghili, new Marc-Andre Hamelin.
Dec. 4, 2014 Dave & Matthew filling in
Nov. 27, 2014 David Dalle The Silence of Exodus
Nov. 20, 2014 David Dalle Persian music with Salar Aghili; Carnatic-Hindusthani-Rajasthani-Jazz fusions with Shashank, Arun Ramamurthy
Nov. 13, 2014 David Dalle Ahmad Jamal's quartet in concert; new album from Lo'Jo; WWI music from Brazil
Nov. 6, 2014 David Dalle Funding Drive!! Too much talk and music from Morocco, Ethiopia, Egypt, Portugal, Greece, India, Congo, Mali and more!
Oct. 30, 2014 David Dalle Funding drive!! Greatest hits and music for Halloween!
Oct. 23, 2014 David Dalle Celebrating 20 years on CKCU with an all 1994 program!
Oct. 16, 2014 David Dalle John Luther Adams, Tanya Tagaq, Schnittke's Beethoven
Oct. 9, 2014 David Dalle DakhaBrakha, Abelardo Barroso, Schubert, Troker, many unsual combinations of brass, funk, jazz, folk
Oct. 2, 2014 David Dalle Breaking Bad - the Opera
Sep. 25, 2014 David Dalle Waed Bouhassoun on oud and singing; contemporary take on Moravian folk music; Kiran Ahluwalia's new album
Sep. 18, 2014 David Dalle Variations on the Jazz Trio and the Carnatic Violin with new albums from the Fred Hersch Trio, the Arun Ramamurthy Trio, and a stunning recording from L. Subramaniam
Sep. 11, 2014 David Dalle Penderecki's Piano Concerto 'Resurrection'; Toronto Jazz-Klezmer group Zebrina; Peter Sculthorpe; Warren Cuccurullo and Ustad Sultan Khan
Sep. 4, 2014 David Dalle Hommage à Oum Kalsoum; Lili Boniche; Cumbia All-Stars
Aug. 28, 2014 David Dalle Sheikh Yasin al-Tuhami; Salif Keita
Aug. 21, 2014 David Dalle Rare sufi music from the Mevlevi sufis from Konya, the famed Whirling Dervishes
Aug. 14, 2014 David Dalle Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, I miss you
Aug. 7, 2014 David Dalle Rare sufi music with Sheikh Ahmad al-Barrayn; Bach, Xenakis, Charlie Haden
Jul. 31, 2014 David Dalle Guest Christina Petrowska-Quilico discusses her upcoming Ottawa concert
Jul. 24, 2014 David Dalle Chamber Music Festival: Bach and his influence with guest Pemi Paull
Jul. 17, 2014 David Dalle Aissaoua Sufis from Morocco; Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden; Bach
Jul. 10, 2014 David Dalle The continuing adventures of Taraf de Haidouks; Music from Argentina, Germany
Jul. 3, 2014 David Dalle Contemporary Lebanese music; Mali; Schubert
Jun. 26, 2014 David Dalle Part II looking at Nana Vasconcelos; new music from Toumani Diabate, Noura Mint Seymali
Jun. 19, 2014 David Dalle Music from the Five Africans; Villa-Lobos' 7th symphony; Autorickshaw
Jun. 12, 2014 David Dalle Brazil: Samba and Football
Jun. 5, 2014 David Dalle Old and new music from Northeastern Brazil: Forro, Choros, Candomblé of Salvador; Music of Heitor Villa-Lobos
May. 29, 2014 David Dalle & PeterB Frank Zappa's explorations in classical idioms, music from Madagascar, Nuevo Tango
May. 22, 2014 David Dalle Part I of a look at Nana Vasconcelos; new album from Tinariwen, Astor Piazzolla's explorations in funk
May. 15, 2014 David Dalle The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind; French Gypsy group Bratsch, the ghost of Astor Piazzolla
May. 8, 2014 David Dalle Farewell to Mohammad Reza Lotfi
May. 1, 2014 David Dalle Hafez Nazeri's Rumi Symphony Project, Mozart
Apr. 24, 2014 David Dalle Syrian-Iranian musical collaborations, music from Algeria and Columbia
Apr. 17, 2014 David Dalle Osvaldo Golijov's Pasion Segun San Marcos
Apr. 10, 2014 David Dalle Hossein Alizadeh & Pejman Hadadi; Ian Tamblyn's new album The Labrador; Serouj Kradjian's "Trobairitz Ysabella"
Apr. 3, 2014 David Dalle Contemporary urban music from Sao Paulo, Brazil; classics from Tabu Ley, and some stuff I've heard on Ryan's Thursday morning show
Mar. 27, 2014 David Dalle Hossein Alizadeh live in concert
Mar. 20, 2014 David Dalle Celebrating Nowruz with Dastan ensemble with Iraj Bastami, Shahram Nazeri & Ensemble Alizadeh
Mar. 13, 2014 David Dalle Hassan Hakmoun, Habib Koite, Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, Souljazz Orchestra; a great mix of Moroccan, West African, Brazilian, Turkish, and Jazz!
Mar. 6, 2014 David Dalle Keith Jarrett, Brooklyn Rider
Feb. 27, 2014 David Dalle Keith Jarrett, Catherine Russell, Souljazz Orchestra, Paco de Lucia
Feb. 20, 2014 David Dalle New cross-cultural collaborations
Feb. 13, 2014 David Dalle Ottawa Symphony Orchestra's upcoming concert with Giya Kancheli
Feb. 6, 2014 David Dalle Thinking of the Sochi Olympics
Jan. 30, 2014 David Dalle Adrian Raso & Fanfare Ciocarlia, Claudio Abaddo and Mahler
Jan. 23, 2014 David Dalle The Musical Voyages of Marco Polo
Jan. 16, 2014 David Dalle Christina Petrowska Quilico and the Brazilian tangos of Ernesto Nazareth
Jan. 9, 2014 David Dalle Rare recordings from India, Algeria and more.
Jan. 2, 2014 David Dalle World Cup 2014: Brazil! Monobloco, Villa-Lobos, Ralph Alessi and more!
Dec. 29, 2013 David Dalle Hossein Alizadeh, Liszt
Dec. 26, 2013 David Dalle Winter Recomposed, music from Tanzania, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Mali and more
Dec. 19, 2013 David Dalle From Darkness to Light; Schnittke's 9th symphony
Dec. 12, 2013 David Dalle Celebrating two great Africans: Nelson Mandela and Tabu Ley Rochereau
Dec. 5, 2013 David Dalle Live recording of Madou Sidiki Diabaté, Benjamin Britten's 2nd string quartet, and more
Nov. 28, 2013 David Dalle Schnittke's 8th symphony; Sidi Touré; music from Mali, Niger, Corsica and more
Nov. 21, 2013 David Dalle Kayhan Kalhor in concert at the Smithsonian; Music of John Tavener
Nov. 14, 2013 David Dalle The Manganiyar Seduction, Sibelius' 5th symphony
Nov. 7, 2013 David Dalle Funding drive show 2
Oct. 31, 2013 David Dalle FUNDING DRIVE
Oct. 24, 2013 David Dalle Music from a shattered world - music from Aleppo, Syria
Oct. 17, 2013 David Dalle Brass with Boban & Marko Markovic Okestar, the Jaipur Kawa Brass Band; Schnittke's 7th symphony
Oct. 10, 2013 David Dalle Kamancheh from Iran, Rajasthan from Kayhan Kalhor, Sakar Khan
Oct. 3, 2013 David Dalle Persian and Japanese music live at the Smithsonian with Bahman Panahi, Yumi Kurosawa
Sep. 26, 2013 David dalle Vivaldi Recomposed: Fall; music from Iran; L. Subramaniam
Sep. 19, 2013 David Dalle Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening; recent African releases; Wagner
Sep. 12, 2013 David Dalle Alfred Schnittke's 6th symphony; new music from Chucho Valdes, Mulatu Astatke, Ahmad Jamal and more
Sep. 5, 2013 David Dalle Kayhan Kalhor, Jayme Stone, classic Ghanian afrofunk
Aug. 29, 2013 David Dalle Morton Feldman's violin concerto, music from Africa, Vietnam and more
Aug. 22, 2013 David Dalle Amin Al-Dishnawi, new music from Niger, Ablaye Cissoko with Volker Goetze, Debussy
Aug. 15, 2013 David Dalle Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan memorial show
Aug. 8, 2013 David dalle Ablaye Cissoko, Kiya and Ziya Tabassian, Theodore Dubois
Aug. 1, 2013 David Dalle The JACK Quartet, Xenakis, guest Gary Kulesha
Jul. 25, 2013 David Dalle Medtner's Night Wind sonata with Marc-André Hamelin
Jul. 18, 2013 David Dalle Marc-Andre Hamelin: A survey
Jul. 11, 2013 David Dalle Umm Kulthum, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Xenakis at the Chamberfest and more
Jul. 4, 2013 Matthew
Jun. 27, 2013 David Dalle New releases from Kenya, Niger, Mali, Israel and more
Jun. 20, 2013 David Dalle New album from Keith Jarrett trio and Vivaldi Recomposed
Jun. 13, 2013 David Dalle Ottawa Jazz Festival; Romeo Scaccia meets Kocani Orkestar
Jun. 6, 2013 David Dalle Alfred Schnittke's Concerto Grosso No. 4/​Symphony No. 5
May. 30, 2013 David Dalle Music from the Himalayans and inspired by mountains and mountain climbing
May. 27, 2013 David Dalle
May. 16, 2013 David Dalle Kronos Quartet with Homayun Sakhi, Alim & Fargana Qasimov; Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
May. 9, 2013 David Dalle Guest conductor Marco Parisotto discussing music and Stravinksy's Rite of Spring; Music from Central Asia
May. 2, 2013 David Dalle Music of Constantine Caravassilis, Janos Starker playing Kodaly, Hungarian folk music and cross-cultural collaborations in Central Asia.
Apr. 18, 2013 David Dalle 3-hour edition with Vivaldi Recomposed, Pandit Jasraj, Moroccan, Klezmer and more
Apr. 11, 2013 David Dalle Three hour edition; a lot of music from Africa; musical commentary on Margaret Thatcher and more
Apr. 4, 2013 David Dalle New music from Oliver Mtukudzi, Ballake Sissoko, Bassekou Kouyate. Improvisation from Hossein Alizadeh and Pejman Hadadi
Mar. 28, 2013 David Dalle Alfred Schnittke's 4th symphony; The Passion according to Peter Gabriel, Egypt, Sigur Ros
Mar. 21, 2013 David Dalle Alfred Schnittke's 3rd symphony; Sigur Ros
Mar. 14, 2013 David Dalle Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, music from Syria and some jazz
Mar. 7, 2013 David Dalle Festival in the Desert
Feb. 28, 2013 David Dalle Alfred Schnittke's 2nd symphony; Wagner's Parsifal
Feb. 21, 2013 David Dalle Violin concertos of Magnus Lindberg and Peteris Vasks
Feb. 14, 2013 David Dalle Guest Constantine Caravassilis speaking about his music
Feb. 7, 2013 David Dalle Music of Constantine Caravassilis with guest Christina Petrowska Quilico
Jan. 31, 2013 David Dalle Music of Fred Hersch
Jan. 24, 2013 Dylan Hunter (FILLING IN FOR DAVID DALLE) ADDITIONALFUNDINGFORTHEARTSISNOTOPTIONAL
Jan. 17, 2013 David Dalle Mali; Alfred Schnittke's 1st symphony
Jan. 10, 2013 David Dalle Tribute to Jacques Emond
Jan. 3, 2013 David Dalle Balinese Barong ritual dance, percussion from China, India; Berlioz's Les Troyens
Dec. 27, 2012 David Dalle Sibelius 7th symphony and danceable music from around the world
Dec. 20, 2012 David Dalle From Darkness, Light; Mahler's posthumous 10th symphony
Dec. 13, 2012 David Dalle Ravi Shankar; a celebration.
Dec. 6, 2012 David Dalle Dave Brubeck, Hermann Goetz; music from Africa, Central Asia and more
Nov. 29, 2012 David Dalle Sibelius 6th symphony; Egyptian music
Nov. 22, 2012 David Dalle Joubran brothers, Qawwali, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, and Mozart
Nov. 15, 2012 David Dalle Shostakovich's 12 symphony
Nov. 8, 2012 David Dalle Elliott Carter
Nov. 1, 2012 David Dalle FUNDING DRIVE2!!!
Oct. 25, 2012 David Dalle FUNDING DRIVE!!
Oct. 18, 2012 David Dalle Kushal Das, rare Bach piano transcriptions, favourites from African and elsewhere
Oct. 11, 2012 David Dalle New releases from West Africa, piano from Scriabin and Chopin, classical sitar with Kartik Seshadri
Sep. 27, 2012 David Dalle Mumford & Sons Babel, Marcel Khalife, George Enescu
Sep. 20, 2012 David Dalle Brass, Bach, Salar Aghili
Sep. 13, 2012 David Dalle Kayhan Kalhor Scattering Stars Like Dust
Sep. 6, 2012 David Dalle Sibelius 5th symphony, more brass
Aug. 30, 2012 David Dalle New releases from Congo, Benin; Canadiana and brass
Aug. 23, 2012 David Dalle upcoming concerts from Fanfare Ciocarlia and Salar Aghili
Aug. 16, 2012 David Dalle Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, 15 years on...
Aug. 9, 2012 David Dalle All African
Aug. 2, 2012 David Dalle String Quartets from Beethoven to Scelsi to Ali-zadeh
Jul. 26, 2012 David Dalle Ottawa Chamber Music Festival highlights
Jul. 19, 2012 David Dalle Sibelius symphony no. 4, music from Syria
Jul. 12, 2012 David Dalle Mamak Khadem, Beethoven and more
Jul. 5, 2012 David Dalle Upcoming shows in Ottawa and Montreal
Jun. 28, 2012 David Dalle A profound meeting of Arab souls in the Oud, Piano, Percussion
Jun. 21, 2012 David Dalle Canadian Gharana Festival (Indian Classical Arts)
Jun. 14, 2012 David Dalle Celebrating Euro 2012 with music from Poland and Ukraine
Jun. 7, 2012 David Dalle Music from Germany and Spain; Anouar Brahem
May. 31, 2012 David Dalle Africa and Iran
May. 24, 2012 Allan Wigney & Matthew Crosier Bob Dylan 71st Birthday Show
May. 17, 2012 David Dalle New album from Amadou & Mariam; Parissa & Dastan Ensemble
May. 10, 2012 David Dalle Music from Azerbaijan, Beethoven, and more
May. 3, 2012 David Dalle Trumpet and strings
Apr. 26, 2012 David Dalle Continuing my Sibelius symphony cycle with Sibelius' 3rd symphony
Apr. 19, 2012 David Dalle Diversity in music; music from Southeast Asia, West Africa, Carribean, South America, The Balkans, Canada and more
Apr. 12, 2012 David Dalle Hindustani slide guitar of Debashish Bhattacharya, the Sinking of the Titanic
Apr. 5, 2012 David Dalle Bruckner's Mass in e minor; music from the Balkans, North and West Africa
Mar. 29, 2012 David Dalle Guest pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico and her recordings of composer Ann Southam
Mar. 22, 2012 David Dalle Sibelius's 2nd symphony and music from North and West Africa
Mar. 15, 2012 David Dalle The music that went into my new show promo
Mar. 8, 2012 David Dalle New Kronos Quartet album
Mar. 1, 2012 David Dalle Shashmaqam from Tajikistan
Feb. 23, 2012 David Dalle Music from Kyrgyzstan, India, Pakistan, Syria
Feb. 16, 2012 David Dalle The start of my Sibelius symphony cycle; music from Mali
Feb. 9, 2012 David Dalle Keith Jarret live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian music, Female singers from Mali
Feb. 2, 2012 David Dalle Jean-Philippe Collard, Shahram Nazeri, Don Pullen
Jan. 26, 2012 David Dalle Hossein Alizadeh and Pejman Hadadi
Jan. 19, 2012 David Dalle Concert recording from Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Hossein Alizadeh, Kayhan Kalhor, Homayoun Shajarian
Jan. 12, 2012 David Dalle Zarbang, Alan Hovhaness' 60th symphony, Goran Bregovic and more
Jan. 5, 2012 David Dalle Music from Senegal, Mali, and Hossein Alizadeh
Dec. 22, 2011 David Dalle Mahler's 9th symphony, Cesaria Evora
Dec. 15, 2011 David Dalle Over 1000 years of music from Constantinople-Istanbul
Dec. 8, 2011 David Dalle Ustad Sultan Khan
Dec. 1, 2011 David Dalle Music from Uzbekistan, Pakistan, India, Mali, Morocco, Hungary and more
Nov. 24, 2011 David Dalle Mahler's 8th symphony
Nov. 17, 2011 David Dalle All Hungarian show
Nov. 10, 2011 Matthew Crosier Musical Chameleons - Ry Cooder, VM Bhatt, Bob Brozman
Nov. 3, 2011 Matthew Crosier filling for Dave Liszt, Mahler and More - Funding Drive
Oct. 27, 2011 Matthew Crosier Funding Drive #1 - Afrobeat from Nigeria
Oct. 20, 2011 Matthew Crosier
Oct. 13, 2011 David Dalle Rajasthan to Brass, and Liszt's birthday
Oct. 6, 2011 Matthew Crosier
Sep. 29, 2011 David Dalle
Sep. 22, 2011 David Dalle
Sep. 15, 2011 David Dalle Orchestral music from the "East"
Sep. 8, 2011 David Dalle Battle of the Brass Bands and Mahler's 7th symphony
Sep. 1, 2011 Ron Steeds Trying to fill the big shoes of David Dalle
Aug. 25, 2011 David Dalle
Aug. 18, 2011 David Dalle Tribute to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Aug. 12, 2011 David Dalle
Aug. 11, 2011 David Dalle 2011 Mahler Cycle: Symphony no. 6 with Sir John Barbirolli
Aug. 4, 2011 David Dalle New music from Morocco
Jul. 28, 2011 David Dalle Franz Liszt and the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival
Jul. 21, 2011 David Dalle Shahid Parvez
Jul. 14, 2011 David Dalle FIFA's Women's World Cup
Jul. 7, 2011 David Dalle
Jun. 30, 2011 David Dalle
Jun. 23, 2011 David Dalle Mahler's 5th symphony with Leonard Bernstein; pianists appearing at the Ottawa Jazz Festival
Jun. 16, 2011 David Dalle
Jun. 9, 2011 David Dalle New music from Mali, new premiere recordings of lost music of Liszt
Jun. 2, 2011 Janis Lockwood Karol Szymanowki: 20 Mazurkas Opus 50
May. 26, 2011 Janis Lockwood Avro Part: Tabula Rasa
May. 19, 2011 David Dalle Mahler cycle: symphony no. 4
May. 12, 2011 David Dalle Mali, Cuba, Morroco, Spain
May. 5, 2011 David Dalle Mahler's 3rd symphony
Apr. 28, 2011 David Dalle New and recent music from Mali, Morocco, and one of the greatest Austrian composers you've never heard of
Apr. 21, 2011 David Dalle Liszt's St. Stanislaus
Apr. 14, 2011 David Dalle Parissa & Dastan Ensemble
Apr. 7, 2011 David Dalle Violins and Canadiana
Mar. 31, 2011 Ron Steeds Dave's fill-in this week
Mar. 24, 2011 David Dalle Mahler's 2nd
Mar. 17, 2011 David Dalle Threnody for Japan; music for St. Patrick's Day
Mar. 10, 2011 David Dalle New music from Ballaké Sissoko and other music from Mali and West Africa
Mar. 3, 2011 David Dalle Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Kodo, Liszt & Revolution
Feb. 24, 2011 David Dalle Music from Libya, Yemen, Bahrain. Gustav Mahler
Feb. 17, 2011 David Dalle
Feb. 10, 2011 David Dalle Umm Kulthum, Liszt to Philip Glass, Kodo
Feb. 3, 2011 David Dalle Egypt, Liszt & Beethoven
Jan. 27, 2011 David Dalle
Jan. 20, 2011 David Dalle Music from the Maghreb; Liszt and his Paginini connection
Jan. 13, 2011 David Dalle Liszt, his Hungarian connection
Jan. 6, 2011 David Dalle Beginning my Liszt year
Dec. 30, 2010 David Dalle Great Recordings of 2010
Dec. 23, 2010 David Dalle Journey from Darkness to Light
Dec. 16, 2010 David Dalle Tribue to Remmy Ongala
Dec. 9, 2010 David Dalle Ethiopia, Yemen, Armenia
Nov. 25, 2010 David Dalle
Nov. 18, 2010 David Dalle Tribute to Henyrk Gorecki
Nov. 11, 2010 David Dalle Remembrance Day
Nov. 4, 2010 David Dalle
Oct. 28, 2010 David Dalle
Oct. 21, 2010 David Dalle First recording of Arvo Part's latest work, his 4th Symphony
Oct. 14, 2010 David Dalle
Sep. 30, 2010 David Dalle
Sep. 23, 2010 David Dalle Dastan Ensemble 20th anniversary concert
Sep. 16, 2010 David Dalle Marc-André Hamelin plays his own etudes. Salar Aghili and Dastan Ensemble
Sep. 2, 2010 David Dalle
Aug. 19, 2010 David Dalle Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan memorial show
Aug. 5, 2010 David Dalle
Jul. 29, 2010 David Dalle
Jul. 15, 2010 David Dalle
Jul. 8, 2010 David Dalle Summer music festivals in Ottawa
Jul. 1, 2010 David Dalle
Jun. 24, 2010 David Dalle World Cup show 4
Jun. 17, 2010 David Dalle World Cup
Jun. 10, 2010 David Dalle World Cup show no. 2
Jun. 3, 2010 David Dalle The first of four June World Cup Programs
May. 20, 2010 David Dalle
May. 13, 2010 David Dalle New releases from Salif Keita, Cesaria Evora, Ana Moura and more
May. 6, 2010 David Dalle Mohammad Reza Shajarian concert recording
Apr. 29, 2010 David Dalle
Apr. 22, 2010 David Dalle New music from Sierra Leone, Brazil, and Tjadik classical maqam
Apr. 15, 2010 Daivd Dalle Music from the Maghreb
Apr. 8, 2010 David Dalle Brave Old World's Blood Oranges
Apr. 1, 2010 David Dalle
Mar. 25, 2010 David Dalle Master Musicians of Jajouka in concert
Mar. 18, 2010 David Dalle Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate
Mar. 4, 2010 Matthew Crosier
Feb. 25, 2010 David Dalle Chopin's 200th birthday
Feb. 18, 2010 David Dalle
Feb. 11, 2010 David Dalle
Feb. 4, 2010 David Dalle
Jan. 28, 2010 David Dalle Tribute to Earl Wild
Jan. 21, 2010 David Dalle
Jan. 14, 2010 David Dalle Keith Jarret London concert part 1
Jan. 7, 2010 David Dalle Upcoming Passage to Dawn concert

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