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Feb. 6, 2025 | David Dalle | Black History Month: Black, Brown and Beige Part I. Music from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Gabon, Ghana, Niger, Mali. |
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Jan. 30, 2025 | David Dalle | Marc-André Hamelin, where it all began. Amjad Ali Khan and Zakir Hussain. Mdou Moctar. |
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Jan. 23, 2025 | David Dalle | The centenary of Pierre Boulez; new Canadian music; Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita. |
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Jan. 16, 2025 | David Dalle | John Luther Adams' "Arctic Dreams"; two great kora players in Ottawa! |
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Jan. 9, 2025 | David Dalle | Bruckner symphony no. 9. Balkan Brass Battle with Fanfare Ciocarlia vs. Boban Markovic Orkestar. |
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Jan. 2, 2025 | David Dalle | Remembering Zakir Hussain. |
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Dec. 26, 2024 | David Dalle | 2024 favourites |
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Dec. 19, 2024 | David Dalle | Winter Solstice journey from darkness to light with Schubert and new Sun Ra Arkestra |
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Dec. 12, 2024 | David Dalle | 30 for 30. The final album, with clarinetist Yom. Syrian Sufi music and clarinet with Kinan Azmeh. |
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Dec. 5, 2024 | David Dalle | 30 for 30 with Bruckner Symphony No. 8 |
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Nov. 28, 2024 | David Dalle | Bruckner's 7th symphony. |
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Nov. 21, 2024 | David Dalle | Latest from Niger's premiere Tuareg wedding band Etran de L'Aïr; two cellists and Ukrainian sadness and joy! |
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Nov. 14, 2024 | David Dalle | "Lost" Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan |
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Nov. 7, 2024 | David Dalle | CKCU Funding Drive episode II: Stand up for multiculturalism, pluralism, diversity, our shared humanity! |
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Oct. 31, 2024 | David Dalle | CKCU Funding Drive episode I: 30 years on-air! |
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Oct. 24, 2024 | David Dalle | Ustad Shafqat Ali Khan in Ottawa! Mushfiq Hashimi joins me to talk about Shafqat's concert and his time performing with him in Pakistan. |
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Oct. 17, 2024 | David Dalle | Lemon Bucket Orkestra in Ottawa! Trombonist Nathan Dell-Vandenberg and violinist and vocalist Mark Marczyk joins me to talk about the new album and tour. |
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Oct. 10, 2024 | David Dalle | 30 for 30 with Lubomyr Melnyk; music from Zimbabwe, Senegal, Cuba and more! |
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Oct. 3, 2024 | David Dalle | Shujaat Hussain Khan in Ottawa! Bruckner's 6th symphony! |
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Sep. 26, 2024 | David Dalle | Violinist Arun Ramamurthy joins me to present his sophomore album with his Trio "New Moon". 30 for 30 with Shankar's "Raga Aberi". |
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Sep. 19, 2024 | David Dalle | Farewell to Mangey Khan; Kala Ramnath; 30 for 30 with Keith Jarrett |
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Sep. 12, 2024 | David Dalle | Bruckner's 5th symphony. Barmer Boys, Klezmer and more! |
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Sep. 5, 2024 | David Dalle | 30 for 30 with Brave Old World's "Blood Oranges" and Alfred Schnittke's "Concerto Grosso No. 1" |
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Aug. 29, 2024 | David Dalle | Constantine Caravassilis joins me to present his most ambitious work to date "From Sappho's Lyre". |
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Aug. 22, 2024 | David Dalle | Guest Hindustani pianist Utsav Lal joins me to discuss his unique career and his new album. |
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Aug. 15, 2024 | David Dalle | 30 for 30 with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Sheikh Yasin Al-Tuhami. |
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Aug. 8, 2024 | David Dalle | Bruckner's 4th symphony. New Lemon Bucket Orkestra. |
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Aug. 1, 2024 | David Dalle | The Danish String Quartet, Cris Derksen, Moneka Arabic Jazz, Raphael Weinroth-Browne at the Ottawa Chamberfest! Tickets to give away! |
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Jul. 25, 2024 | David Dalle | Farewell Toumani Diabaté |
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Jul. 18, 2024 | David Dalle | 30 for 30 in Africa with Tabu Ley and the Kronos Quartet! Spain, Argentina. |
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Jul. 11, 2024 | David Dalle | Bruckner's 3rd symphony; some tunes I heard on CKCU in the past week. |
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Jul. 4, 2024 | David Dalle | Games of the Night Wind: guest, Christina Petrowska Quilico, joins me to discuss her new album she is featuring at Music & Beyond. |
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Jun. 27, 2024 | David Dalle | My Canada. Music from Kuné and others. |
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Jun. 20, 2024 | David Dalle | John Luther Adams "everything that rises"; music from Cuba, Bedouin music from Egypt and more. |
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Jun. 13, 2024 | David Dalle | 30 for 30 with Greek and Portuguese songstresses; new music from South Africa, Pakistan, Canada and more! |
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Jun. 6, 2024 | David Dalle | 30 for 30 with Goran Bregovic's "Underground" and the Kocani Orkestar; Bruckner's 2nd symphony. |
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May. 30, 2024 | David Dalle | 30 for 30: Iran! Shahram Nazeri, Malek Masoudi, Kayhan Kalhor, Kiya Tabassian, Hamid Motebassem. |
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May. 23, 2024 | David Dalle | 30 for 30 with a spectacular piano transcription; Canadian, Somalian, Egyptian, Nigerian, South African funk and jazz. |
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May. 16, 2024 | David Dalle | Ballaké Sissoko and Derek Gripper's new release; guitar from all over Africa; new music from Canada's Gabriel Dharmoo, Florian Hoefner, John Kameel Farah & Nick Fraser. |
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May. 9, 2024 | David Dalle | Guitarist Derek Gripper joins me in studio to talk about his current tour, his new album with kora master Ballaké Sissoko, his concert tonight in Ottawa, and to play a few tunes! |
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May. 2, 2024 | David Dalle | Finnish accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen's thrilling recording with the Kronos Quartet. Montreal composer Patrick Giguère's new composition "Intimes Exubérances". |
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Apr. 25, 2024 | David Dalle | Trumpeter Frank London; beginning an Anton Bruckner symphonic cycle with his 1st symphony. |
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Apr. 18, 2024 | David Dalle | Guest Kiran Ahluwalia joins me to discuss her new album and her upcoming concert in Ottawa; fabulously danceable music from Mali and the Congo. |
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Apr. 11, 2024 | David Dalle | Kiran Ahluwalia's latest; recent and new albums from Analog Africa; 30 for 30 with Liszt's Transcendental Etudes. |
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Apr. 4, 2024 | David Dalle | Music for the eclipse: music of Ancient Egypt and other cosmic tunes; a farewell to Maurizio Pollini. |
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Mar. 28, 2024 | David Dalle | Passion music with Kaija Saariaho La Passion de Simone and more. |
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Mar. 21, 2024 | David Dalle | Montreal-based saxophonist, clarinetist, improviser, and composer Allison Burik's new allbum of music inspired by Nordic mythology; the Labyrinth of Pietro Locatelli; music from Cuba, Bulgaria and more. |
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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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