Daniel and Isabel Save Classical Music
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Daniel and Isabel take a break
September 3, 2026 · 8 minDaniel and Isabel are taking September and October off from the podcast. New episodes coming in November! With Daniel's tour of his solo show and Isabel's movie release, they aren't able to be in the same city as each other enough to…
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Rachmaninoff Rests
September 1, 2026 · 42 minDaniel and Isabel talk about slowing down, the balance between hard work and rest, and the power of musical rests, repetition, and rhythmic variation in Sergei Rachmaninoff's Moments Musicaux No. 3 in B Minor. Isabel brings her viola and…
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Chasing Ideas
August 25, 2026 · 43 minDaniel and Isabel talk about reading Rick Rubin's "The Creative Act," getting ideas, and Debussy's Arabesque No. 1 in E major. YouTube for full video episodesFollow Isabel HERE. Follow Daniel HEREFollow the podcast everywhere at…
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Depression and Schubert
August 18, 2026 · 43 minDaniel and Isabel talk about depression, the difference between depression and sadness, and whether great artists need to feel an intense emotional state like depression in order to create. Daniel plays the second movement of Schubert's…
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Chopin's Dark Chorale
August 11, 2026 · 42 minDaniel and Isabel analyze Chopin's short yet powerful Prelude in C Minor, and Isabel explains her unfortunate association with the piece. They also reference Chopin's 1st and 4th Ballades, Rachmaninoff's Prelude in c-sharp minor, and…
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Pleasure in Melancholy
August 4, 2026 · 46 minDaniel and Isabel talk about Brahms' Intermezzo op. 119 no. 1, which begins his final set of small works for the piano. They discuss Brahms' letter to Clara Schumann about the opening of the piece, the painful desire of the Romantics, and…
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Shostakovich Goes Baroque
July 28, 2026 · 36 minDaniel and Isabel dive into Fugue in A Major, op. 87 by Dmitri Shostakovich. YouTube for full video episodesFollow Isabel HERE. Follow Daniel HEREFollow the podcast everywhere at @saveclassicalpod
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Chopin's Darkest Prelude
July 21, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minDaniel and Isabel dive into Chopin’s E Minor Prelude (and Isabel joins on a special viola rendition of it), and they briefly touch on Chopin’s E-flat Major Nocturne, Chopin’s A Minor Mazurka, op. 59 no. 1, Earl Wild’s arrangement of…