Masterworks in 10 Minutes or Less (MW10) is a podcast from musicologist and Classical Tulsa host Jason Heilman. Each episode introduces a classical work through engaging commentary and musical highlights in a convenient bite-sized format. It’s musicological insight you can use, and a great opportunity to broaden your musical horizons on your own schedule!
Season 1 features six episodes on works by Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, and Debussy from Chamber Music Tulsa’s 2019-20 concert season.
Season 2 highlights five more pieces by Beethoven, plus Dvorak’s “American” String Quartet, from Chamber Music Tulsa’s streaming and live 2020-21 season.
Season 3 presents works by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Mozart, and Beethoven, all from Chamber Music Tulsa's 2021-22 concert season.
Season 4 includes two pieces by Antonin Dvořák, plus works by Mendelssohn, Haydn, Beethoven and Gershwin, all on Chamber Music Tulsa's 2022-23 season.
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Although he was famous throughout Vienna as a songwriter, Franz Schubert secretly yearned for something more. It was only in the decades after his death… -
It was meant to be Felix Mendelssohn's instrumental requiem for his late sister, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel – but it became his own requiem, too. Classical…
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It was his final chamber work, and his final bid for musical immortality – and Franz Schubert made it count. Classical Tulsa host Jason Heilman introduces…
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When Antonín Dvo?ák came to America in the 1890s, he found a nation searching for its own musical language. He thought that Black spirituals and Native…
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Beethoven dedicated his grandest piano trio to a generous benefactor – his student, the Habsburg Archduke Rudolph – but the challenging piece nearly ended…
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Death was clearly on the composer's mind – and, sadly, it wouldn’t be too far away: Classical Tulsa host Jason Heilman introduces Franz Schubert’s Death…
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Napoleon's 1809 siege of Vienna left Beethoven completely unable to compose. What finally coaxed him back to productivity wasn't a turbulent exploration…
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Charming and genteel may not be the first words to come to mind when you think of Beethoven, but they should be in this case: Classical Tulsa host Jason…
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Whenever Ludwig van Beethoven composed pieces in pairs, the two works typically took on opposite characters. Possibly inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth,…
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Following in the footsteps of his idol, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the next important composer of chamber music for the clarinet was Ludwig van Beethoven.…
