
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
Joshua Weilerstein
4.9from 2,265 ratings
- 288
- Episodes
- 68
- Transcribed
- 2,265
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
About Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
Sticky Notes is a classical music podcast for everyone, whether you are just getting interested in classical music for the first time, or if you've been listening to it and loving it all your life. Interviews with great artists, in depth looks at pieces in the repertoire, and both basic and deep dives into every era of music. Classical music is absolutely for everyone, so let's start listening! Note - Seasons 1-5 will be returning over the next year. They have been taken down in order to be re-recorded in improved sound quality!
- Publisher
- Joshua Weilerstein
- Category
- arts · music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Mar 2017
- Latest episode
- 17 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
68 of 288 episodes have a transcript.

17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Shostakovich Symphony No. 6

3 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Grieg: Peer Gynt

20 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Mozart Clarinet Concerto
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Shostakovich Symphony No. 6
Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Instead, Shostakovich pivoted publicly to describing his new symphony this way, quote, The musical character of the Sixth Symphony will differ from the mood and emotional tone of the Fifth Symphony, in which moments of tragedy and tension were characteristic. In my latest symphony, music of a contemplative and lyrical order predominates. I wanted to convey in it the moods of spring, joy, youth. As you can see there, Shostakovich wasn't actually saying much there about the content of the symphony, if anything at all. He was leaving things deliberately ambiguous, and actually, ambiguous is a pretty good description of this highly enigmatic symphony. […]
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