Classical pianist Glenn Gould, the most improbable sex symbol in Canadian music history, set the world ablaze in the 1960s and 1970s with his emotional reinterpretations of Bach's keyboard repertoire. But what really distinguishes Gould from his contemporaries is the sheer volume of experimental recordings he bequeathed the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on his death, recordings made at home during his final years in recluse and only now available to the public for the first time....

Note to Listeners: we tried to keep this show focused on classical music, but then Grace kept mentioning how much she doesn't like Taylor Swift, and David felt forced to wave his populist flag, and that is how our podcast descended into nonsense shortly after our two hosts offhandedly diagnosed the vast majority of the Chinese population with obsessive compulsive disorder.
 said on
March 14, 2015
For those who might have missed (or subconsciously blocked) the 小苹果 song, the Youtube video is below. Enjoy:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZvC6HGujPUs

Brendan's reaction: "what the fuck"
 said on
March 14, 2015
FUN SHOW HAHA!

Although, correction everyone: at 5:00, it's "D小调协奏曲" It's 奏 not 作, the pronunciation was off.:) Enjoy!
 said on
August 29, 2015
@1321507161,

Plenty of Chinese-only shows at the Advanced level -- most of them in fact. If you're looking to filter them in advance, they're generally the ones without the dialogues, although a few still have dialogues.

 said on
September 9, 2015
Following previous comments, there is a mistake in the vocabulary list. 协奏曲 in pinyin it is not xie2zuo4qu1, but xie2zou4qu3. Errors on the 奏 and the 曲.
 said on
November 20, 2015
Is there a way to distinguish when you should use qu in the third vs. first tone?
 said on
March 2, 2016
Yes, please do a podcast on Chinese mondegreens!!!!!
 said on
April 6, 2016
In the vocalb list 余音绕梁yúyīnrǎoliáng should be yu2yin1rao4liang2

:-)