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Banjos, Bartók And La Belle Époque: New Classical Albums

Meet Béla Fleck, the classical composer. He has written himself a concerto for banjo and orchestra called <em>The Impostor</em>.
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Mercury Classics, Deutsche Grammophon
Meet Béla Fleck, the classical composer. He has written himself a concerto for banjo and orchestra called The Impostor.

People ask why I thrive on classical music, and I tell them it's all about discovery. The possibilities for finding incredible music, both old and new, are endless as the oceans. And on this visit to All Things Considered, host Jacki Lyden and I explore new music from the young Caleb Burhans that echoes an older liturgical style and a new concerto for banjo by Béla Fleck, plus a pair of concertos written 30 years apart by a Fleck namesake, Béla Bartók. And we'll slip into the elegant world of the fin-de-siècle Parisian salons via the perfumed music of Reynaldo Hahn.

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Tom Huizenga is a producer for NPR Music. He contributes a wide range of stories about classical music to NPR's news programs and is the classical music reviewer for All Things Considered. He appears regularly on NPR Music podcasts and founded NPR's classical music blog Deceptive Cadence in 2010.
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