May 16, 2021
Hanna Pylväinen

A classical-heavy show from the wonderful writer Hanna Pylväinen. We discuss her work, and touch on topics which eventually led to her 2023, National Book Award-nominated book "The End of Drum Time." Join us for the emotionally excessive, the sacred, and the profane.



It is recommended that this playlist be listened to
with headphones or in a very quiet room.
Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.

  1. Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: II. Death of Åsa (arr. for accordion), Edvard Grieg, Mie Miki, 1888
  2. Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85 (1988 Digital Remaster): I. Adagio - Moderato, Edward Elgar, Jacqueline de Pré, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli, 1919
  3. Die Zauberflöte, K. 620 / Act 2: “Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Papagena!”, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, 1791
  4. Die Zauberflöte, K. 620 / Act 2: “Papagena! Papagena! Papagena!”, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, 1791 *these SHOULD be switched in order :)
  5. 24  Caprices, Op. 1: No. 24 in A Minor (Tema con variazioni. Quasi presto), Niccolò Paganini, Itzhak Perlman, 1802 - 1817
  6. Fratres, Arvo Pärt, Angela Yoffe, Vadim Gluzman, 1977
  7. Stabat Mater: I. Stabat Mater dolorosa, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Phillippe Jaroussky, Julia Lezhneva, Diego Fasolis, I Barocchisti, 1736
  8. Jesu, der du meine Seele, BMV 78: Duet Aria: Wir eilen mit schwachen (Soprano, Alto), Johann Sebastian Bach, Peter Kooji, Yuakri Nonoshita, Makoto Sakurada, Daniel Taylor, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki, 1724
  9. Violin Concerto in A Minor, BMV 1041: III. Allegro assai, Johann Sebastian Bach, Isabelle Faust, Christoph Poppen, Bach Collegium Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling, finished by 1730
  10. The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus XIV, Johann Sebastian Bach, Juilliard String Quartet, c. 1740s
  11. Täällä Pohjantähden alla, Petri Laaksonen, 1994
  12. Bier Andin, Sancuari, 2012
  13. Bogoróditse Devo, Sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninoff, Chorus Angelicus and Gaudeamus, 1915
  14. Lieder, Op. 27: Morgen!, Richard Strauss, Andreas Schmidt, 1894
  15. Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, Op. 6: III. Rondo (Allegro spirituoso), Niccolò Paganini,Gil Shaham, New York Philharmonic, Giuseppe Sinopoli, 1817 - 1818
  16. Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: II. Allegretto, Ludwig von Beethoven, Wiener Philharmoniker, Carlos Kleiber, 1811 - 1812
  17. Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Agnus Dei: Dona nobis pace pacem (Chorus), Johann Sebastian Bach, Carolyn Sampson, Rachel Nicholls, Robin Blaze, Gerd Türk, Peter Kooji, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki, 1749
  18. Germanico in Germania: Parto ti lascio, o cara, Nicoloa Porpora, Cecilia Bartoli, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini, 1732
  19. Nimrod from Enigma Variations, Edward Elgar, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philip Ellis, 1898 - 1899


Hanna Pylväinen is the author of We Sinners, a novel, which received the Whiting Writers’ Award. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal. She is the recipient of residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo, and fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University; currently, she is a Fellow at the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. Her second novel is forthcoming from Henry Holt & Co. in Fall 2022.