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Backtrack of the week. Rautavaara. - The Naxos Blog
Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Ondine label (ODE1041-2) is a movement from Cantus arcticus by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928–2016). It’s a highly original orchestral work that incorporates recorded Read More ...
Podcast: Composer Ronald Stevenson. A fantastically original musical mind. - The Naxos Blog
Scottish father, Welsh mother, born in England, polyglot, highly intellectual, educator, composer, phenomenal pianist and a fantastically original musical mind. Introductions such as this don’t crop up too often, so take time out to listen to this podcast about Ronald Stevenson’s highly engaging piano music as performed and introduced by Peter Jablonski in conversation with Read More ...
Podcast: Vasari Singers. Close harmony. Open perfection. - The Naxos Blog
Vasari Singers, one of the UK’s pre-eminent choirs, have titled their new album The Music Never Ends, referencing Michel Legrand and his celebrated song How do you Keep the Music Playing? And by the end of the album’s twenty-one tracks, you’ll wish it could be so. Raymond Bisha dips into the programme’s multi-faceted offerings, while Read More ...
Podcast: Classical Discoveries - DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: The Symphonies - The Naxos Blog
In their latest #ClassicalDiscoveries episode, Jens and Joe explore Shostakovich’s symphonies – works of daring subversion masked as Soviet conformity. From the banned Fourth Symphony to the sardonic Ninth, they reveal how Shostakovich smuggled private rebellion into public music. Featuring Gürzenich-Orchester Köln’s powerhouse recordings, this is Soviet-era genius at its most explosive. “Quiet in person, Read More ...
Podcast: Classical Discoveries - CHARLES KOECHLIN: France’s Hidden Symphonist - The Naxos Blog
In their latest episode of their #ClassicalDiscoveries podcast, Jens and Joe take a look at the scintillating music of Charles Koechlin, a fascinating composer and forgotten French symphonist who is impossible to pigeonhole. Neither an impressionist, nor simply a romantic, dramatic, lyric, abstract, or descriptive composer, he combined revolutionary, academic, and eclectic traits. One second, Read More ...
Podcast: Florence Price. The concertos. - The Naxos Blog
Conductor John Jeter has been central to the rediscovery and representation of Florence Price’s orchestral works. In this podcast, he discusses with Raymond Bisha his latest recording of her piano concerto and her two violin concertos, the only works she composed in the genre. The early First Violin Concerto, with shades of Tchaikovsky and undertones Read More ...
Podcast: Evocative, filmic, celebratory. Sacred choral music by Philip Stopford. - The Naxos Blog
In this podcast Raymond Bisha introduces an album of sacred choral music by Philip Stopford in which all the items were composed between 2013 and 2022 and are heard in their world premiere recordings. Beautifully crafted, memorable, colourful and deeply rooted in the Anglican tradition, Stopford’s works are immediately attractive and widely admired in the Read More ...
Podcast: Classical Discoveries - Dmitri Shostakovich: The Film Music Scores - The Naxos Blog
In this episode, Jens and Joe dive into the forgotten reels of Shostakovich’s film music, tackling anything from Italian partisans to Austrian invaders along the way – and wondering why everyone knows Prokofiev’s Ivan the Terrible, but not The Fall of Berlin. Plus: a well-earned shoutout to Dave at Dave’s Classical Guide. Other Episodes: Classical Read More ...
Podcast: Miklós Rózsa. A double creative life. - The Naxos Blog
Raymond Bisha introduces the latest instalment in the Capriccio label’s exploration of rarely performed or recorded symphonic works by Miklós Rózsa, outlining his maturation not only into one of the most successful film composers of all time, but also the creator of equally fine concert works. The album’s programme comprises his Rhapsody for Cello, in Read More ...
PODCAST: Classical Discoveries – EASTER CLASSICS beyond J. S. Bach - The Naxos Blog
Easter marks the high point of the Christian year. It cannot be surprising, then, that some of the greatest compositions in classical music have been written to mark this feast. When today’s concert halls give a nod to Easter, Bach dominates programming. In their latest podcast, Jens and Joe explore some gems beyond Bach, from Read More ...
Podcast: Karabtchevsky on Villa-Lobos. - The Naxos Blog
Since the 1970s, Brazilian conductor Isaac Karabtchevsky has steadfastly developed one of the most brilliant careers across the Brazilian and international music scenes, The Guardian in 2009 hailing him as one of Brazil’s living icons. He’s heard in this podcast In conversation with Raymond Bisha, discussing the music of fellow Brazilian icon, the composer Heitor Read More ...
Podcast: Weaving intellect with emotion: Daron Hagen’s cantata Everyone, Everywhere. - The Naxos Blog
American composer Daron Hagen talks about his cantata Everyone, Everywhere in conversation with Raymond Bisha. Composed In 2023 to mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Hagen found impetus in the contemporary political status of his own nation to recontextualise the declaration’s dry language and enable him to convey its emotional Read More ...
Podcast: Pade, Krek, Batič. Denmark meets Slovenia to inspirational effect - The Naxos Blog
In this podcast, Raymond Bisha discusses a new album from the Danish National Vocal Ensemble with their chief conductor, Slovenian Martina Batič. The programme similarly melds the two nations in a programme of choral music by Slovenian composer Uroš Krek (1922–2008) and Danish composer Else Marie Pade (1924–2016), the latter a pioneer in electronic music Read More ...
Podcast: Lutenist Yasunori Imamura plays transcriptions of Bach - The Naxos Blog
Raymond Bisha introduces the first of two albums of transcriptions of J. S. Bach’s cello suites performed by Yasunori Imamura, one of the world’s leading lutenists, both as a soloist and as a continuo player. His chosen instrument for these recordings is the theorbo, an instrument that more suitably reflects the range of the cello, Read More ...
Podcast: A Brazilian discovery. Francisco Mignone’s late violin sonatas - The Naxos Blog
Developed in collaboration with the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Naxos’ Music of Brazil series is part of the Brasil em Concerto project, presenting around 100 orchestral, chamber, choral and vocal works from the 19th and 20th centuries, many of which were previously unpublished or simply undiscovered. Such was the case of Francisco Mignone’s (1897–1986) Read More ...