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Naxos Classical Music Spotlight We would like to invite you to join Naxos, the world's leading independent classical music label, in exploring the best of today's classical music. Each week we bring you a new program: sometimes a look at Naxos new releases, and sometimes a look at the performers and composers who make our recordings.
Format : Classical |
CMS:The Theatre Music of Henry Purcell Updated: 2008-04-22 07:51:59 Description: An introduction to the theatre music of the great English composer Henry Purcell, in a new CD featuring the Aradia Ensemble under the direction of Kevin Mallon. Purcell is still one of the most popular of all composers, and his music has been copied...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS:Frederic Rzewski's The People United Will Never be Defeated Updated: 2008-04-15 07:51:59 Description: An interview with pianist Ralph van Raat about his new recording of Frederic Rzewski's monumental solo piano variations The People United Will Never be Defeated...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS: Bartok's The Wooden Prince Updated: 2008-04-08 07:51:59 Description: A podcast look at Bartok's ballet score, The Wooden Prince, written in 1912. This ballet is one of only three stage works Bartok composed during this decade before returning to composing music for the concert stage...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS: An interview with Ralph Couzens Updated: 2008-04-01 07:51:59 Description: Ralph Couzens, Managing Director of Chandos Records, has grown up with this record label - it was founded by his father Brian Couzens. In this interiew, he talks about the Chandos name, the Chandos sound, and what it means to be a classical label i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS: An interview with Orli Shaham Updated: 2008-03-25 07:51:59 Description: Orli Shaham treads the concert halls of the world as a pianist in her own right. Occasionally, though, she teams up and does concerts with her equally famous brother, violinist Gil Shaham....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS: Nigel Clarke The Miraculous Violin Updated: 2008-03-18 07:51:59 Description: An interivew with composer Nigel Clarke about his new CD featuring The Miraculous Violin and other works for solo violin and winds. In this interview Clarke discusses how he composes, and how his travels around the world have influenced his music...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS: Haydn's Piano Concertos Updated: 2008-03-11 07:51:59 Description: A podcast feature about Haydn and his Piano Concertos...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS: Guitar Music of Chile Updated: 2008-03-04 07:51:59 Description: An introduction to Jose Antonio Escobar's new CD "Guitar Music of Chile". As this recording shows, Chile is producing some wonderful music for guitar, as well as some outstanding performers....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS: An interview with composer Kenneth Fuchs Updated: 2008-02-26 07:51:59 Description: An interview with American composer Kenneth Fuchs about his new CD "Canticle to the Sun", and about the various sources of his inspiration...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS: Jose Serebrier and the Carmen Symphony Updated: 2008-02-19 07:51:59 Description: An interview with Jose Serebrier about his new recording with "The President's Own" United States Marine Band. Serebrier discusses the composers on this disc, including Bizet, Revueltas, Ginastera and Villa Lobos...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS: Lise de la Salle plays Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Liszt Updated: 2008-02-12 07:51:59 Description: A podcast introduction to Lise de la Salle's new recording of the first piano concertos by Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Liszt, three concertos that all had their first performances with the composer at the piano...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS: Shostakovich's music for the film Odna Updated: 2008-02-05 07:51:59 Description: In 1929, Dmitri Shostakovich wrote music for a feature length film called Odna (Alone). Although some of the film has been lost, this astonishing score has been meticulously re-constructed by Mark Fitz-Gerald....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS: An interview with Elliott Carter Updated: 2008-01-29 07:51:59 Description: Elliott Carter is the "Dean of American composers". At the age of 99, still actively composing, he has a perspective and depth of knowledge that few can match. In this podcast, he talks about his string quartets, and the development of his compositio...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS: An interview with the Pacifica Quartet Updated: 2008-01-29 07:51:59 Description: Elliott Carter is the "Dean of American composers". At the age of 99, still actively composing, he has a perspective and depth of knowledge that few can match. In this podcast, Sibbi Bernhardsson of the Pacifica Quartet talks about learning and perfo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS: Brundibar Updated: 2008-01-22 07:51:59 Description: Brundibar was first performed in 1943 in the Terezin concentration camp. Of the 15,000 children who passed through this camp, only 132 survived. This podcast features an interview with Ela Stein Weissberger - one of those who survived, and who took...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS: An introduction to Vivaldi's opera Griselda Updated: 2008-01-15 07:51:59 Description: A brief introduction to Vivaldi's opera Griselda, based on a story that appeared in Boccacio's book The Decameron, that had been published several hundred years earlier....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS- James Hartway Updated: 2008-01-08 07:51:59 Description: An interview with American composer James Hartway in which he talks about his new CD, how commissioners affect composers, and the delights of his mother making him take piano lessons...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS- Leroy Anderson Updated: 2008-01-02 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses the life and music of Leroy Anderson...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS- Cimarosa Overtures Updated: 2007-12-25 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses the life and music of Domenico Cimarosa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS- Vaughan Williams' Hodie Updated: 2007-12-18 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses Vaughan Williams' Hodie...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS- Serebrier's Grammy Nominated The Golden Age Updated: 2007-12-13 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha interviews Maestro Jose Serebrier about his Grammy nominated CD Shostakovich: The Golden Age ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Gloria Coates Updated: 2007-12-11 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha interviews composer Gloria Coates...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - The Black Dyke Band Updated: 2007-12-04 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses the history of the Black Dyke Band...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - The Works of Respighi Conducted by JoAnn Falletta Updated: 2007-11-27 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses Respighi's Church Windows - An Interview with JoAnn Falletta...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Bela Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle Updated: 2007-11-20 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses Bela Bartok's creepy yet magnificent opera Bluebeard's Castle performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Chants d'Auvergne Updated: 2007-11-13 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses Joseph Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Virgil Thomson's music for The Plow that Broke the Plains Updated: 2007-11-05 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses the importance of Virgil Thomson's score to the film, The Plow That Broke the Plains....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - A Discussion with Gary Green regarding works by Thomas Sleeper and David Maslanka Updated: 2007-10-30 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha chats with Gary Green about his undiminished passion for winds and new comminsioned works from David Maslanka and Thomas Sleeper ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Serebrier on Stokowski Updated: 2007-10-19 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses the life and works of Stokowski with Jose Serebrier" ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Gil Shaham discusses his new label, Canary Classics, and its premier release, "The Butterfly Lovers" Updated: 2007-10-15 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha chats with Gil Shaham about his new label, Canary Classics, and its premier release, "The Butterfly Lovers"...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Composer Jefferson Friedman and his String Quartet No. 2 Updated: 2007-10-08 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha chats with composer Jefferson Friedman about his String Quartet No. 2"...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Violinist Jennifer Frautschi on the music of Stravinsky Updated: 2007-10-02 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha chats with Jennifer Frautschi about her most recent performance on, "Stravinsky 125th Anniversary Album." ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - The Music and Life of Miklos Rozsa Updated: 2007-09-24 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses the life and music of composer Miklos Rozsa" ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Wagner - Stokowski Transcriptions Updated: 2007-09-17 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses Stokowski's transcriptions of the works of Richard Wagner ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Brahms' Symphony No. 4 Updated: 2007-09-05 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses Brahms' Symphony No. 4...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Music From the Republic of Georgia Updated: 2007-08-27 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses Georgian Guitar Music...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Perform Brahms Symphony No. 1 Updated: 2007-08-20 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and their recording of Brahms Symphony No. 1...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Mozart's Horn Concertos Updated: 2007-08-13 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses Wolfgang Mozart's famous Horn Concertos...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - The Music of Charles Ives and the U.S. Marine Band, "The President's Own." Updated: 2007-08-06 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha chats with former Marine Band Conductor Col. Tim Foley about the music of Charles Ives and the U.S. Marine Band, "The President's Own."...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Special Editon Classical Music Spotlight - The Sonic Rebellion Collection- 20th Century Music That Shunned Conformity Updated: 2007-07-31 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses the Sonic Rebellion Collection and the composers that comprise this unconventional classical collection ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Pianist Allison Brewster Franzetti performs Berg, Hindemith, Schoenberg & Hartmann on "20th Century Piano Sonatas" Updated: 2007-07-23 07:51:59 Description: Interview With pianist Allison Brewster Franzetti about the CD she performs on, "20th Century Piano Sonatas" ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Erick Korngold's Soundtrack to the Film, "The Sea Hawk" Updated: 2007-07-16 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses the music of Erich Korngold soundtrack from the film "The Sea Hawk"...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Stravinsky 125th Anniversary Album Updated: 2007-07-09 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses the life and music of Igor Stravinsky on the 125th Anniversary of his birth...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Special Edition: Class of '38 - William Bolcom Updated: 2007-07-05 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha chats with William Bolcom about his music....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Special Edition: Class of '38 - Joan Tower Updated: 2007-07-03 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha chats with Joan Tower about her most recent release, "Made In America" ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Special Edition: Class of '38 - A Conversation with Composer Ellen Zwilich Updated: 2007-06-27 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha chats with composer Ellen Zwilich about her most recent work. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Special Edition: Class of '38 - A Conversation with Composer Charles Wuorinen Updated: 2007-06-27 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha chats with composer Charles Wuorinen about his most recent work. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Special Edition: Class of '38 - A Conversation with Composer John Harbison Updated: 2007-06-27 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha chats with composer John Harbison about his most recent work. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Special Edition: Class of '38 - A Conversation with Composer John Corigliano Updated: 2007-06-27 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha chats with composer John Corigliano about his most recent work. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Interview With Stephen Hartke about his opera, "The Greater Good" Updated: 2007-06-19 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha interviews composer Stephen Hartke about his opera, "The Greater Good." ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Classic American Love Songs Updated: 2007-06-12 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha chats with Carole Farley about her most recent performance on, "Classic American Love Songs." ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Interview With Conductor Richard Rosenberg of the Hot Springs Festival about Louis Moreau Gottschalk Updated: 2007-06-04 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk and the Hot Springs Festival with its conductor Richard Rosenberg. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Howard Hanson's opera Merry Mount with Gerard Schwarz Updated: 2007-05-22 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses composer Howard Hanson's opera, "Merry Mount" with conductor Gerard Schwarz ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Three Centuries of Bagatelles Updated: 2007-05-15 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses bagatelles and their place in Classical Music ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Interview With Roberto Sierra Updated: 2007-05-08 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses composer Roberto Sierra's most recent release, "New Music with a Caribbean Accent." ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Gustav Holst's Double Concerto Updated: 2007-05-02 07:51:59 Description: An exploration of the new recording, "Double Concerto" by Gustav Holst. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Interview With Joan Tower Updated: 2007-05-02 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha interviews composer Joan Tower to discuss her most recent release, "Made In America." ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The life and music of Giuseppe Tartini and Adriane Daskalakis - iTunes Exclusive Updated: 2007-04-20 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses the Life and Music of Giuseppe Tartini and Violinist Adriane Daskalakis....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Joseph Alessis Return to Sorrento Updated: 2007-04-12 07:51:59 Description: Interview with Joseph Alessi discussing his newest release Return to Sorrento....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The recordings of Julia Fischer - iTunes Exclusive Updated: 2007-04-11 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha explores the recordings of Julia Fischer....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Jose Serebrier Interview - iTunes Exclusive Updated: 2007-03-20 07:51:59 Description: An Interview with Jose Serebrier on the release of his compositions on Naxos....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - A Portrait of Accentus Updated: 2007-03-16 14:58:00 Description: The latest Accentus release features a 40-voice choir performing masterful transcriptions as close to literal as possible of both purely instrumental works....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Manuel de Falla Piano Music Updated: 2007-03-09 14:58:00 Description: The Complete piano music of Manuel de Falla...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Winds of Nagual Updated: 2007-03-02 14:58:00 Description: The work that gives this disc its name, Michael Colgrass' Winds of Nagual, was inspired by the writings of Carlos Castaneda and his experiences with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer, delving into the secrets of Columbian wisdom. No Shadow of Turning by David ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Pichl Symphonies Updated: 2007-02-23 14:58:00 Description: In his lifetime Wenzel Pichl was esteemed as one of the foremost European composers of the age. A friend of Dittersdorf, whose works exerted a strong influence on his development, Pichl wrote symphonies that rank among the most interesting of the per...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - John Adams Piano Music Updated: 2007-02-16 14:58:00 Description: John Adams vast and varied output has earned him a wide audience, uncommon among contemporary classical composers. The works on this disc span his entire career to date, and illustrate his many different styles of writing for the piano. Phrygian Gate...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Philip Glass Heroes Symphony Updated: 2007-02-16 14:58:00 Description: Although he remains best known for the works he wrote for his own ensemble, orchestral music has been at the forefront of activities for PHilip Glass for much of the last two decades. Having achieved success in 1993 with his Low Symphony, a reworking...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Hovhaness Symphony No. 60 Updated: 2007-02-09 14:58:00 Description: Of Armenian and Scottish extraction, the American composer Alan Hovhaness was a trend setting pioneer who absorbed a variety of archaic and modern influences from East and West. He once said My purpose is to create music, not for snobs, but for all p...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Elgar's Sea Pictures Updated: 2007-02-02 14:58:00 Description: Written for the striking contralto Clara Butt, who gave the work's premiere in a dress said to resemble a mermaid, Sea Pictures is Elgar's only song cycle with orchestra. These exquisite miniatures depict the sea in all its guises, peaceful and storm...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Das Partiturbuch Updated: 2007-01-26 14:58:00 Description: A look into Das Partiturbuch...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - From Byzantium to Andalusia Updated: 2007-01-19 14:58:00 Description: A journey from Byzantium to Andalusia...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Mahler Symphony No. 5 Updated: 2007-01-12 14:58:00 Description: Mahler's Fifth Symphony, a work of huge emotional and structural range, was his first purely orchestral work since the First Symphony of 1888, and his first orchestral work to dispense with both the human voice and overtly programmatic elements. The ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Christmas Through the Ages Updated: 2006-12-22 14:58:00 Description: A look at Christmas Music through the ages with the Elora Festival Singers and Oxford Camerata....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Sacred Music from Notre Dame Updated: 2006-12-22 14:58:00 Description: From plainchant via simple 9th-century harmonies and the virtuosic duets of Master Leonin, known as organum, this hauntingly beautiful sequence charts the birth of polyphony up to the first music in four independent parts composed by Master Perotin a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Shostakovich's The Golden Age Updated: 2006-12-15 14:58:00 Description: The three full-length ballet scores that Dmitry Shostakovich wrote between 1925 and 1935 remain among his least known works. The Golden Age revolves around the visit of a Soviet football team to a Western city at the time of an industrial exhibition,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Alberto Ginastera Ballet Panambi Updated: 2006-12-08 14:58:00 Description: Much admired by Aaron Copland, the Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera is widely regarded as one of the most important and original South American composers of the 20th century. The two ballets featured on this recording belong to the early period o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Vivaldi The Four Seasons Updated: 2006-12-01 14:58:00 Description: Vivaldi's universally popular Four Seasons has become one of the most recorded pieces of classical music. The four concertos, with their virtuoso part for solo violinist, depict the changing seasons in a pastoral landscape with dazzling variety. Viva...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Leonard Bernstein's Ballet Music Dybbuk and Fancy Free Updated: 2006-11-24 14:58:00 Description: The ballet Dybbuk was Bernsteins fourth and final collaboration with choreographer Jerome Robbins, written to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the state of Israel. The plot concerns a spirit that seeks to enter the body of a living person, and the b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Spaghetti Rag Updated: 2006-11-17 14:58:00 Description: This unique recording sets out to give a flavor of American ragtime through the medium of the mandolin. It is now believed that many of the original early twentieth-century rags were regularly performed by American-Italian mandolin orchestras whose n...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Monumental Winds Updated: 2006-11-03 14:58:00 Description: Monumental Works for Winds is a collection of some of the greatest pieces ever written for wind band. Persichetti's 1956 Symphony for Band, Op. 69 is not only one of his greatest works, but has become one of the most frequently performed original Ame...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Charles Ives String Quartets Updated: 2006-10-27 14:58:00 Description: A look into Charles Ives String Quartets with Connie Heard of the Blair QUartet....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Bach's Brandenburg Concertos Updated: 2006-10-20 14:58:00 Description: A unique look at the group of six orchestral works known as the Brandenburg Concertos, commissioned by and dedicated to the Margrave of Brandenburg, are among the greatest works of Johann Sebastian Bach. These are consummate examples of the art of Ba...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - A tribute to Sir Malcolm Arnold Updated: 2006-10-13 14:58:00 Description: A wonderful look at Malcom Arnolds music and symphonies....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Bartok's Mikrokosmos Updated: 2006-10-06 14:58:00 Description: The 153 piano pieces of Bela Bartok's "Mikrokosmos" are a milestone in piano literature. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from musical terms and technical procedures to indications of regional provenance and folk derivation, they are arranged in o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Chloe Hanslip Interview Updated: 2006-09-29 14:58:00 Description: Interview with Chloe Hanslip discussing her views and experiences from the latest recording of the John Adams Violin Concerto...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Kabalevsky Piano Concertos Updated: 2006-09-22 14:58:00 Description: Unlike many of his fellow countrymen, the Russian composer, pianist and writer Dmitry Kabalevsky flourished under Soviet rule, writing music mainly designed to inspire heroism and patriotism. The tuneful Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, clearly inspired...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Carmina Burana for Wind Band Updated: 2006-09-15 14:58:00 Description: This wind band arrangement of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" is entirely instrumental in concept, the vocal music having been fully incorporated into the band itself. The throbbing rhythms, chaste tenderness and heartfelt simplicity of the original are...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Orlando Gibbons Updated: 2006-09-08 14:58:00 Description: Orlando Gibbons' exquisite tunes and rock-solid bass-lines for the first English hymn book, "Hymnes and Songs of the Church (1623)", were written to be sung and played both at home and in church. Specially realized by Antony Pitts and Alexander L'Est...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Beethoven Liszt Symphonies 7 and 8 Updated: 2006-09-01 14:58:00 Description: The transcriptions must speak for themselves. Liszt is meticulous in his accurate reproduction of original phrasing and his specification, where necessary, of the original instrumentation. Critics have compared his transcriptions [favorably] with the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - El-Khoury's Lebanon in Flames Updated: 2006-08-25 14:58:00 Description: The Franco-Lebanese composer and poet Bechara El-Khoury was born in Beirut in 1957. A master of orchestration, El-Khoury draws on the rich palette of resources available to today's composers, putting into music, "human nature and its passions". This ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Music of Ivan Khandoshkin Updated: 2006-08-19 14:58:00 Description: A wonderful interview with Anastasia Khitruk discussing the works of Ivan Khandoshkin....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Marin Alsop talks about Toru Takemitsu Updated: 2006-08-11 14:58:00 Description: Marin Alsop discusses the works of Toru Takemitsu. Regarded as one of the most important composers of the second half of the twentieth century, Toru Takemitsu was the first Japanese composer to gain international status. The works on this disc cover...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Haydn Symphonies 18 to 21 Updated: 2006-08-04 14:58:00 Description: The four symphonies included on this recording date from an early period of Haydn's career, when he was experimenting with a newly developing form. Nos. 18-20 were written around 1759 when Haydn had his first steady employment as music director to Co...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classical Music Spotlight - Violin Music of Max Bruch Updated: 2006-07-28 14:58:00 Description: With its memorable tunes and dazzling writing for the solo instrument, Bruchs Violin Concerto No. 1 has been described as the quintessential Romantic showpiece. A firm favorite with soloists and audiences alike, it is coupled on this disc with two le...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Roy Harris Symphonies 3 and 4 Updated: 2006-07-21 14:58:00 Description: Strongly infl uenced by his native Oklahoma, Roy Harris studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, returning to America to establish himself as one of the leading composers of his generation. The backbone of his output is the series of thirteen symphonie...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Edvard Grieg String Music Updated: 2006-07-14 14:58:00 Description: Grieg was a master of the miniature, an aspect of his genius shown in this collection of works for string orchestra. The popular "Holberg Suite" translates a set of baroque dances into contemporary idiom. The other works are derived by the composer f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Four Handed Brahms Updated: 2006-07-07 14:58:00 Description: In keeping with the custom of the day, the scores of each of Brahms' four symphonies were all published in four-hand piano versions, so as to be accessible to a domestic audience. These arrangements reveal the cheerfulness and serenity of the Second ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lute Music of John Dowland Updated: 2006-06-30 14:58:00 Description: The pre-eminent lutenist of his day, John Dowland was an almost exact contemporary of William Shakespeare. This first volume of his complete lute music, which comprises about one hundred solo pieces, includes the 7 Fantasies, free-form, improvisatory...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Stockowski/Bach 01 Updated: 2006-06-23 14:58:00 Description: It was as a young church organist that Leopold Stokowski grew to love the music of Bach. Later,he arranged a number of Bachs organ works for full symphonic forces. The results were a spectacular success and through Stokowskis Bach transcriptions musi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John Cage Piano Music Updated: 2006-06-16 14:58:00 Description: American-born, John Cage, was one of the most adventurous musicians of the 20th century. Always seeking new musical sounds, he was a pioneer in the technique known as the Prepared Piano. This involved placing screws, bolts, and pieces of rubber and p...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ned Rorem Concertos for Violin and Flute Updated: 2006-06-09 14:58:00 Description: Chosen in 1988 as Composer of the Year by Musical America and now recognized as one of the finest song composers in America, Ned Rorem has also written a significant body of music for orchestra,including Three Symphonies. Written in a refined tonal i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mahler Symphony No. 8 Updated: 2006-06-02 14:58:00 Description: With its enormous vocal, choral and orchestral forces, Mahlers Eighth Symphony, later to be dubbed Symphony of a Thousand, is one of the largest and longest symphonies in the active repertoire. Part One, inspired by the Whitsuntide Vesper hymn Veni c...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Choral Music of Healy Willan Updated: 2006-05-26 14:58:00 Description: A choirboy in his youth, Healey Willan had a life-long passion for the human voice. Not counting his output for organ, chamber music and orchestral works, the bulk of his almost 800 compositions involved voice in one form or another. Born in England,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Shostakovich: The Execution of Stepan Razin Updated: 2006-05-19 14:58:00 Description: This disc of music by one of the greatest symphonists of the twentieth century ranges from the rarely heard Five Fragments of 1935, experimental practice runs for the Symphony No. 4, to one of the composers last orchestral works, the vibrant symphoni...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CMS- Thomas Tallis Updated: 2006-05-12 07:51:59 Description: Raymond Bisha discusses the life and music of Thomas Tallis...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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