Naxos Classical Spotlight Podcast
1) Florence Price's choral works. An introduction.
Florence Price’s abiding interest in the literary arts helps explain the extraordinarily large number of vocal compositions in her catalogue – well over one hundred – as well as the fact that she occa...Show More
2) Assembled again. The Peterhouse Partbooks.
Collected for use in the chapel of Cambridge University's Peterhouse college in the 1630s and hidden during the Civil War, the Peterhouse Partbooks represent one of the most important manuscript colle...Show More
3) Sweeping Romanticism. Polish folk spirit. Orchestral music by Zygmunt Noskowski.
Although the music of Polish composer Zygmunt Noskowski (1846–1909) is less well known than that of his teacher (Stanisław Moniuszko) and his students (Karol Szymanowski and Mieczysław Karłowicz), Nos...Show More
4) Bizarre and beautiful. Telemann, Vivaldi, Rosetti horn concertos.
In this podcast, Raymond Bisha unearths captivating performances of horn concertos by Rosetti, Vivaldi and Telemann. Did the latter have a few Steins of Alsterwasser to hand when depicting concertisin...Show More
5) Valentin Silvestrov. A powerful voice, defiant in exile.
Valentin Silvestrov was forced to leave his native Ukraine after the Russian invasion of 2022. His music has a prescient quality that unerringly seems to express the fate of his homeland. Raymond Bish...Show More
6) A Sutured World - the music of Liza Lim
This album with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra features music by Australian composer Liza Lim, with whom the orchestra has an ongoing relationship. Over the past decade the orchestra has been ...Show More
7) Alan Hovhaness. A prolific legacy of East-West synthesis.
The music of Alan Hovhaness, one of America’s most prolific composers, enchants with his signature synthesis of East and West. Influenced by his Armenian heritage and a fascination with nature and spi...Show More
8) The Piano Music of Alois Hába
There is a span of nearly six decades between the first and last of the compositions on this album of piano music by Czech composer Alois Hába, with works written during various creative periods and w...Show More
9) Vasari Singers. Close harmony. Open perfection.
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 e...Show More
10) Introducing piano works by Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez
Composer/poet Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1897. He went on to become a leading figure in the development of Brazil's classical music scene, as a composer, conductor, musicolo...Show More