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...
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Naxos Classical Spotlight
Naxos Classical Spotlight explores the world of classical music. Along the way host Raymond Bisha shares the stories about the music, and the musicians who make it.
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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 Pa...
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...
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 f...
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 unerri...
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...
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...
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 Há...
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 ce...
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...
An Introduction to the United Strings of Europe
In this podcast Raymond Bisha talks with Julian Azkoul, Director of United Strings of Europe, about how the group started, about their album...
"Just Biber". A new album with Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque
In Biber's time, harmony was something cosmic, vibrating in a God-given resonance between human, instrumental, and celestial bodies. After a...
Introducing the symphonic sphere of Leevi Madetoja
"I feel that you will achieve your greatest triumphs in [the symphonic] genre for I consider you to have precisely the properties that make...
Halleluja Junction. American Music for Two Piano
The musical partnership of pianists Anna Geniushene and Lukas Geniušas, both esteemed prize-winners of major international competitions, is...
Joby Talbot details the progression of his ballet score, The Winter's Tale.
Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon's ballet The Winter's Tale (after Shakespeare) was first performed by Covent Garden's Royal Ballet in 201...
From expressive intimacy to rhythmic incision. Music for guitar trio.
This podcast introduces a recently released, diverse programme of works for guitar trio bound by the common thread of music inspired by stor...
Behzod Abduraimov plays Prokkofiev and Shor
In his album liner notes Behzod Abduraimov writes: "I see this pairing as an opportunity to present two vastly different emotional and philo...
Transcription addiction. Liszt refashions Mozart and Donizetti.
In his later years, Liszt increasingly pursued his favoured causes by using piano transcriptions of other composers' works; and his own symp...
Vienna Mandolin Stories, an interview with Alon Sariel
This project by Alon Sariel and the Kölner Akademie celebrates the versatility of the mandolin on the cusp of the classical period. However,...
Weigl's Third Symphony. A long overdue premiere.
This podcast introduces two works by Karl Weigl (1881-1949), his Symphony No. 3 and the Symphonic Prelude to a Tragedy. Both were written at...