This week’s pick from the Ondine label spotlights Sibelius’ Fourth Symphony.

This week’s pick from the Capriccio label is the Concerto for Bassoon and Low Strings that Sofia Gubaidulina composed in 1975 for Valeri Popov (b. 1937).

Recordings from Naxos and its affiliated labels were among the recently announced nominations for the 2026 International Classical Music Awards.

Spanish pianist Isabel Dobarro’s album Kaleidoscope on the Grand Piano label has won the 2025 Latin GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Album.

This week’s pick from the Naxos label is of a song by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959).

The Naxos Music Group is delighted to have received two nominations for the 2026 GRAMMY Awards. 

This week’s pick from the Ondine catalogue features music by the little-known late-Baroque German composer Johann Melchior Molter.

This week’s pick from the Orfeo label presents music by Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera, who died in 1983.

Once upon a time, there was a tiny little man in Vienna, who composed the grandest operas.

This week’s pick from the Dynamic label is of music by Italian composer Giovanni Battista Viotti, who was born in 1755.

This week’s pick from the Capriccio label is from a recording of the Flute Concerto by French composer Jacques Ibert (1890–1962).

Naxos Music Group, the world’s largest independent classical music company, has announced a strategic initiative to expand its activities in India.

This week’s pick from the Oehms Classics label presents a performance of the second movement from Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 6.

This week’s pick from the Naxos label is taken from Monteverdi’s Fourth Book of Madrigals, published in 1603.

This week’s pick from the Ondine label features a short piano movement by Sergei Prokofiev.

We’re pleased to report that the Naxos and Grand Piano labels feature among the nominations for the latest International Opera and Latin GRAMMY awards.

The whole stylistic world of Krysztof Penderecki in just over 70 minutes! Fear not, that’s not the length of our podcast today, it’s the time it takes to perform all his compositions involving string quartet and string trio.

This week’s pick from the Dynamic label is an extract from Richard Strauss’ tragic opera Daphne.

This week’s pick from the Capriccio label is supplied by Italian Baroque composer Antonio Caldara (1670–1736), one of the most famous and glittering personalities of his time.

If you know that sharks have teeth, dear, then that’s probably because Kurt Weill told you so in his song “Mack the Knife”.

This week’s pick from the Orfeo label is a movement from Franz Anton Hoffmeister’s Sinfonia concertante No. 1 for two clarinets and orchestra.

This week’s pick from the Naxos label features British composer Michael Tippett’s piano sonatas, specifically the neo-classical First Sonata…

This week’s pick from the Ondine label is a movement from Cantus arcticus by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928–2016).

Scottish father, Welsh mother, born in England, polyglot, highly intellectual, educator, composer, phenomenal pianist and a fantastically original musical mind.

Florence Price’s abiding interest in the literary arts helps explain the extraordinarily large number of vocal compositions in her catalogue…

Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s ballet The Winter’s Tale (after Shakespeare) was first performed by Covent Garden’s Royal Ballet in 2014.

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 collections of sacred choral music from the period.

Raymond Bisha introduces a programme of Noskowski’s Third Symphony and the symphonic poem The Steppe, Op. 66, which blends sweeping Romanticism with Polish folk spirit.

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 concertising frogs and crows? Listen on…

Renowned conductor Sir Roger Norrington has died aged 91.

Werner Ehrhardt sits down with Jens and Joe for a chat about his half century of recording rare and early music and how you discover music that’s yet to be discovered.

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.

Pianist Alon Goldstein and the Fine Arts Quartet, with bassist Voltan Orhon, have just recorded rare 19th Century chamber versions of Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 16 & 26.

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 spirituality, Hovhaness sought to create music “for all people, music which is beautiful and healing.”

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?

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, musicologist, and a professor of harmony in the National Music Institute in Rio de Janeiro, as well as other institutions.

“I feel that you will achieve your greatest triumphs in [the symphonic] genre for I consider you to have precisely the properties that make a great symphonic composer. This is my firm belief.” Thus wrote Jan Sibelius in 1914 to his former student Leevi Madetoja.

This podcast introduces a recently released, diverse programme of works for guitar trio bound by the common thread of music inspired by stories from literature, stage or screen.

Alfred Brendel, the renowned pianist and author, has died aged 94.

OPUS KLASSIK has released its list of nominations for the 2025 awards. Among them are four albums from the Naxos Music Group.

In their latest #ClassicalDiscoveries episode, Jens and Joe explore Shostakovich’s symphonies – works of daring subversion masked as Soviet conformity.

Raymond Bisha introduces a new album of Mozart and Donizetti opera transcriptions by Liszt, performed by Swiss-Russian pianist Konstantin Scherbakov, one of today’s most versatile and accomplished artists.

This podcast introduces two works by Karl Weigl (1881–1949), his Symphony No. 3 and the Symphonic Prelude to a Tragedy.

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.

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.

Lepo Sumera (1950–2000) was one of the most important figures in Estonian music following World War Two.

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.

Working amidst political and personal setbacks, Mieczysław Weinberg (1919–96) flourished as a composer, admired by Shostakovich and championed by the leading Soviet musicians of the day.

In this episode, Jens and Joe dive into the forgotten reels of Shostakovich’s film music.

This podcast presents pianist Giorgio Koukl in conversation with Raymond Bisha at the end of a five-year project to rehabilitate the complete works for piano solo and duo by Vittorio Rieti (1898–1994).

In this podcast, Raymond Bisha discusses the life and music of the composer, known as the ‘Brazilian Bartók’ on account of his ethnomusicological research, with conductor Neil Thomson.

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.

Niklas Eklund, the renowned Swedish trumpet player, has died aged 56. 

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.

The GRAMMY Award-winning team of composer Michael Daugherty, conductor David Alan Miller and the Albany Symphony returns with a new album comprising a set of remarkable works exploring associations with flight and space exploration, both tragic and triumphant.

Raymond Bisha delves into a new release of the first three of Petrassi’s concertos performed by the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma and conducted by Francesco La Vecchia.

Raymond Bisha introduces the latest instalment of a collectable series of seven albums showcasing Ukraine-born composer Alexey Shor’s appealing personal style and superb craftsmanship.

A gala concert celebrating the 2025 International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) took place recently in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, during which the winners in the various categories were formally acknowledged.

The renowned Soviet-Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina has died aged 93.

Notker Balbulus (c.840–912), also known as Notker of St Gall or Notker the Stammerer, was a renowned Benedictine monk at the Abbey of St Gall in Switzerland who made substantial contributions to both the music and literature of his time.

Franz Schmidt is not the most neglected composer among the 20th century grand romantics, but the discrepancy between the greatness of his music and his neglect in concert is staggering.

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.

American composer Daron Hagen talks about his cantata Everyone, Everywhere in conversation with Raymond Bisha.

The Board of Directors of the Naxos Music Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Matthias Lutzweiler as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Naxos Music Group, effective immediately.

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.

What to make of Norwegian composer Christian Sinding, who is chiefly remembered only by ambitious amateur pianists for his Rustle of Spring?

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.

A student of Haydn, a masonic brother of Mozart and a fine composer in his own right, Paul Wranitzky (1756–1808) left behind 45 symphonies that are at long last stepping out of the shadows thanks to ongoing recordings and increased access to published scores.