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Podcast: JoAnn Falletta introduces Walton’s complete Façades
September 02, 2022

This podcast features Peter Hall in conversation with JoAnn Falletta, music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, about her latest release on the Naxos label — a recording of William Walton’s Façades 1 and 2, together with four additional movements.

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Podcast: The Kernis Kaleidoscope
March 11, 2022

Raymond Bisha introduces us to the eclectic and exuberant imagination of the American composer Aaron Jay Kernis, whose works are inhabited by a host of influences — musical, historical and personal.

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Podcast: Bolcom, Byron, Lorca – rich colours, dramatic swings
February 25, 2022

Raymond Bisha’s podcast focuses on two works by William Bolcom recorded for the Naxos American Classics Series.

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Podcast: Jean Sibelius – a journey beyond the symphonies
February 11, 2022

Raymond Bisha dips into a Naxos recording of works by Jean Sibelius that have been obscured by the popularity of his symphonies and the violin concerto, including many pieces he wrote to complement stage works. 

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Podcast: Simply unmissable
January 28, 2022

Once in a while you hear such incredibly beautiful music for the first time that you just can’t understand why it has remained under wraps for so long.

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Podcast: A fascination with sound – Ravel’s spellbinding works for the stage.
January 14, 2022

Fantasy, fairy tales and Maurice Ravel’s flair for orchestral colour are all to the fore in this album featuring two examples of the composer’s music for the stage — the scores for his opera L’Enfant et les sortilèges and his ballet Ma mère l’oye.

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Podcast: Weinberg’s comprehensive keyboard catalogue
December 24, 2021

In this week’s podcast, Raymond Bisha introduces the 4-CD collection of the complete piano works of Mieczysław Weinberg — from teenage mazurkas written in his native Poland through to his last works for the instrument composed in Moscow.

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Podcast: A forgotten treasure. Marin Alsop discusses Hindemith.
November 12, 2021

This podcast features Marin Alsop in conversation with Raymond Bisha following the release of her first album for Naxos as chief conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

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Podcast: Paired to perfection. Tianwa Yang plays Prokofiev’s violin concertos.
October 22, 2021

Violinist Tianwa Yang marks her fifteenth year as one of Naxos’ leading artists with a new album featuring Prokofiev’s two violin concertos.

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Podcast: A centenary special – Sir Malcolm Arnold’s Complete Symphonies and Dances
October 08, 2021

An introduction to the Symphonies and Dances of composer Malcolm Arnold featuring conductor Andrew Penny who recorded all these works for Naxos.

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Podcast: Mapping a musical monument. Giltburg’s Beethoven 32.
September 24, 2021

Raymond Bisha presents an overview of Boris Giltburg’s project to learn and record all of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas, which are now released in a 9-CD boxed set edition following their inception as critically acclaimed digital releases.

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Podcast: Versatilité sans frontières. Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint–Georges (1745–1799).
September 10, 2021

Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was a brilliant swordsman, athlete, violin virtuoso and gifted composer, with a claim to being the most talented figure in an age of remarkable individuals.

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Podcast: The string quartets of Jurgis Karnavičius (1884–1941).
August 27, 2021

Raymond Bisha introduces the second volume of string quartets by the Lithuanian composer Jurgis Karnavičius (1884–1941), recorded by the Vilnius String Quartet on the Ondine label.

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Podcast: Jazz idioms, classical structures. Symphonic works by Nikolai Kapustin (1937–2020).
August 13, 2021

Significantly influenced by his experience of playing in some of the earliest Soviet jazz bands, Nikolai Kapustin trained as a pianist at the Moscow Conservatory but subsequently devoted himself to composition.

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Podcast: Music of Brazil. The Villa-Lobos violin sonatas.
July 23, 2021

Raymond Bisha prefaces his latest podcast with this introduction: “Heitor Villa-Lobos, the prolific Brazilian composer of some 2,000 works, conductor, cellist, guitarist and music educationalist, wrote his three violin sonatas between 1912 and 1920.

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Podcast: Camille Saint-Saëns. A symphonic collection.
July 16, 2021

French composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) is remembered as someone who could spin melodies as easily as he breathed.

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Podcast: The Power of Tower
July 09, 2021

With multiple GRAMMY nominations and wide critical acclaim to her credit, Joan Tower’s latest album in the Naxos American Classics series demonstrates why she is so often performed, and why she is such a respected person among American composers.

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Podcast: Anne-Louise Brillon de Jouy (1744–1824). Piano sonata premieres.
June 18, 2021

Anne-Louise Brillon de Jouy ran one of the finest salons in pre-revolution Paris.

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Podcast: Liszt’s musical makeovers.
June 11, 2021

From composer to transcriber to performer — less instantaneous than modern transmissions, but it’s how many works first came to be known by music lovers before the dawn of the age of technology.

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Podcast: Dancing elegance, melodic flow. Overtures by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber.
May 28, 2021

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782–1871) was one of the most famous composers of the 19th century.

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Podcast: Introducing guitarist Mabel Millán. From lyrical beauty to dramatic virtuosity.
May 14, 2021

Raymond Bisha introduces Spanish guitarist Mabel Millán in her debut album for Naxos.

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Podcast: Music networking on the Inca Trails.
April 23, 2021

In this podcast, Raymond Bisha takes us on a journey across South America, making musical stops in the countries of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina and Colombia.

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Podcast: Archivo de Guatemala. Where indigenous styles meet courtly life.
April 09, 2021

Raymond Bisha’s latest podcast finds him in conversation with world-renowned guitarist and lutenist Richard Savino who introduces his debut recording for Naxos that also features his renowned ensemble El Mundo.

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Podcast: Colour-contrast-surprise. The symphonies of John Abraham Fisher (1744–1806)
March 26, 2021

Described as having ‘natural genius’, John Abraham Fisher was a significant figure in London during the second half of the 18th century.

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Podcast: Piano music by Aram Il’yich Khachaturian (1903–1978), ‘mouthpiece of the entire Soviet Orient’.
March 12, 2021

Aram Il’yich Khachaturian once described how he “grew up in an atmosphere rich in folk music, popular festivals, rites joyous and sad, events in the lives of people always accompanied by music… deeply engraved in my memory, that determined my musical thinking.”

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Podcast: Villa-Lobos and the art of choral transcription.
February 26, 2021

Raymond Bisha introduces a new album of choral transcriptions by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959) that forms part of Naxos’ Music of Brazil series.

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Podcast: Orchestral works by Žibouklé Martinaityté – a textural magician.
February 12, 2021

Raymond Bisha introduces a new album of orchestral works by Žibouklé Martinaityté (b. 1973).

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Podcast: Hit and bliss. Dame Evelyn Glennie performs mallet percussion concertos.
January 22, 2021

Raymond Bisha introduces a new album of 21st-century mallet percussion concertos performed by virtuoso percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong under Jean Thorel.

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Podcast: The art and craft of John Adams.
January 08, 2021

Raymond Bisha introduces a programme of orchestral music by the Pulitzer and Erasmus Prize-winning American composer John Adams.

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Podcast: Bruckner’s Latin motets. Devotions of distinction.
January 01, 2021

Choral music formed an important part of Anton Bruckner’s output throughout his career, even though the genre was widely underappreciated by a public more inclined to large-scale symphonic and operatic works.

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Podcast: Vítezslav Novák. Orchestral Works Vol. 1.
December 25, 2020

Czech composer Vitězslav Novák (1870–1949), who was one of Dvořák’s composition students, rose to prominence with a series of increasingly ambitious orchestral works that fused elements of folk music, impressionism and late-Romanticism.

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Podcast: Bernard Herrmann in the round
December 11, 2020

Raymond Bisha discusses a release of music by the American composer Bernard Herrmann with Joseph Horowitz, co-founder of PostClassical Ensemble, a group dedicated to stepping across normal repertoire boundaries.

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