![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Classical Music Spotlight #4 - Naxos
A podcast looking at a different side of composer William Bolcom, who recently won three Grammy awards. His music for two pianos shows his skill, wit and his fascination with ragtime music.
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| Classical Music Spotlight #2 - Naxos
When it came to writing music for royal occasions, baroque composer George Frederic Handel was a master. This podcast looks at two of his finest works- the Water Music, and Music for the Royal Fireworks. Regal pomp at its very best!
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| Classical Music Spotlight #1 - Naxos
Highlights from a fascinating new CD, From Byzantium to Analusia, featuring medieval sounds from the Mediterranean, including music from Christian, Judaic, and Islamic traditions.
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Downloads: 595
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| Classical Music Spotlight #3 - Naxos
A podcast look at Englishman John Tavener's choral piece, Lament for Jerusalem. Tavener uses Christian, Judaic and Islamic texts, and mixes them with his own Eastern orthodox heritage to create a deeply moving cry that the message of peace be heard.
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Downloads: 197
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| Classical Music Spotlight #24 - Naxos
Orlando Gibbons was one of the greatest composers of post-Elizabethan England. Four hundred years later, his finely crafted and simple music has lost none of it's power to move hearts. This podcast looks at a new CD of his chorale music, featuring the outstanding English ensemble Tonus Peregrius.
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Downloads: 124
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| Classical Music Spotlight #27 - Naxos
Chloe Hanslip is a phenomenal young English violinist. Just 18 years old, she has released a new CD featuring all American repertoire including the John Adams Violin Concerto. In this podcast she talks about the new CD, and the music in it.
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Downloads: 106
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| Classical Music Spotlight #37 - Naxos
A podcast looking at the music Argentinean composer Alberto Ginastera wrote for Panambi, his feature length ballet based on the legends of the Guarani Indians from Northern Argentina.
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Downloads: 114
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| Classical Music Spotlight #5 - Naxos
This podcast looks at a surpising CD of tuba concertos. Beautifully performed and recorded, the music is charming, lyrical and great fun.
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Downloads: 105
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| Classical Music Spotlight #9 - Naxos
Anyone who has sung in a church choir is probably familiar with Healey Willan, a modest man who was one of the finest church composers during the first half of the 20th century.
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| Classical Music Spotlight #10 - Naxos
A podcast looking at two fabulous string octets, one written by Felix Mendelssohn while a teenager, and another written by Max Bruch in his 82nd year.
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Downloads: 162
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| Classical Music Spotlight #11 - Naxos
A podcast look at a brand new recording of Ned Rorem's Violin Concerto, and the world-premiere recording of his Flute Concerto.
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Downloads: 142
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| Classical Music Spotlight #12 - Naxos
One day composer John Cage decided to fill his piano with stuff from the hardware store. The result? His brilliant and quirky pieces for "prepared piano".
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Downloads: 164
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| Classical Music Spotlight #13 - Naxos
Leopold Stokowski was one of the most memorable of all conductors - a great musician, charismatic leader, and also a brilliant showman. He is also one of the few real conductors to shake hands with Mickey Mouse. This podcast looks at his well known transcriptions of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Downloads: 196
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| Classical Music Spotlight #14 - Naxos
John Dowland was the lute playing genius of his day, a friend of Shakespeare, musician for royal courts in England and Germany, and composer of some of the greatest music ever written for the lute. This is the ultimate unplugged.
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Downloads: 195
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| Classical Music Spotlight #15 - Naxos
Whenever Brahms wrote a symphony, he also did a version for piano four hands - so the folks at home could sit at their pianos and play his symphonies. In this podcast, you get to hear highlights of both versions of his Second Symphony.
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Downloads: 83
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| Classical Music Spotlight #16 - Naxos
Think Norway's main exports are tennis stars, skiing stars, and alarmingly beautiful people? Time to take a look at composer Edvard Grieg - Norway's best known, and best loved composer.
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Downloads: 200
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| Classical Music Spotlight #17 - Naxos
Roy Harris’ life and music could only have come out of America. He was born in Oklahoma, in a log cabin on the family farm in 1898. From these humble beginnings, he became one of the best known and most performed American composers.
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Downloads: 119
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| Classical Music Spotlight #18 - Naxos
A podcast look at the weird and somewhat spooky instrument called the Ondes Martenot.
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Downloads: 134
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| Classical Music Spotlight #19 - Naxos
When Joseph Haydn wrote his Symphony No. 18 he was a poor young composer, barely covering the bills by writing music for a minor nobleman. By the time he wrote his Symphony No. 20, he had the job of a lifetime, employed by Prince Esterhazy, one of the richest men in Europe - and a generous patron who made sure his composers had everything they needed.
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Downloads: 130
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| Classical Music Spotlight #20 - Naxos
Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu created a unique and absolutely beautiful sound world in his music. In this podcast, conductor Marin Alsop talks about her new recording of his music.
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Downloads: 473
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| Classical Music Spotlight #21 - Naxos
Lebanese-born composer Bechara El-Khoury lived through the first four years of the Lebanese Civil War. Since that time, he has written a number of pieces portraying the carnage and destruction of this conflict - music that is sadly relevant today.
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Downloads: 170
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| Classical Music Spotlight #22 - Naxos
A podcast interview with Russian violinist Anastasia Khitruk as she talks about her new CD of music by the Russian virtuoso Ivan Khandoshkin.
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Downloads: 128
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| Classical Music Spotlight #23 - Naxos
Franz Liszt was one of the greatest pianists of his time - perhaps of all time. He was also a huge fan of Ludwig van Beethoven, and made superb piano transcriptions of the symphonies that Ludwig wrote. This podcast looks at his piano versions of Beethoven Symphonies 7 and 8.
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Downloads: 163
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| Classical Music Spotlight #25 - Naxos
A look at a release in the brand new Naxos Wind Band Classics series. This particular release features the Peabody Conservatory Wind Ensemble playing music by Herbert Owen, Arthur Bird, and a brilliant transcription of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.
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Downloads: 175
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| Classical Music Spotlight #26 - Naxos
Dmitri Kabalevsky lived through the most repressive and dangerous years of Stalin's rule, and survived to tell the tale. He also managed to write some wonderful music, almost in spite of the situation - including these two piano concertos.
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Downloads: 123
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| Classical Music Spotlight #28 - Naxos
Throughout his life, Hungarian composer Bela Bartok was interested in teaching young musicians. Early on in his career he collaborated on several volumes to help teach young people to play the piano. His major effort in this area though, was his Mikrokosmos... a collection of 155 short pieces to help train young pianists - beginning with dead simple, and ending up way at the other end of the scale.
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Downloads: 108
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| Classical Music Spotlight #29 - Naxos
Sir Malcolm Arnold was one of Britain’s best known, and certainly one of their most prolific composers. He wrote more than 130 film scores(including Bridge Over The River Kwai, which won him an Oscar in 1958). But Sir Malcolm considered his symphonies to be the most important music he wrote. Sir Malcolm passed away recently, just shy of his 85th birthday. This podcast is a tribute to both the composer and his symphonies.
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Downloads: 152
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| Classical Music Spotlight #30 - Naxos
J.S. Bach dedicated his six concertos to the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721. Since that date, these pieces have become favourites with audiences around the world. They have been sent into space on the Voyager probe, and have even been heard on the X-files.
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Downloads: 174
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| Classical Music Spotlight #31 - Naxos
An introduction to the String Quartets of American composer Charles Ives. Interview guest Connie Heard, violinist with the Blair Quartet helps introduce the unusual and wonderful pieces of music.
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Downloads: 171
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| Classical Music Spotlight #32 - Naxos
The United States Marine Band is the oldest professional musical group in the United States, founded in 1798 by an act of Congress. They are now one of the finest and busiest bands in the world, performing over 500 times per year.
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Downloads: 69
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| Classical Music Spotlight #33 - Naxos
More than any other composer, Aaron Copland helped define the “American” sound in orchestral music – especially with his musical portraits of life on the prairie – which is odd considering he grew up in Brooklyn. Yet, somehow Copland was able to capture the feel of the frontier Midwest with such accuracy that composers ever since have been copying him.
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Downloads: 148
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| Classical Music Spotlight #34 - Naxos
Spaghetti Rag? Ragtime for mandolin orchestra? You better believe it. Over a century ago, the Italian immigrants to the United States discovered ragtime, adapted it for mandolins, and made it their own.
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Downloads: 217
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| Classical Music Spotlight #35 - Naxos
A podcast look at two of the ballet scores Leonard Bernstein created in collaboration with the great choreographer Jerome Robbins.
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Downloads: 125
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| Classical Music Spotlight #36 - Naxos
A podcast look at one of the most popular pieces of classical music ever written… Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
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Downloads: 888
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| Classical Music Spotlight #38 - Naxos
Shostakovich's ballet, The Golden Age, was written just as Stalin was really getting going in the Soviet Union. The unlikely story line has a Soviet soccer team visiting an American city, at the same time as a Golden Age Of Industry Exhibition. From this unlikely source, Shostakovich creates a full ballet of wonderful, witty, and often beautiful music.
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Downloads: 170
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| Classical Music Spotlight #39 - Naxos
It took more than a century to build Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. As that great Gothic building was erected, an equally amazing musical school was developing around two composers, Leonin and Perotin.
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Downloads: 85
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| Classical Music Spotlight #40 - Naxos
During his lifetime, Gustav Mahler was best known as a conductor – he even conducted the New York Philharmonic for a while. These days, it is his work as a composer that people remember, especially his massive symphonies – such as Symphony #5. Huge, wild, sublime, and more than an hour long. This podcast gives a brief introduction to this piece.
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Downloads: 697
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| Classical Music Spotlight #41 - Naxos
Edward Elgar’s Sea Pictures was first performed in 1899, with the composer himself conducting. That same year, it was played in a command performance at Balmoral Castle for Queen Victoria. We don’t know what Queen Victoria thought about it, but we do know it has since become one of Elgar’s best-loved pieces.
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Downloads: 153
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| Classical Music Spotlight #42 - Naxos
Alan Hovhaness was an eclectic and prolific American composer who lived through most of the 20th century. At a time when many classical composers were writing more and more challenging and difficult music, Hovhaness looked to his Armenian heritage and eastern influences to create a sound that both simple, and often deeply moving.
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Downloads: 383
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| Classical Music Spotlight #43 - Naxos
When Philip Glass wrote his Heroes Symphony, he turned to the songs of David Bowie and Brian Eno for inspiration. In fact, each movement in this symphony is based on one of the songs from the David Bowie's "Heroes" album.
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Downloads: 214
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| Classical Music Spotlight #44 - Naxos
Wenzel Pichl was one of the most respected composers of his day. Unfortunately that was 250 years ago, and another composer named Mozart was around at the same time. Now people only talk about Mozart - too bad, Pichl was a pretty plum of a prolific composer who produced poignant music.
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Downloads: 256
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| Classical Music Spotlight #45 - Naxos
A podcast look at a new release in the Naxos Wind Band Classics series featuring the Ohio State University Wind Symphony. The featured work on this CD is Winds Of Nagual by composer Michael Colgrass, a piece inspired by the writings of Carlos Castenda.
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Downloads: 66
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| Classical Music Spotlight #46 - Naxos
Although Manual de Falla studied in Paris for a spell, he was a thoroughly Spanish composer – those Spanish tunes and rhythms were in his blood. This podcast looks at a new CD dedicated to his music for piano, Volume One of an ongoing series.
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Downloads: 84
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| Classical Music Spotlight #47 - Naxos
The French choir Accentus has become known as one of the finest choral units in the world, and their two discs of transcriptions for choir show why. All of the pieces on these discs were originally written for something else – piano, orchestra, or solo voice – and have been arranged for choir to stunning effect.
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Downloads: 223
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| Classical Music Spotlight #48 - Naxos
John Adams is one of America's best known composers, thanks to pieces like "Nixon In China", "Short Ride Of A Fast Machine" and his "Violin Concerto". This podcast looks at a new CD featuring his music for piano.
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Downloads: 222
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| Classical Music Spotlight #6 - Naxos
A look at Brahms Symphony No. 2 and a recent recording of it with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by American super-maestra Marin Alsop.
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Downloads: 184
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| Classical Music Spotlight #7 - Naxos
Estonian composer Arvo Part has developed one of the most unique voices in the past century of classical music. This podcast looks at his life, and his journey as a composer.
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Downloads: 423
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| Classical Music Spotlight #8 - Naxos
Tuneful music from the Rennaissance courts of Germany.
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Downloads: 214
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