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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Naxos: Esto es música clásica es un podcast con comentarios en español, sobre novedades, grabaciones y entrevistas a músicos y artistas dentro del ámbito de la música clásica.
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Updates from the world's leading classical music label
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Irish cellist Gerald Peregrine introduces his latest album of early 20th-century British works for cello and piano, interweaving the classical and folk-based music with a personal narrative of community engagement, in which his live music-making initiatives have achieved truly significant and touching results.…
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El organista Francisco Javier Jiménez nos presenta su álbum Españoleta interpretando obras de compositores españoles y portugueses de los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII.
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This podcast spotlights Israeli mandolinist Alon Sariel, who provides an entree into the engaging world of the mandolin, an instrument that perhaps enjoys a relatively low profile but commands a fascinating global reach. Alon Sariel's second album of transcriptions of works by J. S. Bach for mandolin blends technical precision with nuanced artistry…
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Marin Alsop discusses her latest release – an album of orchestral works by John Adams – with Raymond Bisha, exploring just what it is about Adams' music that makes him the leading nominee for the title of America's greatest living composer, not least for scores that inhabit 'the groove' with conspicuous relish.…
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El violinista argentino Tomás Cotik interpreta arreglos para violín y orquesta de cuerdas de Piazzolla.
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Louis Wayne Ballard (1931-2007) – also known as 'Honganozhe', which means 'Stands with Eagles' in the Quapaw language – was the first indigenous North American composer of art music, and his extensive knowledge of the music, dance and mythology of this culture informed his compositions. This podcast reviews a new album of his works that are eclecti…
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El tenor mexicano Javier Camarena presenta su nueva grabación "Sogno" con un programa compuesto por melodías de Francesco Paolo Tosti.
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This podcast from the Sounds Interesting series takes a musical week, a day at a time. Links to the music featured in this podcast: George Bogatko In a Monday Mood (8.572835) Richard Danielpour Mardi Gras (8.559669) Edmund Rubbra Judas mercator pessimus (8.555255) Kenneth Fuchs Holy Thursday (8.559753) Benjamin Britten Fishing song (8.553183) Aaron…
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In January 2024, Finnish accordionist/conductor Janne Valkeajoki released a captivating album of music by French Baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau, which Valkeajoki himself arranged for his instrument. Raymond Bisha's conversation with the performer delves into the various musical transformations and performance mechanics that were involved in …
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El director de orquesta Rafael Payare nos hable acerca de su nueva grabación Pentatone dirigiendo a la Orquesta sinfónica de Montreal interpretando obras de Richard Strauss y Gustav Mahler.
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Orfeo Vecchi was held in high regard by his contemporaries for the sacred music he produced towards the end of the 16th century. Raymond Bisha introduces a new recording of the twenty pieces that comprise his third book of Motets for Six Voices. The works form a rich, eclectic programme, and the performances by Cappella Musicale Eusebiana directed …
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Raymond Bisha introduces a new album of works for string quartet by Florence Price and Leo Sowerby, who were both prominent members of the Chicago music community in the 1930s and 1940s. Most of Florence Price’s compositions remained unpublished at her death, and her String Quartet in A minor was not performed in her lifetime. Her Five Folksongs in…
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El pianista Goran Filipec nos habla acerca de su nuevo álbum, el noveno volumen de las obras para piano de Béla Bartók.
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Raymond Bisha's latest podcast introduces the world premiere recording of Joseph Rheinberger's arrangement for two pianos of Bach's Goldberg Variations. Composed by Bach in 1741, the work fell into oblivion before re-emerging as part of a movement of discovery generations later. In order to breathe new life into them, such masterpieces might underg…
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George Gershwin's ever popular Rhapsody in Blue was first performed in February 1924. To mark the centenary of that celebrated event, pianist Jeffrey Biegel commissioned composer Peter Boyer to write a work for piano and orchestra that would be a 21st-century partner to Gershwin's original. Raymond Bisha talks to both composer and soloist about the…
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El flautista José Valentino Ruiz-Resto nos habla acerca del nuevo álbum Ariel Ramírez Reimagined en donde se presentan dos obras para solistas, coro y conjunto instrumental del reconocido compositor argentino Ariel Ramírez.
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Raymond Bisha introduces a programme of works for piano and orchestra by Chopin, performed by legendary pianist Abbey Simon. Once hailed by renowned critic Harold C. Schonberg of The New York Times as a “supervirtuoso”, Simon was a great American pianist in the great Romantic tradition, who imbued his effortless virtuoso technique with a uniformly …
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El violinista Emmanuele Baldini nos habla acerca de la nueva grabación Naxos con obras para violín y chelo del compositor brasileño Almeida Prado.
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Raised in Medellín, Colombia, Billy Arcila has lived in the United States for over 40 years, where he teaches and performs as one of California’s foremost guitarists. In this podcast, Raymond Bisha presents the first album to be made of his music. Performed by the composer himself, it contains works written across Ancila's entire compositional life…
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La directora polaca Marzena Diakun nos habla en este podcast acerca de su visión de la música de Brahms y de su trabajo con la Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid (ORCAM).
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A podcast featuring the Valencia Baryton Project and their new recording of music by Franz Joseph Haydn. Haydn was music director of the Esterházy Court at Eisenstadt for twenty-five years. It was where Prince Nikolaus commissioned him to write trios for the baryton, a bowed, stringed instrument similar to the viol but with extra plucked strings th…
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El violinista Tomás Cotik interpreta arreglos para violín solo de las suites escritas originalmente para violonchelo solo de Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Raymond Bisha introduces the fifteenth and final volume in Konstantin Scherbakov's recordings of the complete piano works of Leopold Godowsky, on the Marco Polo label, in which the programme comprises a number of the arrangements Godowsky made of Chopin's Études. Reflecting on his mammoth undertaking, the virtuoso pianist notes that “this project t…
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This podcast from the Sounds Interesting series considers the roots and branches of trees featured in a selection of traditional Christmas carols in various styles. Links to the music featured in this podcast: Roderick Elms Cherry Tree Carol (8.570793) Bob Chilcott Cherry Tree Carol (8.573159) Imogen Holst As I sat under a holly tree (8.573991) Pet…
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La cornista española María Rubio nos habla acerca de su nuevo álbum "Se hace saber" en donde interpreta un programa compuesto de obras de compositores contemporáneos.
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El guitarrista y productor discográfico Agustín Maruri presenta su nuevo álbum "Guitar Love Songs" grabado para el sello HR Recordings.
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Conductor Stanisław Skrowaczewski spent 19 years as music director of the Minnesota Orchestra, from 1960 to 1979, during which time he developed it into one of the finest orchestras in North America. They made many recordings together, mostly for the VOX and Mercury labels, from which Raymond Bisha has selected two remastered albums from the VOX ca…
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This podcast from the Sounds Interesting series spotlights a selection of fanfares composed for a variety of occasions during the last century. Links to the music featured in this podcast: Maurice Ravel L’Éventail de Jeanne (8.573354) Morton Gould Fanfare for Freedom (8.572629) William Alwyn Fanfare for a Joyful Occasion (8.570705) David Robert Col…
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La soprano española María Hinojosa nos presenta las arias y melodías que fueron interpretadas por María Antonia Vallejo Fernández, que en el Madrid de fines del siglo XVIII se llamó La Caramba.
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Stanisław Skrowaczewski spent 19 years as music director of the Minnesota Orchestra, from 1960 to 1979, during which time he developed it into one of the finest orchestras in North America. They made many recordings together, mostly for the VOX and Mercury labels, from which Raymond Bisha has selected two remastered albums from the VOX catalogue th…
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Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos was also an accomplished guitarist and cellist, and his wonderful music for the latter instrument takes full advantage of the lyrical and dramatic capabilities of the instrument. In this episode of Naxos Classical Spotlight, Raymond Bisha explores a new recording of his two Cello Concertos, together with his Fa…
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