Naxos Classical Spotlight
Naxos Classical Spotlight is an English-speaking podcast specialized in the field of classical music and opera. As such, Naxos Classical Spotlight is a podcast selected by soclassiq, like New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher or Crushing Classical and many others. The oldest episode indexed by soclassiq is dated 2016-09-23. Since then, a total of 155 episodes have been recorded and broadcast by Naxos Classical Spotlight.
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With 7 articles published in the last 90 days, Naxos Classical Spotlight is currently a not very active podcast. "Not very active" does not mean that Naxos Classical Spotlight is less interesting than another more prolific source. Each media follows a specific editorial line, recording and broadcasting according to its own rhythm.
This editorial activity is increasing compared to the previous period.
The last episode in Naxos Classical Spotlight, "Breathing new life into Orfeo Vecchi's motets for six voices.", is dated 2024-03-15. By 2023, this podcast had published 13 episodes (7 since the beginning of 2024).
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2024-03-15 13:00:00
Duration (h:m:s): 20:01
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 by Don …
2024-03-08 13:00:00
Duration (h:m:s): 20:01
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 Most of Florence Price’s compositions remained unpublished at her death, and her String Quartet in A minor was not performed in her lifetime.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 Counterpoint entwine and …
2024-02-23 23:35:00
Duration (h:m:s): 20:01
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 undergo arrangements, transcriptions and other manipulations. In this …
2024-02-19 13:47:00
Duration (h:m:s): 25:01
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 gestation of this celebratory new …
2024-02-09 17:00:00
Duration (h:m:s): 20:01
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 clear sound. Having passed away …
2024-01-26 17:00:00
Duration (h:m:s): 20:03
Raised in MedellĂn, 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, from his first published …
2024-01-12 17:00:00
Duration (h:m:s): 20:03
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 that enabled performers to …
2023-12-22 15:23:00
Duration (h:m:s): 20:01
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 to record Leopold Godowsky's complete piano works began …
2023-11-17 14:14:00
Duration (h:m:s): 20:01
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 catalogue that demonstrate their …
2023-11-07 13:12:00
Duration (h:m:s): 20:01
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 Fantasia for Cello and Orchestra, that features solo …