Updates from the world's leading classical music label
Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Oehms Classics label (OC528) presents a performance of the second movement from Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 6. Much of Mendelssohn’s chamber music is gracefully Read More …
Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Naxos label (8.555310) is taken from Monteverdi’s Fourth Book of Madrigals, published in 1603. The collection continued the expressive innovation that had characterised his Read More …
Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Ondine label (ODE1060-2) features a short piano movement by Sergei Prokofiev. In 1940, the Bolshoi Theatre commissioned Prokofiev to write a new full-length ballet, Read More …
Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Dynamic label (CDS499) is an extract from Richard Strauss’ tragic opera Daphne in a scene featuring the conflicting characters of Daphne, a nymph (soprano), Read More …
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. And they conveniently trace the composer’s startlingly divergent stylistic output, from the wild-as-it-comes 1960 String Quartet No.1 Read More …
Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Capriccio label (C67124) is supplied by Italian Baroque composer Antonio Caldara (1670–1736), one of the most famous and glittering personalities of his time. Featuring Read More …
Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Orfeo label (C622051A) is a movement from Franz Anton Hoffmeister’s Sinfonia concertante No. 1 for two clarinets and orchestra. Hoffmeister, both a composer and Read More …
If you know that sharks have teeth, dear, then that’s probably because Kurt Weill told you so in his song “Mack the Knife”. Pearly white they may be, too, but what else did Kurt Weill do? Mahagonny-something. Right. If you’re as ignorant as Jens, when it comes to matters Weill, join our podcast and let Read More …
Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Naxos label (8.557611) features British composer Michael Tippett’s piano sonatas, specifically the neo-classical First Sonata which, in Tippett’s own words, is “a young man’s Read More …
Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime. This week’s pick from the Ondine label (ODE1041-2) is a movement from Cantus arcticus by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928–2016). It’s a highly original orchestral work that incorporates recorded Read More …