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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 (8.557628) is a string quartet by Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga, a precociously talented composer as well as an excellent violinist, who was Read More …
If you wanted to dance with somebody, in 19th century Vienna, Johann Strauss was your best bet to provide the soundtrack. But he wasn’t alone in churning out the waltzes and polkas and operettas – continental “light music” – that the city consumed at such a rapid rate. In this episode Jens and Joe explore 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 (ODE1040-2) spotlights Sibelius’ Fourth Symphony. The composer made the following diary entry in November 1910, with the work still in progress: “A 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 (C67139) is the Concerto for Bassoon and Low Strings that Sofia Gubaidulina composed in 1975 for Valeri Popov (b. 1937), the foremost 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 (8.557494) is of a song by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959). During the 1930s and early 1940s Martinů moved away from 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 catalogue (ODE1056-2) features music by the little-known late-Baroque German composer Johann Melchior Molter. Of his complete output (which included some 170 symphonies and 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 (C181051A) presents music by Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera, who died in 1983. During the final decade of his life, Ginastera returned to 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 (CDS479) is of music by Italian composer Giovanni Battista Viotti, who was born in 1755. In 1782 he performed at the Concert Read More …
Once upon a time, there was a tiny little man in Vienna, who composed the grandest operas. What started out with fairy-tale works of musical theatre did, alas, take a tragic end for Alexander Zemlinsky in the New World. In their latest podcast, Joe and Jens track this wildly underrated composer’s operatic career from Vienna 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 (C71028) is from a recording of the Flute Concerto by French composer Jacques Ibert (1890–1962). Composed in 1934, the work has often Read More …