Sounds Interesting Archives - The Naxos Blog https://blog.naxos.com/category/podcast/sounds-interesting/ Updates from the world's leading classical music label Wed, 03 Apr 2024 06:08:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/blog.naxos.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-naxos-logo.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Sounds Interesting Archives - The Naxos Blog https://blog.naxos.com/category/podcast/sounds-interesting/ 32 32 Sounds Interesting Archives - The Naxos Blog false Sounds Interesting Archives - The Naxos Blog podcast Sounds Interesting Archives - The Naxos Blog https://blog.naxos.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg https://blog.naxos.com/category/podcast/sounds-interesting/ Weekly 2487256 Sounds Interesting: Day in, day out. https://blog.naxos.com/2024/04/05/sounds-interesting-day-in-day-out/ https://blog.naxos.com/2024/04/05/sounds-interesting-day-in-day-out/#respond Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:00:30 +0000 https://blog.naxos.com/?p=10374 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 Read More ...

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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 Copland Saturday Night Waltz (8.571202)
Peter Breiner Sunday Morning on Sunday (8.574257)

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]]> https://blog.naxos.com/2024/04/05/sounds-interesting-day-in-day-out/feed/ 0 Sounds Interesting Archives - The Naxos Blog full false 31:53 10374 Sounds Interesting: Cherry Christmas https://blog.naxos.com/2023/12/22/sounds-interesting-cherry-christmas/ https://blog.naxos.com/2023/12/22/sounds-interesting-cherry-christmas/#comments Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:00:20 +0000 https://blog.naxos.com/?p=10196 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 Read More ...

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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)
Peter Warlock As I sat under a sycamore tree (8.572102)
John Rutter The Holly and the Ivy (8.557581)
Stuart Thompson The Holly and the Ivy (8.573421)
Peter Breiner O Tannenbaum (8.550301)
Javier Hagen O Tannenbaum (MGB-6204)

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]]> https://blog.naxos.com/2023/12/22/sounds-interesting-cherry-christmas/feed/ 1 Sounds Interesting Archives - The Naxos Blog full false 25:03 10196 Sounds Interesting: All the Fun of the Fanfare https://blog.naxos.com/2023/11/17/sounds-interesting-all-the-fun-of-the-fanfare/ https://blog.naxos.com/2023/11/17/sounds-interesting-all-the-fun-of-the-fanfare/#comments Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:00:12 +0000 https://blog.naxos.com/?p=10135 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 Read More ...

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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 Coleman Fanfare and Palimpsest (9.70202)
Peter Boyer Silver Fanfare (8.559769)
Aaron Copland Fanfare for the Common Man (8.572917)

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]]> https://blog.naxos.com/2023/11/17/sounds-interesting-all-the-fun-of-the-fanfare/feed/ 1 Sounds Interesting Archives - The Naxos Blog full false 25:15 10135 Sounds Interesting: Repetition, repetition, repetition https://blog.naxos.com/2023/06/30/sounds-interesting-repetition-repetition-repetition/ https://blog.naxos.com/2023/06/30/sounds-interesting-repetition-repetition-repetition/#comments Thu, 29 Jun 2023 16:00:18 +0000 https://blog.naxos.com/?p=9465 This podcast from the Sounds Interesting series takes repetition as its theme, a musical technique that has long served composers very well, time and time and time again. Henry Purcell, Dmitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten provide the musical examples.     Links to the music featured in this podcast: Henry Purcell: Evening Hymn (8.557129) Dmitri Read More ...

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Links to the music featured in this podcast:

Henry Purcell: Evening Hymn (8.557129)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 (8.573271)
Benjamin Britten: Violin Concerto (8.557198)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (C71004)
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes (8.557196)
Henry Purcell: Chacony in G minor (8.554262)

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]]> https://blog.naxos.com/2023/06/30/sounds-interesting-repetition-repetition-repetition/feed/ 3 Sounds Interesting Archives - The Naxos Blog full false 58:51 9465 Sounds Interesting. Phrases of the loon. https://blog.naxos.com/2022/12/30/sounds-interesting-phrases-of-the-loon/ https://blog.naxos.com/2022/12/30/sounds-interesting-phrases-of-the-loon/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2022 16:00:50 +0000 https://blog.naxos.com/?p=8980 This podcast from the Sounds Interesting series spotlights music expressed through the prism of madness in a range of contexts, from the world of fantasy to the theatre of war.             Links to the music featured in this podcast: Peter Maxwell Davies: 8 Songs for a Mad King (8.558191-92) William Read More ...

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Links to the music featured in this podcast:

Peter Maxwell Davies: 8 Songs for a Mad King (8.558191-92)
William Bolcom: The crazy woman (8.559249)
Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (8.660255-56)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (8.553438)
Robert Jager: Suite from Edvard Munch (9.70023)
Ge Gan-ru: String Quartet No. 5, “Fall of Baghdad” (8.570603)
Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe (8.557075)

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]]> https://blog.naxos.com/2022/12/30/sounds-interesting-phrases-of-the-loon/feed/ 3 Sounds Interesting Archives - The Naxos Blog full false 32:12 8980 Sounds Interesting. You ditty rats! https://blog.naxos.com/2022/07/29/sounds-interesting-you-ditty-rats/ https://blog.naxos.com/2022/07/29/sounds-interesting-you-ditty-rats/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2022 16:00:23 +0000 https://blog.naxos.com/?p=8606 This podcast from the Sounds Interesting series takes rats as its theme, a topic that, perhaps surprisingly, has caught the attention of composers across the world and down the ages.             Links to the music featured in this podcast: Robert Jager: The Pied Piper of Hamelin (9.70023) Anon: The Famous Read More ...

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Links to the music featured in this podcast:

Robert Jager: The Pied Piper of Hamelin (9.70023)
Anon: The Famous Ratcatcher (8.557672)
Ruth Crawford Seeger: Rat Riddles (8.559197)
Benjamin Britten: Our Hunting Fathers (8.557206)
Chiayu: 12 Signs (8.559713)

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]]> https://blog.naxos.com/2022/07/29/sounds-interesting-you-ditty-rats/feed/ 2 8606 Sounds Interesting: Found in translation. https://blog.naxos.com/2022/04/29/sounds-interesting-found-in-translation/ https://blog.naxos.com/2022/04/29/sounds-interesting-found-in-translation/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:00:52 +0000 https://blog.naxos.com/?p=8431 This podcast from the Sounds Interesting series examines how a musical composition can be pampered by alternative wardrobes, when an original is dressed in different presentations of style and instrumentation while retaining its core character.             Links to the music featured in this podcast: Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in Read More ...

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Links to the music featured in this podcast:

Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, arr. Schoenberg (8.557524)
J. S. Bach: Fantasy and Fugue in C minor, arr. Elgar (8.572741)
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (C71047)
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, arr. Ravel (8.110105)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Parafrazi, “Chopsticks”, arr. Tcherepnin (9.80607)
Wallace: Maritana, opera (8.660308-09)
Wallace: Grande Fantaisie sur des thèmes de l’opéra Maritana, solo piano (8.572774)

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]]> https://blog.naxos.com/2022/04/29/sounds-interesting-found-in-translation/feed/ 1 Sounds Interesting Archives - The Naxos Blog full false 30:25 8431 Sounds Interesting: Oxymoron for Orchestra https://blog.naxos.com/2021/12/31/sounds-interesting-oxymoron-for-orchestra/ https://blog.naxos.com/2021/12/31/sounds-interesting-oxymoron-for-orchestra/#comments Thu, 30 Dec 2021 16:00:34 +0000 https://blog.naxos.com/?p=8179 This podcast from the Naxos Sounds Interesting series focuses on a selection of concertos written not for household-name soloists, but for the collective virtuosity of an orchestra’s serried ranks.           Links to the music featured in this podcast: Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra (8.571201) Malipiero, Concerto for Orchestra (8.573291) Joan Tower, Concerto Read More ...

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Links to the music featured in this podcast:

Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra (8.571201)
Malipiero, Concerto for Orchestra (8.573291)
Joan Tower, Concerto for Orchestra (8.559328)
Bernstein, Concerto for Orchestra, “Jubilee Games” (8.559100)
Hindemith, Concerto for Orchestra (9.81113)
Cassella, Concerto for Orchestra (8.573004)
Shchedrin, Concerto for Orchestra (8.553038, 8.572405)
Lutosławski, Concerto for Orchestra (8.553779)

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]]> https://blog.naxos.com/2021/12/31/sounds-interesting-oxymoron-for-orchestra/feed/ 3 Sounds Interesting Archives - The Naxos Blog full false 31:27 8179 Sounds Interesting: Sounds disastrous https://blog.naxos.com/2021/10/29/sounds-interesting-sounds-disastrous/ https://blog.naxos.com/2021/10/29/sounds-interesting-sounds-disastrous/#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:00:51 +0000 https://blog.naxos.com/?p=7981 This podcast from the Naxos Sounds Interesting series introduces a selection of classical music items associated with natural disasters, from Biblical times to modern eras.           Links to the music featured in this podcast: Genesis Suite (8.559442) The Plow that Broke the Plains (8.559291) Fighting Against Typhoon (8.225902) Job’s Dream. Dance Read More ...

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Links to the music featured in this podcast:

Genesis Suite (8.559442)
The Plow that Broke the Plains (8.559291)
Fighting Against Typhoon (8.225902)
Job’s Dream. Dance of Plague, Pestilence, Famine and Battle (8.553955)
Unter Donner und Blitz (8.552115-16)


 
Featured Image: “The Great Flood” by Jan Nagel / Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

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]]> https://blog.naxos.com/2021/10/29/sounds-interesting-sounds-disastrous/feed/ 1 7981 Sounds Interesting: The barbers of the quill. https://blog.naxos.com/2021/07/30/sounds-interesting-the-barbers-of-the-quill/ https://blog.naxos.com/2021/07/30/sounds-interesting-the-barbers-of-the-quill/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:00:45 +0000 https://blog.naxos.com/?p=7767 This podcast from the Naxos Sounds Interesting series introduces a selection of classical music items associated with male personal grooming experts, either by profession or name.          

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