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Sounds Interesting: Day in, day out.

Posted on5 April, 20243 April, 2024AuthorNaxosLeave a comment

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 …

Sounds Interesting: Cherry Christmas

Posted on22 December, 202318 December, 2023AuthorNaxos1 Comment

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 …

Sounds Interesting: All the Fun of the Fanfare

Posted on17 November, 202317 November, 2023AuthorNaxos1 Comment

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 …

Sounds Interesting: Repetition, repetition, repetition

Posted on30 June, 202329 June, 2023AuthorNaxos3 Comments

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.

Sounds Interesting. Phrases of the loon.

Posted on30 December, 202225 August, 2023AuthorNaxos3 Comments

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.

Sounds Interesting. You ditty rats!

Posted on29 July, 202218 August, 2023AuthorNaxos2 Comments

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.

Sounds Interesting: Found in translation.

Posted on29 April, 202225 August, 2023AuthorNaxos1 Comment

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 …

Sounds Interesting: Oxymoron for Orchestra

Posted on31 December, 202130 December, 2021AuthorNaxos3 Comments

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 …

Sounds Interesting: Sounds disastrous

Posted on29 October, 20218 September, 2023AuthorNaxos1 Comment

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.

Sounds Interesting: The barbers of the quill.

Posted on30 July, 20218 September, 2023AuthorNaxos1 Comment

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.