Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra

Podcast: Villa-Lobos: Symphonies 8, 9 and 11

Posted on2 June, 201726 February, 2018AuthorNaxosLeave a comment

Heitor Villa-Lobos is probably the best known of all South American composers. His contribution to Brazilian music—in education, in community projects, in the concert hall—was all-pervasive. Raymond Bisha drops in on Naxos’ ongoing project to record all his symphonies in a new edition that was launched in 2011 by the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra’s publishing Read More …

Insight, foresight. Klaus Heymann at 80.

Posted on14 October, 201626 February, 2018AuthorNaxos4 Comments

Klaus Heymann, the German-born entrepreneur and visionary force in the classical music recording industry, celebrates his 80th birthday on October 22, 2016. His name needs no introduction to people familiar with this website, a name synonymous with making classical music available to a much wider audience than was the case prior to his founding in Read More …