Naxos Classical Music Spotlight Podcast

An interview with Jose Serebrier about his new recording with "The President's Own" United States Marine Band. Serebrier discusses the composers on this disc, including Bizet, Revueltas, Ginastera and Villa Lobos

A podcast introduction to Lise de la Salle's new recording of the first piano concertos by Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Liszt, three concertos that all had their first performances with the composer at the piano

In 1929, Dmitri Shostakovich wrote music for a feature length film called Odna (Alone). Although some of the film has been lost, this astonishing score has been meticulously re-constructed by Mark Fitz-Gerald.

Elliott Carter is the "Dean of American composers". At the age of 99, still actively composing, he has a perspective and depth of knowledge that few can match. In this podcast, he talks about his string quartets, and the development of his compositional ideas.

Elliott Carter is the "Dean of American composers". At the age of 99, still actively composing, he has a perspective and depth of knowledge that few can match. In this podcast, Sibbi Bernhardsson of the Pacifica Quartet talks about learning and performing his String Quartets

Brundibar was first performed in 1943 in the Terezin concentration camp. Of the 15,000 children who passed through this camp, only 132 survived. This podcast features an interview with Ela Stein Weissberger - one of those who survived, and who took part in those original productions of this children's opera.

A brief introduction to Vivaldi's opera Griselda, based on a story that appeared in Boccacio's book The Decameron, that had been published several hundred years earlier.

An interview with American composer James Hartway in which he talks about his new CD, how commissioners affect composers, and the delights of his mother making him take piano lessons

Raymond Bisha discusses the life and music of Leroy Anderson

Raymond Bisha discusses the life and music of Domenico Cimarosa

Raymond Bisha discusses Vaughan Williams' Hodie

Raymond Bisha interviews Maestro Jose Serebrier about his Grammy nominated CD Shostakovich: The Golden Age

Raymond Bisha interviews composer Gloria Coates

Raymond Bisha discusses the history of the Black Dyke Band

Raymond Bisha discusses Respighi's Church Windows - An Interview with JoAnn Falletta

Raymond Bisha discusses Bela Bartok's creepy yet magnificent opera Bluebeard's Castle performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Raymond Bisha discusses Joseph Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne

Raymond Bisha discusses the importance of Virgil Thomson's score to the film, The Plow That Broke the Plains.

Raymond Bisha chats with Gary Green about his undiminished passion for winds and new comminsioned works from David Maslanka and Thomas Sleeper

Raymond Bisha discusses the life and works of Stokowski with Jose Serebrier"