Naxos: Sounds Interesting
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Naxos: Sounds Interesting
The Naxos Sounds Interesting podcasts explore the riches of classical music. The series covers an engaging potpourri of musical topics with each episode focusing on a new musical theme, whether based around a particular composer or concept. Presenter Richard Kennedy takes you on a musical journey to...
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Repetition, repetition, repetition
This podcast episode from the Sounds Interesting series takes repetition as its theme, a musical technique that has long served composers very well, t...
Phrases of the Loon
This podcast episode from the Sounds Interesting series spotlights music expressed through the prism of madness in a range of contexts, from the world...
You ditty rats!
This episode takes rats as its theme, a topic that, perhaps surprisingly, has caught the attention of composers across the world and down the ages.
Found in Translation
This episode examines how a musical composition can be pampered by alternative wardrobes, when an original is dressed in different presentations of st...
Oxymoron for Orchestra
This episode focuses on a selection of concertos written not for household-name soloists, but for the collective virtuosity of an orchestra's serried...
Sounds disastrous
This episode introduces a selection of classical music items associated with natural disasters, from Biblical times to modern eras.
Barbers of the Quill
This episode introduces a selection of classical music items associated with male personal grooming experts, either by profession or name.
Alma: Her Life, Loves, Lieder
The life of Mahler’s wife, Alma, was as multi-faceted as her several talents, that ranged from competent composer to sizzling socialite. This episode...
In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
This episode spotlights a collection of unfortunate musicians who became hostages of war at the outbreak of the First World War and whose story is as...
From Winding Stairs to Whippoorwill
An overview of the life, times and music of Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů, whose free spirit ranged both musically and geographically during the fir...
Leaving a Legacy
Composers can’t always hang around waiting for a visit by Euterpe, the ancient Greek Muse of music, to sow a seed of inspiration for their next compos...
Going Gothic
Gothic art feeds off deathly horror, and music from the Romantic period especially tapped into its creative possibilities. This episode contains a sel...
A Witty Ditty
This episode highlights some humorous lines from the pens of the past masters.
A Magnificent Seven
This episode spotlights the contributions of seven composers who made significant, but neglected contributions to the heritage of American symphonic m...
Rainbows
The rainbow. A beautiful natural phenomenon with its terminus of an illusionary pot of gold. A bridge to nowhere. Except in the imagination, that is....
Humming Bees
With temperatures shifting unpredictably, the hibernating bee must occasionally get confused about when it’s time to rise from slumber and resume its...
Sleeping Beauties
Did you know J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations were originally written to help alleviate a nobleman’s insomnia? Knowing few bounds, music is well place...
From Mandalay to Tinseltown: an excursion with Rudyard Kipling
This episode focuses on music inspired by the works of Rudyard Kipling, the celebrated journalist, editor, poet, and novelist. Kipling’s literary work...
Carlo Gesualdo – a chromatic scale of life.
He murdered his wife and her lover, then paid a price of torment for the rest of his life, the anguish often oozing from his searing harmonies. This p...