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In May this year, the Concertgebouw – Amsterdam's legendary concert hall – played host to the 2025 Mahler Festival. Originally scheduled for 2000, the centenary of the first such event, but moved back by five years due to the pandemic, the Mahler Festival saw all of Mahler's symp ... Show More

Mao Fujita, who took second prize in the Piano category at the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition, released an album on Sony Classical of 72 preludes back in the autumn of 2024 – the three sets of 24 by Chopin, Scriabin and Akio Yashiro. Now as a pendant to that project he has recorded ... Show More

The composer, academic and writer Robin Holloway has just published a new book, Music's Odyssey, An Invitation to Western Classical Music (Allen Lane). He's Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge, where James Jolly went to visit him a couple of weeks ago to ta ... Show More

Captain, We Hit A Schoenberg! Did Arnold Schoenberg break Classical music? Widely considered the greatest composer of the 20th century, Schoenburg’s innovations in ‘atonality’ (a term he detested throughout his life) changed the trajectory of music forever. In this episode, Joann ... Show More

Peter Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake: Waltz Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Michael Halasz, conductor More info about today’s track: Naxos 8.578205 Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc. Subscribe You can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS f ... Show More

Giuseppe Verdi - Otello: Fuoco di Gioia Slovak Philharmonic Chorus Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Oliver von Dohnanyi, conductor More info about today’s track: Naxos 8.550241 Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc. Subscribe You can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by u ... Show More

Giuseppe Verdi - Nabucco: Overture Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor More info about today’s track: Naxos 8.553089 Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc. Subscribe You can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast ... Show More

Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt: Morning Mood CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice Stephen Gunzenhauser, conductor More info about today's track: Naxos 8.550140 Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc. Subscribe You can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Dail ... Show More

Gabriel Faure - Requiem: In Paradisum Lisa Beckley, soprano Oxford Schola Cantorum Oxford Camerata Jeremy Summerly, conductor More info about today’s track: Naxos 8.550765 Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc. Subscribe You can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using ... Show More

Franz Schubert - Auf dem See Johannes Kalpers, tenor Burkhard Kehring, piano More info about today’s track: Naxos 8.554667 Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc. Subscribe You can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed. Purchase th ... Show More

Franz Liszt - Years of Pilgrimage: Eclogue Jeno Jando, piano More info about today’s track: Naxos 8.550548 Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc. Subscribe You can subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts, or by using the Daily Download podcast RSS feed. Purchase this recording Ama ... Show More

Henri Vieuxtemps - Variations on a Theme from Bellini's 'Il Pirata' Reto Kuppel, violin Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra Marcus Bosch, conductor More info about today’s track: Naxos 8.573993 Courtesy of Naxos of America Inc. Subscribe You can subscribe to this podcast in  ... Show More