Classic Music Podcast

November is discover a composer month?  MSR Classics offer cello pieces by Georg Goltermann (1824 - 1898), and Early Music collected under the title of Fortuna Antiqua et Ultra with Concordia Dawn Ensemble for Early Music.  For Pavlik Records, Ladislav Fanzowitz looks for some Saxophone Connections by Ernst-Lothar von Knorr and Nikolai Kapustin.  Hosted by Laurence Lewis.  Playing Time: 11.33 mins.

October and new releases by Pavlk Records and period instrument band, Il Cuore Barocco restoring French Baroque master Joseph Bodin De Boismortier.  Hevhetia finds soprano Maria Taytakova's Impressions selects songs by Duparc, Faure, Debussy, Berg and Slovakian composers - Jan Zimmer, Ladislav Holoubek and Dezider Kardos.  MSR Classics feature Grieg's Three Violin Sonatas reimagined for Flute and played by Kaleb Chesnic.  A collection of music that crosses many paths, hosted by Laurence Lewis.  Playing Time: 12.49 mins.

In this edition, live from the Southbank Centre in London,  Laurence Lewis introduces a selection of instrumental releases by American label MSR Classics featuring the cello, viola and piano duo.  Music by Gaspar Cassado, Marcelle Soulage and Ravel.  Playing Time: 9.45 mins.

In our August Classic Music Podcast Laurence Lewis invites you to discover the quirky Piano Sonatas by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach played by David Murray, on MSR Classics, the Missa in A by Bohemian Baroque Master -  Antonin Jan Nepomuk Brossman, released by Czech label Arta  and new orchestral music by Barbara Harbach played by the London Philhamonic Orhestra, on MSR Classics.  Playing Time: 9.32 mins.

Surrounded by LPs, in his shop in Walthamstow, East London, Mike Gerber talks to Laurence Lewis about his route to selling historic and rare LPs.  Along the way there are some authentic LP sounds.  Playing Time: 25.51 mins.  

Solo instrumental releases featuring the violin of Marie Cantagrill, the cornetto of Richard Seda and the piano of Martha Marchena.  She plays pieces by Heitor Villa-Lobos, there's music from the 16th and 17th centuries for Richard Seda to explore and Marie Cantagrill is moving between Ombre and Lumiere on her new album.  In Licentia Poetica, Elma Kais, with the latest in electronics and vocal sounds, attempts  to see if Ovid's thoughts of 2,000 years ago can be recreated.  Laurence Lewis is your guide.  Playing Time: 10.43 mins.

Live from the Business Design Centre at the Angel, Islington, in London, Laurence Lewis visits the first exhibition devoted to Podcasts.  Music by Jaroslav Kocian from Horizon(t).  Playing Time: 14.54mins.

In this edition Laurence Lewis introduces two World Premiere recordings in the ongoing series by Ensemble Inegal directed by Adam Viktora of music by Jan Dismas Zelenka, there's 20th Century Music for Flute and the Rediscovered Romantic Testimony of Vaclav Jindrich Veit.  Playing Time: 12.11 mins.

A two disc Pavlik Records set featuring bass-baritone Gustav Belacek, explores many different versions of Ave Maria down 405 years of musical history,  Laurence Lewis also introduces the latest instalment, on Czech label Arta,  of period instrument Musica Florea, conducted by Marek Strnycl, performing Dvorak's Symphony No. 6.  Playing Time: 11.21 mins.

Brahms Op. 120 for Viola and Violin, a surprise Hungarian March, a Swan and a Slovakian Concertino that's a musical bargain?  Hosted by Laurence Lewis.  Playing Time: 12.29mins.