Classic Music Podcast

New Year; New Composers as Laurence Lewis hosts our Podcast exploring  Paul Wranitzky and Maddelena Lombardini Sirmen on MSR Classics with The Vivaldi Project, Valentin Bibik on Pavlik Records with violinist Milan Pala and collective improvisations with Anna Romanovska, Petr Tichy, Michal Hruby and Hana Blazikova on Hevhetia with their album, I Am One Of Us Forever.  Playing Time: 11.10mins.

In this edition Laurence Lewis introduces the rarely heard Piano Sonata by Frank Bridge, played by Sally Pinkas on her latest MSR Classics release that is set against his pupil Benjamin Britten whose Young Apollo is played by Joshua Pierce on his MSR Classics disc that has music for piano and orchestra  in which the piano is not a solo instrument but a part of the orchestra.  There's also the complex Third Sonata for Violin and Piano by Alfred Schnittke, featuring, on his new Pavlik Records release,  violinist Milan Pala.  Playing Time: 9.27 mins.

Laurence Lewis takes our Classic Music Podcast Extra to The London International Festival of Early Music, held between 11th - 13th November 2021, at Blackheath Halls in South London, to meet the instrument makers and performers at the largest event of its kind.  Expect great insights into Early Music and weird and wonderful sounds.  Playing Time: 26.48 mins. 

Previously heard in our discontinued Czech Music Radio Show, our interview with British composer Andrew Downes marked the release on Czech label Artesmon of his Four Symphonies played by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.  Playing Time: 39.47 mins.

Our November Classic Music Podcast opens with the sound of period instrument basset horns played by Lotz Trio, who have reconstructed Mozart's Terzetti into their correct sequences.  Irina Feoktistova explores Chopin the Enchanter, while Slovakian band KOPA release pulsating beats.  Laurence Lewis hosts this eclectic mix of new discs on labels by Pavlik Records, MSR Classics and Hev-Het Tune.  Playing Time: 8.49 mins.

Laurence Lewis introduces music by Bela Keler, the composer who composed the celebrated 5th Hungarian Dance by Brahms.  String Quartets are rebooted by Turkish-American composer Erberk Eryilmaz with his Dances of the Yogurt Maker.  Percussionist Tommy Caggiani and his Therion Project are Watching Plants Grow.  New releases by Hevhetia and MSR Classics.  Playing Time: 11.19mins.

A special edition highlighting new releases by Slovakian label Pavlik Records - a reimagined version of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, Images with Jordana Palovicova and Jan Cikker's Symphonic Triptych - On Life.  Hosted by Laurence Lewis.  Playing Time: 11.03 mins.

In which Michael O'Connor talks, on a Zoom line from Florida, to Laurence Lewis in London about, The Gilded Age,  Late 19th Century American Wind Band music featured on his recent release on MSR Classics by Newberry's Victorian Cornet Band.  Composers include - Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, Verdi, Bellini, Thomas Coates, August Damm and John Philip Sousa.  Playing Time: 22.27 mins. 

In our August edition, Laurence Lewis highlights new releases by MSR Classics and Hevhetia of three contrasting instruments  - Piano, Cimbalom and Violin.  Playing Time: 10.23 mins.  

In this edition host Laurence Lewis, invites you to find the Illuminating music of Curt Cacioppo.  There's a gift of French masterworks from Bulgarian violinist Zornitsa Ilarionova.  While pianist Jerry Wong plays a selection of pieces describing Love and Longing by Franz Liszt.  Playing Time: 8.27 mins.