19 episodes

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 help you discover classical works in a new and interesting way. Text versions can be found at blog.naxos.com.

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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 help you discover classical works in a new and interesting way. Text versions can be found at blog.naxos.com.

    Repetition, repetition, repetition

    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, time and time and time again. 

    • 58 min
    Phrases of the Loon

    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 of fantasy to the theatre of war.

    • 32 min
    You ditty rats!

    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. 

    • 22 min
    Found in Translation

    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 style and instrumentation while retaining its core character.

    • 30 min
    Oxymoron for Orchestra

    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 ranks.

    • 31 min
    Sounds disastrous

    Sounds disastrous

    This episode introduces a selection of classical music items associated with natural disasters, from Biblical times to modern eras.

    • 28 min

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