A piano recital, an organ recital and music for brass quintet feature in our Classic Music Podcast for March.  Composers include - Alban Berg, Milos Stedron and Kevin McKee.  Laurence Lewis introduces - Katarina Palova, piano, 17 year old organist Adam Suk and Brassworks.  Playing Time: 9.11 mins ..read more

In our February selection Laurence Lewis introduces an eclectic range of music.  Featured are Ukrainian composer Valentin Bibik's Sonatas for Viola.  South Korean singer Minjin Seo (recorded in New York) offers a selection from the Great American Songbook.  Czech soprano, Lucie Strejcova sings aphoristic songs by Thomas Campion.  While the New England Conservatory Symphonic Winds unleash James Stephenson's It's About Time from their album, It's About Time.  Playing Time: 10.10 mins ..read more

Laurence Lewis and literary historian Goretta Bronte, go in search of the Bloomsbury Musician.  Along their way they encounter writers and poets, a relative of Oliver Cromwell, Fanny and Stella, who caused a Victorian sex scandal  that became a media sensation, and a comic legend.  Playing Time: 23.08 mins ..read more

Laurence Lewis introduces Martin Budinsky playing the Concerto in A for Cimbalom by  Peter Jantosciak.  An organ built in 1787 is showcased by Iveta Zatkova, with music by Claudio Merulo and Herbert Howells.  From under the peak of Rozsutec there are carols, from two small villages, reimagined by Slovakian Folk band, Nebeska Muzika.  Playing Time: 12.12mins ..read more

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 ..read more

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.   ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

A Special Podcast Extra - Stream for Solidarity.  https://player.believe.fr/v2/8588002496998  Under a White Tree, with Ukrainian singer Mariia Guraievska, from her Hevhetia album, Water Nymphs (2012).  Playing Time: 3.29mins ..read more

Jason Calloway, cellist with the Amernet String Quartet, discusses with Laurence Lewis their new two CD MSR Classics release highlighting composers who have connections to Alabama.  Playing Time: 13.23 mins ..read more