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Tonus Peregrinus Photo: Ian Dingle

BBC Radio 3’s Early Music Show recently featured music selected from six Naxos discs recorded by Tonus Peregrinus. The group specialises in both early and contemporary music, but for the BBC programme it was music that marked a series of ‘firsts’ that came under the spotlight: the first in the history of early polyphony, the first music in four parts, the first complete polyphonic mass setting and the first English …more

Now the always provocative Italian choreographer has expanded his earlier version into a full-length work, allowing for further dramatic definition, …more

Marin Alsop

The largest music festival in the world has been going strong for well over a century, introducing a huge variety of classical works to people around the globe in biblical numbers, but the BBC’s Promenade Concerts have never stuck their neck out to appoint a woman conductor for their iconic Last Night of the Proms. That line in the sand has now been crossed with the news that Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and princip …more

19th Century music in Italy was dominated by Opera and by the great composers such as Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini. But at the end of the Century, a new generation of young composers tried to …more

Naxos and its distributed labels have been recently dominating ClassicsToday.com’s 10/10 list with album releases encompassing a variety of genres from orchestral to sacred choral music and inspired by colourful nationalistic backgrounds from Hungary, Poland, UK, Germany and Italy.

Naxos CDs

ALDRIDGE Elmer Gantry
Naxos 8.669032-33
‘Baritone Keith Phares’ performance of Gantry makes me wish I&rsq …more

Naxos CDs

ALDRIDGE Elmer Gantry
Naxos 8.669032-33
‘Baritone Keith Phares’ performance of Gantry makes me wish I’d seen the show: his ch …more

Kevin Mallon

Kevin Mallon is a hard man to pin down. Not because he’s particularly elusive (though he is mightily busy)—let alone reclusive (he’s affability itself)—but because of the sheer breadth of his interests and activities. He is a lifelong stranger to the pigeonhole. American-born but educated in Britain, he’s now based in Canada. There he founded the renowned period instrument ensemble Aradia in 1996, since when he’s neve …more