Listen to the renowned American pianist Tedd Joselson and pioneer surgeon Dr Susan Lim together in ‘companionship.' This podcast features conversation and music presenting two of Tedd Joselson's favourite concertos – the Grieg Piano Concerto and Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, along with the ‘Lim Fantasy of Companionship' for Piano & Orchestra, composed by Manu Martin. Led by conductor Arthur Fagen with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Grieg) and the Philharmonia Orchestra (Rachmaninov...
Dec 07, 2021•50 min
The International Chopin Piano competition is known for its incredible power to turn unknown prodigies into global standing. Among past winners are Maurizio Pollini, Martha Argerich, Garrick Ohlsson, Krystian Zimerman, Rafal Blechacz, and Seong-Jin Cho. Every five years (due to the limitations imposed in the wake of the pandemic, the competition was postponed from 2020 to 2021), the jury faces an almost impossible task, they have to select the best pianist out of over 500 outstandingly gifted an...
Dec 03, 2021•41 min
‘The Singing Guitar,’ 12 guitarists, 26 singers and a cellist, in new works by four American composers. Exploring the unique connection of voices and strings. Listeners experience an unusual musical journey on the Delos Music recording; ‘The Singing Guitar.’ Combining voices, guitars, and cello with Native American and non-native pioneer stories, it is hard to overstate the power, challenge, and difficulty of this unique collaboration that expresses these exquisitely crafted compositions by Reen...
Sep 22, 2021•16 min
RIOPY has fused minimalism, pop, jazz, and cinematic idioms into a distinctive crossover piano style. A self-taught composer who studied at Oxford University, RIOPY has built a successful career both as a performer and as a composer for television and film, where his evocative solo piano pieces provide the backdrop to popular movie and tv trailers. RIOPY's new Warner Classics recording; 'Bliss' is a collection of 11 titles, each a jewel of pure emotion. RIOPY's inspiration for this album has bee...
Aug 10, 2021•32 min
"My good friend Manny Ax would always say to me that it doesn't matter what you did yesterday; if you're here today, that's what counts." - Yo-Yo Ma to The New York Times Magazine On Friday, June 4, 2021 Yo-Yo Ma and long-time friend and musical partner Emanuel Ax released Hope Amid Tears, a new recording of Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano, on Sony Classical. Hope Amid Tears presents Beethoven's five sonatas for cello and piano in the order in which they were composed, tracing an ...
Aug 02, 2021•31 min
Gramophone Magazine noted that GRAMMY-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta conducts performances that are assured, spontaneous and superbly played. An award winning musician and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and National Council on the Arts, Ms. Faletta has introduced over 500 works by American composers, including over 100 world premieres, and her discography tops 120 titles. Not only does she lead the Buffalo Philharmonic, but is also Music Director Laureate of the Virginia ...
Jun 09, 2021•36 min
Crossover Media's Max Horowitz discusses the powerhouse musical partnership and launch of three-album Deutsche Grammophon Rachmaninoff project with Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Recordings of his symphonic works will be released on CD and digitally, including Dolby Atmos version. Listen to the podcast. First release spans more than forty years of creative development with riveting coupling of composer's First Symphony and Symphonic Dances "I've loved and admired Rachmaninoff's writing since the early ...
May 19, 2021•26 min
Listen to the Daniel Hope 'tribute podcast' to Alfred Schnittke. It's the violinist's encounter with one of the twentieth century's most original and fascinating composers. This podcast was hosted and produced by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. "The real legacy of Schnittke's music is its multidimensional exploration of what musical truth in the twentieth century might be, from chaotic polystylism to heartfelt spirituality." - The Guardian Schnittke – Works for Violin and Piano, released in Febr...
Apr 21, 2021•26 min
Ludvig Forssell is the featured guest on our Keeping Score podcast, produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. The Death Stranding composer reveals his experience working alongside Hideo Kojima and crafting the gritty score by utilizing household appliances and synths that help create the natural, eerie sound. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST After the collapse of civilization, Sam Bridges must journey across a ravaged landscape crawling with otherworldly threats to save mankind from the brink ...
Sep 03, 2020•13 min
Colin Stetson is the featured guest on Sony Soundtracks Keeping Score podcast, produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. The Color Out of Space composer breaks down his process of layering different sounds in order to find the sonic representation of a color that is between magenta and hot pink. Color Out of Space is based on the short story by H.P. Lovecraft. After a meteorite lands in the front yard of their farmstead, Nathan Gardner (Nicolas Cage) and his family find themselves b...
Aug 13, 2020•23 min
Mark Korven is the featured guest on our Keeping Score podcast, produced and hosted by Crossover Media's Max Horowitz. Korven breaks down the creation of the hypnotic score for The Lighthouse and his experience working alongside Robert Eggers. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes The Lighthouse, a hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Star...
Jul 18, 2020•12 min
INTERPLAY, Conversations in Music, with Michael Shapiro - Leonard Slatkin by Crossover Media
Jul 13, 2020•35 min
Guitarist John Scofield celebrates the music of his friend and mentor Steve Swallow in an outgoing and spirited recording, made in an afternoon in New York City in March 2019 - "old school" style as Scofield says, acknowledging that more than forty years of preparation led up to it. John was a 20-year-old student at Berklee when he first met and played with bassist Swallow, and they have continued ever since, in many different contexts. Listen to the podcast "I love these songs", says Scofield o...
Jun 26, 2020•11 min
Wolfgang Muthspiel, whom The New Yorker has called "a shining light" among today's jazz guitarists, returns to the trio format with Angular Blues, his fourth ECM album as a leader, following two acclaimed quintet releases and his trio debut. Like Driftwood – the 2014 trio disc that JazzTimes dubbed "cinematic" and "haunting" – Angular Blues finds the Austrian guitarist paired with long-time collaborator Brian Blade on drums; but instead of Larry Grenadier on bass, this time it's Scott Colley, wh...
Mar 31, 2020•44 min
Lyrics in medieval Hebrew, Arabic and Spanish from Andalusia, 900-1400 C.E. The Golden Age of Spain that created the tradition of Western song, from Schubert and Verdi to Hank Williams and the Beatles Zajal, renowned Downtown composer and instrumentalist Dave Soldier explores the beginning of popular song and locates it 1000 years ago at the intersection of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian cultures in southern Spain. Zajal, along with muwashaha, were the lyrics of medieval Andalusia. While many are...
Mar 27, 2020•8 min
Milan Records recent release of THE NEW POPE (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK FROM THE SKY – HBO – CANAL+ SERIES produced by FREMANTLE'S THE APARTMENT and WILDSIDE, co-produced with HAUT ET COURT TV and THE MEDIAPRO STUDIO), features music by LELE MARCHITELLI. The album score music written by Marchitelli for Paolo Sorrentino's nine-episode original series starring Jude Law and John Malkovich, is complimented by a collection of provokotive songs including the show's theme song from Sofi Tukker and Charlie Ba...
Mar 18, 2020•30 min
Laura Karpman (Underground, Paris Can Wait, Step, Black Nativity) has scored the Discovery docu-series Why We Hate. The show is directed by Geeta Gandbhir & Sam Pollard and investigates the human capacity for hatred and how we can overcome it. The 6-parter traces the evolutionary basis of hate and uses stories from past and present to reveal the nature of the primal and universal emotion. Steven Spielberg, Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and Frank Ma...
Jan 21, 2020•15 min
Welcome to the 'Little Women' podcast featurIng Academy Award®, Golden Globe® and GRAMMY® Award-winning composer; Alexandre Desplat. Sony Music's release of LITTLE WOMEN (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) was recorded in New York City under the leadership of Desplat, who conducted a chamber orchestra to perform his original compositions. The score serves as a sonic companion to the film's coming-of-age narrative, directed by Greta Gerwig, and which opened in theatres on Christmas Day, Wednesda...
Jan 02, 2020•17 min
A bold and powerful nation with imperial ambitions must confront the fact that absolute power may not always equate to certain victory. It must come to terms with the possibility that in this world, other forms of strength and resilience exist. Sublime and transcendental forces, unseen by the naked eye, but infinitely more effective at motivating hearts and minds than brutish strength and bombast. The POINT LESS podcast is a series that boldly expresses views on social injustice. It is an activi...
Dec 03, 2019•7 min
Crossover Media has created a podcast with Third Coast Percussion's David Skidmore in conjunction with the quartet's Cedille Records release "Fields," which features music composed by Devonté Hynes (aka Blood Orange. Podcast includes music from the following tracks - Reach, Coil , Wane, Curl, Hush, Gather, Cradle, Press, Fields, Perfectly Voiceless, There Was Nothing. Third Coast Percussion, though longtime fans of Dev's work as Blood Orange, first came to know him personally through the choreog...
Nov 25, 2019•22 min
After a tragic loss, a parent is inundated with words of condolences and must ponder the real value and meaning of these words. Are they meant in all sincerity or are they just platitudes? Are these words spoken merely to salve the conscience of the well-wisher. In situations where the tragedy is avoidable, Can the energy expended in composing theses elaborately worded but useless phrases be put into preventing the sad event in the first place. Do words have any meaning if they are un-yoked from...
Nov 18, 2019•8 min
Making their first appearance on BIS, Margaret Batjer and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra cross great distances in both time and space in this program of concertante violin works. In this podcast we speak with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra concertmaster; Margaret Batjer about the album. Here are some notes about the pieces on the recording. The disc opens with a Violin Concerto by the American composer Pierre Jalbert (b. 1967), whose music has been described as ‘rich in instrumental colour and...
Nov 17, 2019•23 min
'And Yet' is a song that begs the question: If we are fundamentally all the same, why is it so easy to dehumanize marginalized people? It takes an askance look at all the counter-intuitive scenarios that a member of such a group may find themselves in. It explores how such scenarios can rapidly descend into unexpected and sometimes dire consequences. Anything from clothing to speech, standard of education or levels of occupational achievements can affect the tenor and trajectory of the most ordi...
Oct 30, 2019•8 min
The POINT LESS podcast with Ola Onabule: POINT LESS 'Point Less' is the title track of the album and for good reason. It is on the face of it, an exploration of the pointlessness of violence, but it aims to delve a little deeper and asks why in the modern era there seems to be a tendency to point the finger of blame at the victims of violence. The song addresses how peoples who are afflicted by subjugation to a violent culture, ironically have a tendency to enact greater violence on one another ...
Oct 22, 2019•7 min
This song is written from the point of view of a man who has just extinguished life of another. He has the authority to do so as a licensed officer of the law, nonetheless the extent of his powers do not sit easy with him. He asks philosophical questions of the society that gives him the power of life and death over his fellow human beings and he ponders the historical context that allows him to wield said authority. He comes to the conclusion that he is fulfilling a pre-ordained role determined...
Oct 15, 2019•5 min
The Novel Voices Refugee Aid Project, created and directed by the Carr-Petrova Duo, is designed to give voice and visibility, through music and film, to the lives and struggles of both local and international refugee communities, and to encourage audiences and artists alike to become connected and involved. The #50Days4Refugees podcast series walks through the Duo's past year of travels with the Novel Voices Refugee Aid Project. The 10 episodes cover 50 days for listeners to meet and engage with...
Oct 14, 2019•17 min
The Novel Voices Refugee Aid Project, created and directed by the Carr-Petrova Duo, is designed to give voice and visibility, through music and film, to the lives and struggles of both local and international refugee communities, and to encourage audiences and artists alike to become connected and involved. The #50Days4Refugees podcast series walks through the Duo’s past year of travels with the Novel Voices Refugee Aid Project. The 10 episodes will cover 50 days for listeners to meet and engage...
Oct 07, 2019•19 min
The Novel Voices Refugee Aid Project, created and directed by the Carr-Petrova Duo, is designed to give voice and visibility, through music and film, to the lives and struggles of both local and international refugee communities, and to encourage audiences and artists alike to become connected and involved. The #50Days4Refugees podcast series walks through the Duo’s past year of travels with the Novel Voices Refugee Aid Project. The 10 episodes will cover 50 days for listeners to meet and engage...
Oct 06, 2019•19 min
The POINT LESS podcast with Ola Onabule presents: 'Throwaway Notion', the second track from POINT LESS, the new album by Ola Onabule. Onabule wrote ‘Throwaway Notion’ during that period a couple of years ago in which there was an overwhelming amount of discussion about immigration. With alarming speed, expressions of xenophobia that had been left fallow for some time reseeded themselves and were shoe-horned into the arena of acceptability. The song talks about the disconcerting speed with which ...
Oct 06, 2019•5 min
A follow up to; 'It’s The Peace That Deafens' Ola Onabulé's new album, Point Less boldly expresses views on social injustice. Violence, immigration, xenophobia, betrayal, and dignity are themes considered on Point Less, rendered with a powerful and knowing generosity of spirit. ‘I Knew Your Father’ is a song that describes a foreign, long distance observers’s reaction to the events that ‘Ballad Of The Star-Crossed’ attempts to document as they watch them unfold in the media. The observer tries, ...
Sep 20, 2019•4 min
