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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.

Jakub Hrusa, recently appointed Music Director of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. talks with Laurence Lewis about his future plans, memories of past conductors and Czech music.  Playing Time: 25.43 mins.

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.

A special Digital edition with each title available from all the usual online musicstores.  There's two extensive minimalist piano works by Lola Perrin, voice projections by Mirka Novak through her Hevhetia release, Malbum, and Blues Beats with Silvia Josifoska from her Hev-Het Tune album, Closer.  Laurence Lewis controls the digits.  Playing Time: 9.58mins.

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.

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.

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.

October and new releases by Pavlk Records and period instrument band, Il Cuore Barocco restoring French Baroque master Joseph Bodin De Boismortier.  Hevhetia finds soprano Maria Taytakova's Impressions selects songs by Duparc, Faure, Debussy, Berg and Slovakian composers - Jan Zimmer, Ladislav Holoubek and Dezider Kardos.  MSR Classics feature Grieg's Three Violin Sonatas reimagined for Flute and played by Kaleb Chesnic.  A collection of music that crosses many paths, hosted by Laurence Lewis.  Playing Time: 12.49 mins.

In this edition, live from the Southbank Centre in London,  Laurence Lewis introduces a selection of instrumental releases by American label MSR Classics featuring the cello, viola and piano duo.  Music by Gaspar Cassado, Marcelle Soulage and Ravel.  Playing Time: 9.45 mins.

In our August Classic Music Podcast Laurence Lewis invites you to discover the quirky Piano Sonatas by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach played by David Murray, on MSR Classics, the Missa in A by Bohemian Baroque Master -  Antonin Jan Nepomuk Brossman, released by Czech label Arta  and new orchestral music by Barbara Harbach played by the London Philhamonic Orhestra, on MSR Classics.  Playing Time: 9.32 mins.

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.  

Solo instrumental releases featuring the violin of Marie Cantagrill, the cornetto of Richard Seda and the piano of Martha Marchena.  She plays pieces by Heitor Villa-Lobos, there's music from the 16th and 17th centuries for Richard Seda to explore and Marie Cantagrill is moving between Ombre and Lumiere on her new album.  In Licentia Poetica, Elma Kais, with the latest in electronics and vocal sounds, attempts  to see if Ovid's thoughts of 2,000 years ago can be recreated.  Laurence Lewis is your guide.  Playing Time: 10.43 mins.

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.

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.

Brahms Op. 120 for Viola and Violin, a surprise Hungarian March, a Swan and a Slovakian Concertino that's a musical bargain?  Hosted by Laurence Lewis.  Playing Time: 12.29mins.

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.

Laurence Lewis introduces lots of songs in this edition.  Juan Carlos Mendoza sings Mexican Song cycles after 1920 on MSR Classics.  Ida Zalewska sings nine classics from The Great American Song Book on Hevhetia.  They bookend music remembering famous women through history by MSR Classics star composer, Barbara Harbach.  Playing Time: 9.36 mins.

Laurence Lewis hosts our February edition featuring four new releases by Slovakian label Hevhetia.  Playing Time: 10.18 mins.

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.