The Crossover Media Podcast

With songs written in his mother tongue – Tomson Highway’s latest recording is a country music milestone with songs that swing, joke, drawl, and wail – all in Cree. This is what makes Cree Country unique. Sung by the incomparable Patricia Cano, this stylish collection of 12 new country songs from one of Canada’s most prolific artistic innovators - Tomson Highway features a spectacular band of Cana...

In 2021, the innovative, Houston Texas based Apollo Chamber Players released their fifth studio album - With Malice Toward None, through Azica Records. Taking its title from Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address, the recording tackles politics, identity, and what it means to be a citizen of a nation balanced between an idealized past and a just and multicultural future. Prominently featured o...

On Friday, August 20, 2021, Apollo Chamber Players released their fifth studio album, With Malice Toward None, on Azica Records. The album is a breathtaking collection of globally-inspired compositions and collaborations, with each composer sharing their own personal interpretations of folk music. Works include a title track by Vietnam War-veteran J. Kimo Williams with a performance by electric vi...

‘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 d...

Penderecki in Memoriam Podcast unveils a multifaceted portrait of Krzysztof Penderecki, with commentary from musicians, colleagues, radio programmers, and writers who lend insight and memories of Poland's greatest modern composer. This podcast is part of Penderecki in Memoriam Worldwide project, honoring the life and legacy of the great composer. Thank you to project partners DUX, NAXOS, Ludwig va...

‘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 d...

‘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 d...

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 di...

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...

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...

‘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 d...

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...

"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 present...

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. N...

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...

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...

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 j...

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...

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 hallucina...

INTERPLAY, Conversations in Music, with Michael Shapiro - Leonard Slatkin by Crossover Media

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...

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 collab...

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 i...

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...

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 S...