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Naxos Classical Spotlight explores the world of classical music. Along the way host Raymond Bisha shares the stories about the music, and the musicians who make it.  Raymond has been involved in classical music as a professional French Horn player, broadcaster, opera tour manager, concert organizer and since 2005 as a podcaster for Naxos.

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  2. “The Earth is going to be fine without us.” Jake Runestad unpacks his Earth Symphony.

Mar 21, 2025

Born in 1986, Jake Runestad is a versatile and prolific young composer whose visceral music and charismatic personality have fostered a busy schedule of national and international commissions, residencies, workshops, and speaking engagements, enabling him to be one of the youngest full-time composers in the world. In this podcast he discusses with Raymond Bisha the profound message behind his Earth Symphony, as Mother Earth recounts mankind's evolution, to lust for power and progress, to the impact this has had on the planet, and how she will move on after all that we have managed to inflict on her.