Latest News: Classical, Ian Page (conductor)
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Interview,
Ian Page on Arne's Artaxerxes 26th May 2021
The British conductor talks to Katherine about his 2010 recording of Thomas Arne's English-language opera seria about forbidden love and political skulduggery in Ancient Persia, re-released earlier this month on Signum.
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Interview,
Ian Page on Mozart in London 23rd April 2018
The conductor talks to Katherine about his new recording exploring the music which the young composer is likely to have encountered on his visit to the city in the mid-1760s.
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Recording of the Week,
Arne: Artaxerxes 24th January 2011
Ian Page and the Classical Opera Company resurrect the British composer’s ornate depiction of skulduggery in Ancient Persia, premiered in London in 1762, with Christopher Ainslie in the title-role and Elizabeth Watts as his firebrand sister.
