Latest News: Classical, Interview
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Interview,
Ralph Couzens on Chandos 3rd October 2019
To mark their fortieth anniversary, the British independent record-label's Managing Director talks to Katherine about their evolution and plans for the future...
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Interview,
Ivana Gavrić on Origins 30th September 2019
The Bosnian-born pianist talks Haydn, Frances-Hoad and Sarajevan folklore – just some of the ingredients going into the melting-pot of her latest album.
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Interview,
Ed Lyon on his 17th-Century Playlist 26th September 2019
The English tenor talks to Katherine about his debut solo album of songs by Landi, Dowland, Lambert, Cavalli and more with Theatre of the Ayre, released tomorrow on Delphian.
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Interview,
Daniel Behle on Zero to Hero 24th September 2019
The German tenor talks to Katherine about his new album of Mozart arias (released last Friday on Sony), and his own ongoing transition into more heroic repertoire.
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Interview,
Ermonela Jaho on Le Willis 19th September 2019
The Albanian soprano talks to Katherine about singing the role of Anna on Sir Mark Elder's recording of Puccini's first opera in its original one-act incarnation, released tomorrow on Opera Rara.
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Interview,
The Queen's Six on The Last Rose of Summer 17th September 2019
Bass Simon Whiteley of The Queen's Six talks to David about their new album of British and Irish folksong arrangements.
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Interview,
Wu Wei on Silk Baroque 15th September 2019
The sheng virtuoso discusses his fusion project with Holland Baroque (released earlier this summer on Pentatone), which features Chinese traditional tunes alongside music by Rameau, Telemann and Vivaldi.
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Interview,
Robin Ticciati on Duruflé and Debussy 12th September 2019
The conductor talks to Katherine about his third recording of French repertoire with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, which pairs the Duruflé Requiem with Debussy's Nocturnes.
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Interview,
Miloš Karadaglić on The Sound of Silence 11th September 2019
The guitarist talks to Katherine about his new album, conceived during his recovery from a hand injury which put his career on hold for several years.
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Interview,
Raphaël Pichon on Libertà! 9th September 2019
The French conductor talks to Katherine about recording three 'mosaics' of music which Mozart composed or encountered during the period leading up to his life-changing collaboration with Lorenzo Da Ponte, including extracts from his abandoned operas Lo sposo deluso and L'oca del Cairo, and music by Salieri, Paisiello and Soler.
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Interview,
Andrew Manze on Vaughan Williams 5th September 2019
The conductor talks to David about his recently-concluded series of Vaughan Williams symphonies with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on Onyx, and the postscript to the cycle which will be released in October...
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Interview,
Anne-Sophie Mutter on John Williams 29th August 2019
The violinist talks to James about her new album of music by John Williams, featuring a selection of movie themes specially reworked for violin and orchestra, conducted by the composer himself.
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Interview,
Antoine Tamestit on Bach 27th August 2019
The viola-player talks to David about his recording of the three gamba sonatas on Stradivari’s ‘Gustav Mahler’ viola from 1672 - one of only thirteen extant violas by the legendary Cremonese luthier.
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Interview,
Long Yu on Gateways 22nd August 2019
The conductor talks to David about his new album with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra - marking the orchestra's signing to Deutsche Grammophon with a programme of Russian- and Chinese- related works, including two by Shanghai-born composer Qigang Chen.
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Interview,
Ivan Ilić on Stegmann's transcriptions of Haydn 12th August 2019
The Serbian-American pianist talks to Katherine about discovering and recording solo piano arrangements of Symphonies Nos. 92, 75 and 44 by Carl David Stegmann, a conductor, composer and tenor who sang in the first German-language production of Don Giovanni.
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Interview,
David Owen Norris on Mozart in the Nineteenth-Century Drawing-Room 5th August 2019
The pianist talks to Katherine about his new recording of Hummel, Cramer and Clementi’s arrangements of Mozart symphonies and overtures for ‘Jupiter Ensemble’ (flute, violin, cello and piano), out now on Hyperion.
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Interview,
Mahan Esfahani on Bach's Toccatas 2nd August 2019
The Iranian-American harpsichordist talks to David about his new album, featuring lively accounts of the seven keyboard toccatas by JS Bach.
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Interview,
Elizabeth Kenny on Old and New Music for Theorbo 29th July 2019
The theorbo-player and lutenist talks to David about her solo album Ars longa, released on Linn last month, which includes music by Kapsberger, Piccinini and Robert de Visée as well as new commissions from Benjamin Oliver and Nico Muhly.
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Interview,
Nicola Benedetti on Wynton Marsalis 22nd July 2019
The violinist talks to Katherine about premiering the legendary jazz musician's Violin Concerto (released earlier this month on Decca), which draws on influences as diverse as Robert Johnson, Duke Ellington, Scottish folk music and Stravinsky.
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Interview,
Rosanne Philippens on Insight 18th July 2019
The violinist discusses her recent album of solo works by Biber, Bach, Enescu and Ysaÿe, released on Channel Classics in late April and curated in response to audience feedback from a European recital tour.
