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Cole Porter in Hollywood
6th Oct 2014
Katherine listens to the John Wilson Orchestra's sparkling new collection of Cole Porter songs for the big screen.
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Sandrine Piau - Desperate Heroines
1st Oct 2014
Katherine talks to the French soprano about her new disc of Mozart arias, out yesterday on Naive.
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Jean Philippe Rameau
26th Sep 2014
Katherine surveys new and forthcoming releases marking the 250th anniversary of the French composer's death.
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Franco Fagioli on Porpora
20th Sep 2014
Katherine talks to the virtuoso Argentine countertenor about his remarkable voice and his new album of arias by the great Neapolitan singing-teacher and composer Nicola Porpora.
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Kasper Holten on Don Giovanni
18th Sep 2014
Katherine talks to the director of the Royal Opera House about his recent production of Mozart's darkest opera, out now on DVD and Blu-ray and due for revival in the spring.
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Mariusz Kwiecien (Don Giovanni), Alex Esposito (Leporello), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Commendatore), Véronique Gens (Donna Elvira), Antonio Poli (Don Ottavio), Malin Byström (Donna Anna), Elizabeth Watts (Zerlina) & Dawid Kimberg (Masetto) Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Nicola Luisotti (conductor) & Kasper Holten (direcctor)
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Jonas Kaufmann sings popular German music from the 1920s and 30s
15th Sep 2014
Katherine listens to German tenor Jonas Kaufmann's latest release, an enchanting collection of German operetta and light music numbers.
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Roderick Williams warms up for The Last Night of the Proms
11th Sep 2014
The baritone (and regular Presto customer!) talks to Katherine about the festival ahead of Saturday's performance.
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Magda Olivero (1910-2014)
9th Sep 2014
Katherine pays tribute to the great verismo soprano, who has died aged 104.
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Alison Balsom performs trumpet music inspired by Paris
8th Sep 2014
Katherine listens to trumpeter Alison Balsom's new disc of works and arrangements with a jazzy, Parisian flavour.
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Pumeza Matshikiza - Voice of Hope
4th Sep 2014
Katherine talks to the soprano about her new disc of opera arias and songs from her native South Africa.
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Cheryl Frances-Hoad
30th Aug 2014
Katherine talks to the up-and-coming British composer about two of the works on her new disc: a one-woman setting of Beowulf, and a response to Schumann's Frauenliebe und -leben.
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Simon Keenlyside sings show-tunes
28th Aug 2014
The great British baritone takes a break from Rigolettos and Traviatas to try his hand at Tevye, Curly, Billy Bigelow and Fagin…
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Joyce DiDonato sings bel canto arias
25th Aug 2014
Katherine listens to Joyce DiDonato's Stella di Napoli, which explores the Neapolitan school of bel canto opera arias.
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Handel Operas
22nd Aug 2014
Katherine focuses on the hugely prolific composer's stage-works in this week's Favourites.
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Giulio Cesare - DVD Choice
Sarah Connolly (Cesare), Danielle de Niese (Cleopatra), Angelika Kirchschlager (Sesto), Christophe Dumaux (Tolomeo), Patricia Bardon (Cornelia), Christopher Maltman (Achilla) The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, William Christie (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director)
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Licia Albanese (1909-2014)
17th Aug 2014
The Italian-American soprano, widely regarded as the finest Madam Butterfly of the twentieth century, has died aged over 100.
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Licia Albanese (Butterfly), Rosalind Elias (Suzuki), Madelaine Chambers (Kate Pinkerton), Daniele Barioni (Pinkerton), John Brownlee (Sharpless), Alessio de Paolis (Goro), George Cehanovsky (Yamadori) & Osie Hawkins (Bonzo) Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Dimitri Mitropoulos
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Benjamin Grosvenor - a postscript
13th Aug 2014
Following on from Monday's newsletter, I caught up with Benjamin over email to find out more about his new disc Dances - and whether or not he has two left feet…
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Benjamin Grosvenor - Dances
11th Aug 2014
Young British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor sets Katherine's toes tapping with his new disc, Dances.
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Cecilia Bartoli goes Russian
5th Aug 2014
New album will explore music written for three tsarinas in eighteenth-century St Petersburg.
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Russian Orchestral Music from the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic
4th Aug 2014
Katherine enjoys an unusual take on Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade from Sascha Goetzel and the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic.
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Music to commemorate the First World War
28th Jul 2014
Katherine listens to Anna Prohaska's Behind the Lines, a collection of songs spanning a wide historical period, but focusing primarily on the years of the First World War.
