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Episode 28: Karel Ančerl Live with Rob Cowan and Matouš Vlčinský
27th Feb 2022
The live recordings by the great Czech conductor Karel Ančerl, and Bohemian musical culture are explored by Rob Cowan and Matouš Vlčinský from Supraphon records.
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Episode 27: A Life in Notes - The Art of Music Biography
13th Feb 2022
This week three eminent music biographers join Paul for a round-table discussion on the art of writing a music biography.
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A Life in Notes - The Art of Music Biography
13th Feb 2022
Three eminent music biographers join Paul for a round-table discussion on the art of writing a music biography.
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Episode 27: A Life in Notes - The Art of Music Biography
13th Feb 2022
This week three eminent music biographers join Paul for a round-table discussion on the art of writing a music biography.
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Episode 26: On the Fiddle with Charlotte Gardner
12th Dec 2021
This week we are joined by writer Charlotte Gardner to discuss changing styles of violin-playing over the past hundred years.
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New Presto CDs from Warner & Erato
29th Nov 2021
Piotr Anderszewski, Maxim Vengerov & Sir Simon Rattle feature in the first batch of Presto CDs from the Warner & Erato catalogue.
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Episode 25: The Story of Presto Music with Chris O'Reilly
14th Nov 2021
To celebrate Presto Music's double anniversary we invited our very own Chris O'Reilly onto the show to talk about how it grew from a small CD shop in Leamington Spa to become one of the global leaders in online music retail.
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Episode 24: On Song with The Hermes Experiment
31st Oct 2021
Paul meets the members of The Hermes Experiment, one of the UK's most innovative contemporary music groups, in the week that their second album is released on Delphian Records.
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Episode 23: Wilhelm Furtwängler with Rob Cowan & David Hurwitz
17th Oct 2021
Rob Cowan and David Hurwitz join Paul to discuss the merits of Warner's recent 55 disc boxset devoted to the recordings of the iconic German conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler.
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Episode 22: Musicological Musings with Daniel Elphick
4th Oct 2021
Musicologists - who are they, what do they want, and who keeps feeding 'em? Paul gets to the nub of all of these questions with the help of Daniel Elphick.
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Episode 21: A Great Dane - Andrew Mellor on Carl Nielsen
12th Sep 2021
Andrew Mellor returns to the show to discuss the music of Carl Nielsen, one of the twentieth century's most fascinating symphonists.
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24 New Decca titles now on Presto CD
8th Sep 2021
The centuries spanning selection includes music by Victoria, Mozart & Shostakovich, and artists including Albrecht Mayer & Vladimir Ashkenazy.
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Episode 20: Fresh Air in the Pipes - Organ Music with Anna Lapwood
29th Aug 2021
This week's guest is one of Britain's most talented young organists, Anna Lapwood, giving us a potted history of the organ's history, and a tour of her eclectic new record, Images.
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New Presto CD titles from the Deutsche Grammophon catalogue
24th Aug 2021
Artists featured in the latest batch of Presto CDs include Herbert von Karajan, Tamás Vásáry, Martha Argerich & Mstislav Rostropovich.
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New Presto CD titles from the Decca catalogue
12th Jul 2021
Artists featured in the latest batch of Presto CDs include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alfred Brendel, and Thomas Trotter.
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Episode 19: Classical Comedy with Rainer Hersch
4th Jul 2021
Comedian Rainer Hersch joins Paul for a potted history of the art of cocking a snook at the strait-laced world of classical music.
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31 New Deutsche Grammophon titles added to Presto CD
8th Jun 2021
Artists featured in the latest batch of Presto CDs include Arthur Fiedler, Mstislav Rostropovich & Ravi Shankar.
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Episode 18: A Tale of Three Conductors with Rob Cowan
25th May 2021
Podcast regular Rob Cowan joins Paul to assess recent archival boxsets devoted to three émigré American conductors: Artur Rodzinski, Rafael Kubelik, and Eugene Ormandy.
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Shelf Discovery: Michala Petri
18th May 2021
In the seventh instalment of our occasional series, Paul reflects on the Danish recorder-player's eclectic discography, from Bach and Handel with Keith Jarrett to commissions from Fabrice Bollon and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen...
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Episode 17 Bonus: Pierrot Lunaire with Patricia Kopatchinskaja
2nd May 2021
For this special bonus episode of the podcast, Patricia Kopatchinskaja tells us about her longstanding relationship with Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire.
