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Simon Mayor on Carolan
22nd Mar 2023
The mandolinist talks about his new album of music by the eighteenth-century Irish harpist Turlough O'Carolan, featuring his own arrangements that meld together Baroque, folk and chamber styles.
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St Patrick's Day - Music from Ireland
17th Mar 2023
A selection of music from Ireland - Baroque odes, piano concertos, chamber music, art songs, opera and more.
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The Calidore String Quartet record late Beethoven
15th Mar 2023
Violinist Ryan Meehan talks about the quartet's new album, which builds on their earlier more exploratory releases with an all-Beethoven programme.
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The Dudok Quartet on Shostakovich and Bacewicz
8th Mar 2023
Cellist David Faber talks about the quartet's recent album of intense chamber music by two composers who grappled with Soviet oppression - Dmitri Shostakovich and Grażyna Bacewicz.
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Reflections: Shostakovich & Bacewicz
Dudok Quartet
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Johannes Moser on being Alone Together
6th Mar 2023
The cellist talks about his new album that blends the artistry of the solo cello with the technology of sequencing and spatial audio - conceived well before the pandemic, but brought into focus by the enforced isolation that characterised 2020 for so many people.
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Stravinsky from Isabelle Faust, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles
3rd Mar 2023
Violinist Isabelle Faust's relationship with the music of Stravinsky continues, with François-Xavier Roth and his period-instruments orchestra Les Siècles joining her in an album built around the chamber-inspired Violin Concerto.
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Mark Bebbington on Vaughan Williams's 'Fantasia on the Old 104th'
27th Feb 2023
The pianist talks about his recent recording of a striking, category-defying work by Vaughan Williams that is very rarely heard - and shares his thoughts on some other rarely-explored sides of Vaughan Williams's music.
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Eric Lu on Schubert
23rd Feb 2023
The pianist talks about his recent album of Schubert sonatas, his empathy for the troubled composer, and his unique relationship with his music.
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Schubert: Piano Sonatas D.784 & D.95
Eric Lu (piano)
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Biber's Rosary Sonatas from Amandine Beyer and Gli Incogniti
17th Feb 2023
Inspired by a dance project for the stage, Beyer and her fellow musicians rediscover the vitality of Biber's cycle of devotional sonatas.
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Rory McCleery on Vicente Lusitano
16th Feb 2023
The Marian Consort's director talks about the ensemble's recent album of choral polyphony by Vicente Lusitano, the earliest-known classical composer of African ancestry.
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Julian Podger on the music of Dufay
9th Feb 2023
The director of Gothic Voices talks about the group's new album of choral works from Florentine collections, including two of Dufay's most famous motets - Nuper rosarum flores and O tres piteulx.
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Early Music Round-Up - February 2023
6th Feb 2023
Majestic works for brass and choir from InAlto and Lambert Colson, innovative Monteverdi madrigals from Concerto Italiano and Rinaldo Alessandrini, rediscovered Rameau from Alexis Kossenko and friends, a bumper crop of anniversary recordings of Byrd and Weelkes, and more.
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Passages: German Ritual Music 1600-1800
Alice Foccroulle, Griet De Geyter, InAlto and Lambert Colson, Alice Foccroulle (soloist), Griet De Geyter (soloist), Geoffroy Buffière, InAlto and Lambert Colson, Geoffroy Buffière (soloist), Alice Foccroulle, InAlto and Lambert Colson, Griet De Geyter, InAlto and Lambert Colson InAlto, Lambert Colson
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Well-tempered Bach on the clavichord from András Schiff
27th Jan 2023
An oft-neglected early keyboard instrument finally gets its moment in the sun in an intimate programme of Bach that plays to its strengths, built around the two-part and three-part inventions.
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J.S. Bach: Clavichord
András Schiff (clavichord)
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Matthew Schellhorn on the piano music of Herbert Howells
26th Jan 2023
The pianist talks about his second volume of piano works by Howells, consisting almost entirely of world premiere recordings.
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Christopher Tin on The Lost Birds
22nd Jan 2023
The composer talks about his new work, calling attention to declining bird biodiversity through settings of Romantic poetry.
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Ian Venables on the first recordings of his Requiem
18th Jan 2023
The composer talks to David about his Requiem, recorded on Somm Records in 2020 by the choir of Gloucester Cathedral, and more recently in its full orchestral version by the choir of Merton College Oxford and the Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia.
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Dussek on Dussek
16th Jan 2023
Pianist Michael Dussek talks about his new album of innovative music by his ancestor Jan Ladislav, and of the influence it had on Chopin.
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Rebecca Saunders on 'Skin'
10th Jan 2023
The British composer talks about her new album, drawing together three of her collaboratively-created contemporary works: Skin, void and Unbreathed.
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Frank Agsteribbe on elaborate Requiem Masses by Philippus van Steelant
3rd Jan 2023
The conductor discusses the splendour of funerary works by Philippus van Steelant, newly recorded by B'Rock Orchestra and cantoLX.
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Antwerp Requiem ca. 1650
cantoLX, B'Rock Orchestra, Frank Agsteribbe
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Parker Ramsay and Nico Muhly on The Street
29th Dec 2022
The harpist and composer talk about a striking new work based on the Stations of the Cross.
