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Rory McCleery on Pater Peccavi
15th Nov 2018
The Marian Consort's conductor talks to David about his new recording exploring a fascinating and unique corner of Iberia's musical history.
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Dame Sarah Connolly on A Walk with Ivor Gurney
8th Nov 2018
The great English mezzo talks to David about her new album exploring the music and poetry of the wartime composer Ivor Gurney, with Tenebrae and the Aurora Orchestra.
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Eric Lu on The Leeds International Piano Competition
22nd Oct 2018
The 20-year-old Chinese-American pianist talks to David about his victory last month and his plans for the immediate future.
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The Calidore Quartet on 'Resilience'
11th Oct 2018
The members of the young American string quartet talk to David about their début recording, which features four quartets from composers experiencing a variety of personal and political traumas.
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Masaaki Suzuki completes his Bach cantata cycle
28th Sep 2018
Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium bring their mighty Bach cycle to a close with a pairing of two 'Cantatas of Contentment'.
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Sakari Oramo on Langgaard
17th Sep 2018
The conductor of the Wiener Philharmoniker talks to David about his new album of works by the forgotten Danish Romantic composer Rued Langgaard.
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Roxanna Panufnik on 'Celestial Bird'
3rd Sep 2018
David talks to composer Roxanna Panufnik about her forthcoming collection of eclectic vocal works performed by Ex Cathedra and Milapfest under Jeffrey Skidmore.
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Scott Metcalfe on The Peterhouse Part-Books
20th Aug 2018
David talks to the founder and artistic director of Renaissance vocal ensemble Blue Heron about the culmination of his project to record lost pre-Reformation choral works from the Peterhouse Partbooks.
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Christian Lindberg on Stenhammar
14th Aug 2018
The Swedish conductor talks to David about his new recording of Stenhammar's mighty Second Symphony with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.
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Costantino Mastroprimiano on Hummel
7th Aug 2018
The pianist talks to David about his recently-completed set of sonatas by the great Central European composer.
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Vivaldi Double Concertos from Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima
20th Jul 2018
Adrian Chandler and his acclaimed team of baroque instrumentalists present a sparkling selection of Vivaldi's unique double concerti.
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Mark Dourish on De Profundis
19th Jul 2018
The founder and director of Cambridge-based early music specialists De Profundis talks about the group's second album of Renaissance treasures for lower voices, released at the end of June on Hyperion.
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Robert Hollingworth on Vivanco's Missa Assumpsit Jesus
11th Jul 2018
Conductor and musicologist Robert Hollingworth talks polyphony, period performance and pitch (and his new recording of Spanish Renaissance music with male-voice ensemble De Profundis).
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Duncan Ferguson on William Mundy
3rd Jul 2018
Conductor Duncan Ferguson talks to David about his latest release on Delphian with the choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, which focuses on the majestic choral works of William Mundy.
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Maria Marchant on Granville Bantock
25th Jun 2018
Pianist Maria Marchant talks to David about her new album Bantock Rediscovered, featuring première recordings of nine works by Granville Bantock.
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Buxtehude's Abendmusiken from Vox Luminis
22nd Jun 2018
Two first-rate early music ensembles join forces to recreate the atmosphere of Buxtehude's legendary secular-sacred concert series in Lübeck.
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Francesco Piemontesi on Liszt
20th Jun 2018
The pianist talks to David about the first instalment of Années de pélerinage, which was our Recording of the Week a fortnight ago.
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Owain Park on English Motets
11th Jun 2018
Conductor Owain Park talks to David about his recent album of English Tudor gems with the Gesualdo Six.
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Alec Frank-Gemmill on Before Mozart
7th Jun 2018
Horn player Alec Frank-Gemmill talks to David about his recent album exploring some gems from the early horn repertoire.
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Paweł Łukaszewski on Daylight Declines
28th May 2018
The eminent Polish composer talks to David about Tenebrae's forthcoming album featuring a selection of his sacred choral compositions.
