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Liszt, Reubke and Mendelssohn from Stephen Cleobury
5th May 2015
Stephen Cleobury, the long-serving Director of Music at King's College Cambridge, talks to David about his latest album - featuring three large-scale organ works.
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Harping on with Xavier de Maistre
29th Apr 2015
David talks to the harpist about his new disc, Moldau, featuring Slavic-flavoured arrangements and compositions for the harp.
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Brahms Inspired - Orli Shaham
15th Apr 2015
Brahms's Op. 119 provides creative impetus for three newly commissioned works in this new project from the American pianist.
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Passion settings by James MacMillan and JS Bach
6th Apr 2015
David listens to two very different musical responses to the Passion story – James MacMillan's new St Luke Passion and the Academy of Ancient Music's performance of Bach's time-honoured St Matthew.
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Edvard Grieg
3rd Apr 2015
David picks some of the best recordings of the works of the Norwegian Romantic nationalist, Edvard Grieg.
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Shostakovich from the Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin
30th Mar 2015
David listens to the Takács Quartet's stirring account of Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 2, joined by Marc-André Hamelin for his Piano Quintet.
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The Miraculous Mandolin
26th Mar 2015
David talks to Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital about his new solo album, Vivaldi.
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Isabelle Faust plays Schumann's Violin Concerto
23rd Mar 2015
David listens to Isabelle Faust's account of Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor, with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Pablo Heras-Casado.
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Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
20th Mar 2015
Kent Nagano and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal return to Decca with a rarely-heard French collaboration.
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César Franck
13th Mar 2015
David picks out some of the finest recordings of Belgian organist-composer César Franck.
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Violin music by Bach and Vivaldi from Gil Shaham and Rachel Podger
9th Mar 2015
David listens to two new albums of violin music - Vivaldi concertos from Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque, and Bach solo sonatas and partitas from Gil Shaham.
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Russian Cello and Piano Concertos from Steven Isserlis and Kirill Gerstein
2nd Mar 2015
David listens to a pair of new releases that throw light on early versions of concertos by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev.
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JS Bach Choral & Vocal Works
20th Feb 2015
This week it's David's turn to attempt the impossible - whittling down the huge and distinguished choral discography of JS Bach and picking out the very best.
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John McCabe (1939-2015)
17th Feb 2015
David remembers the English composer-pianist, who has died aged 75.
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A road-trip with the Aurora Orchestra
13th Feb 2015
David talks to the Orchestra's conductor Nicholas Collon about their innovative new American-inspired album.
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Flight of Angels
4th Feb 2015
David talks to Harry Christophers about his new disc of polyphonic gems from the Spanish Renaissance with The Sixteen.
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Sergei Rachmaninov
30th Jan 2015
David picks out some recordings of the works of Rachmaninov, perhaps the greatest composer for the piano of the Twentieth Century.
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Solo Bach from Gil Shaham
22nd Jan 2015
The maverick violinist turns to the solo sonatas and partitas for his next project on Canary Classics.
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A Schumann rarity from Rattle and the LSO
14th Jan 2015
Simon Rattle gives an outing to a forgotten Schumann delight, Das Paradies und die Peri.
