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Dmitri Shostakovich
23rd May 2014
David explores recordings of iconic Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
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Gil Shaham's Music to Drive Away Loiterers
21st May 2014
David asks violinist Gil Shaham about his latest release, the intriguingly-titled "Music to Drive Away Loiterers".
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Chad Hoopes plays Adams and Mendelssohn
15th May 2014
Young American violinist Chad Hoopes talks to David about his latest disc of violin concerti by Mendelssohn and Adams.
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Alessandrini records Monteverdi's Vespers
7th May 2014
Early music expert and conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini is set to turn his hand to a new recording of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 for Naive.
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Antonio Vivaldi
2nd May 2014
David picks out the very best recordings of works by the “Red Priest”, Antonio Vivaldi.
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Monica Piccinini (soprano), Alena Dantcheva (soprano), Massimiliano Pollio, Sara Mingardo (contralto), Luca Dordolo (tenor), Lia Serafini, Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord), Deborah York (soprano), Patrizia Biccire (soprano), Emma Kirkby (soprano) & Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord) Concerto Italiano, Northern Chamber Orchestra & Collegium Musicum 90, Collegium Musicum 90
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Shostakovich Cello Concertos from Truls Mørk
28th Apr 2014
David listens to gripping accounts of Shostakovich’s two Cello Concertos from Truls Mørk, with Vasily Petrenko at the podium.
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Music for Holy Week
16th Apr 2014
A brief round-up of recent releases focusing on Passiontide and Easter.
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Henry Purcell
11th Apr 2014
David explores some of the top performances - old and new - of the wide and varied output of English Baroque master Henry Purcell.
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Sarah Connolly (Dido), Lucas Meachem (Aeneas), Lucy Crowe (Belinda), Sara Fulgoni (Sorceress), Anita Watson (Second Woman), Eri Nakamura (First Witch), Pumeza Matshikiza (Second Witch), Iestyn Davies (Spirit), Ji-Min Park (Sailor) Dancers of The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera Extra Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Christopher Hogwood (conductor) & Wayne McGregor (stage director)
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Iestyn Davies on singing Dowland
28th Mar 2014
British countertenor Iestyn Davies talks to Presto's David Smith about his new Dowland recording, The Art of Melancholy, out on 31st March on Hyperion Records.
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Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 2
24th Mar 2014
David rediscovers Mendelssohn's Lobgesang thanks to Pablo Heras-Casado and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in this week's newsletter.
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The Tallis Scholars sing John Taverner's Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
16th Dec 2013
The British vocal ensemble mark their fortieth anniversary with ‘a full-blooded forty-five-minute epic that Phillips compares favourably to a Britten opera or an Elgar symphony’.
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Steven Isserlis plays Dvořák's Cello Concerto
30th Sep 2013
The British cellist joins Daniel Harding and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra for the evergreen B minor concerto and its lesser-known predecessor from 1865, revised and orchestrated by German composer Günter Raphael.
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Tudor Church Music from Stile Antico
29th Jul 2013
The conductorless British vocal ensemble’s rich lower voices and effortless, ethereal sopranos bring an almost regal broadness to music by Gibbons, Tallis, Byrd, Morley, Taverner and White.
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Bach Cantatas from Sir John Eliot Gardiner
8th Apr 2013
As a coda to his mighty Bach Pilgrimage, Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir present the Ascension Cantatas, which were originally scheduled to be recorded as part of the project but had to be abandoned due to noise issues.
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Gesualdo - Sacred and Secular
4th Mar 2013
James Wood directs Vocalconsort berlin in the second book of Sacrae Cantiones, whilst La Compagnia del Madrigale are on flamboyant form in the Sixth Book of Madrigals – dark, disorientating works which could scarcely be more different from their English counterparts.
