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Desmond & Mulligan - Two of a Mind
28th Mar 2019
Matt winds down to urbane warriors Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan's Two of a Mind.
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Tamara Stefanovich on Influences
28th Mar 2019
The pianist talks to Katherine about her debut recording on Pentatone, featuring music by JS Bach, Bartók, Ives and Messiaen.
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Introducing Andrei Ioniță
27th Mar 2019
The Romanian cellist talks to Katherine about his debut solo album Oblique Strategies, which includes the world premiere recording of Brett Dean's Brian Eno-inspired work of the same name as well as music by JS Bach, Kodály and Svante Henryson.
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BBC Music Magazine - April 2019 Choices
26th Mar 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, including albums from Peter Donohoe, Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau and Helmut Deutsch, and Gianandrea Noseda and the London Symphony Orchestra.
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Clara Schumann 200th Birthday Celebrations
26th Mar 2019
This year we celebrate the 200th Birthday of pianist and composer Clara Schumann. Find out about the new publications that have been released to celebrate this anniversary, including a flower diary by Clara Schumann containing facsimile prints of pressed flowers, and a book of songs.
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Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider on Mozart
25th Mar 2019
The violinist talks to Katherine about his recent recording of the Mozart concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra, and his role as president of the Carl Nielsen International Competition, which is currently in full swing in Denmark.
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Vijay Iyer & Craig Taborn
22nd Mar 2019
Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn take the road less travelled on this fascinating document of a live concert from Budapest on ECM.
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The Transitory Poems
Vijay Iyer (piano), Craig Taborn (piano)
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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 22nd March 2019
22nd Mar 2019
Beach Boys-go-bebop with Atomic's latest offering, boogaloo odysseys from Oz Noy, David Laborier's latest cross-genre experiments and the Benny Lackner Trio continue to tastefully push the envelope.
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Donizetti's L'Ange de Nisida
22nd Mar 2019
Sir Mark Elder conducts the world premiere of Donizetti’s opera semiseria from 1839, composed for a theatre which closed down before the opening night, but subsequently heavily revised as La favorite.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd March 2019
22nd Mar 2019
New albums from Iestyn Davies and Fretwork, Quatuor Diotima and the Carducci Quartet, plus the world premiere of Moniuszko’s Halka in its 1857 Italian version from Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante.
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Sir Mark Elder on Donizetti's L’Ange de Nisida
21st Mar 2019
The conductor talks to Katherine about the world premiere recording of Donizetti’s 1839 opera, released tomorrow on Opera Rara with Joyce El-Khoury in the title-role.
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Boxed Set Selections - March 2019
20th Mar 2019
A centenary edition from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Robert Casadesus’s collected Columbia recordings, Tchaikovsky’s complete solo piano works from Valentina Lisitsa, and a comprehensive recorder anthology from Brilliant Classics.
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Out to Lunch
20th Mar 2019
Matt revisits one of the true landmarks of modern jazz, Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch.
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Eric Dolphy
Eric Dolphy
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Alexander Ullman on Russian ballet transcriptions
19th Mar 2019
The winner of the 2017 International Franz Liszt Piano Competition talks to Katherine about his debut solo album of music by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Prokofiev, released last Friday on Rubicon.
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite
Alexander Ullman (piano)
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Madeleine Mitchell on Grace Williams
18th Mar 2019
Violinist Madeleine Mitchell talks to David about her new album showcasing the rarely-heard works of the Welsh composer Grace Williams.
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New Music Book Publications - 18th March 2019
18th Mar 2019
Biographies of composers and performers as diverse as Jonas Kaufmann, Elton John, Rudolf Nureyev, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Arnold Schoenberg, an introduction to the world of opera, and a discussion of Liszt's piano transcriptions of orchestral music.
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The Comet Is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
15th Mar 2019
Interstellar Messages (via London) from this brilliant trio.
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Isabelle Faust plays Bach Concertos
15th Mar 2019
The German violinist joins forces with oboist Xenia Löffler and Bernhard Forck's Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin for a tour of Bach's violin concertos, interspersed with alternate versions of sinfonias and sonatas that have been reconstructed for the first time.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th March 2019
15th Mar 2019
New albums from Khatia Buniatishvili, Fazil Say and the Artemis Quartet, the final release in Iván Fischer’s Mahler series with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and Elgar, Moeran and Vaughan Williams from the Barbirolli Society archives.
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Richard Watkins on The Romantic Horn
14th Mar 2019
The British horn-player talks to David about his new album of music by Beethoven, Strauss, Schumann, Scriabin and more with the pianist Julius Drake, out now on Signum Classics.
