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New Release Round-Up - 26th April 2019
26th Apr 2019
New releases from the Belcea Quartet, Melvyn Tan, Jess Gillam, Julian Prégardien, and the Choir of St John’s College Cambridge.
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Valentina Lisitsa on Tchaikovsky
24th Apr 2019
The Ukrainian pianist talks to David about her monumental latest recording project - the complete solo piano works of Tchaikovsky.
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Heather Harper (1930-2019)
23rd Apr 2019
The Belfast-born soprano, who sang in the premiere of Britten's War Requiem and created the role of Mrs Coyle in his Owen Wingrave, has died aged 88.
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Britten: War Requiem
Heather Harper (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Melos Ensemble, Coventry Festival Choir, Boys of Holy Trinity, Leamington and Holy Trinity, Stratford, Meredith Davies (CBSO), Benjamin Britten (Melos)
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BBC Music Magazine - May 2019 Choices
22nd Apr 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, including albums from Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, Imogen Cooper, Jodie Devos, and Edgar Moreau.
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Schumann from Matthias Goerne and Leif Ove Andsnes
19th Apr 2019
The German bass-baritone brings near-Wagnerian intensity to Schumann's two great cycles of 1840, yet he and Andsnes are at their most spellbinding in the introspective songs.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th April 2019
19th Apr 2019
New releases from Vasily Petrenko, Valery Gergiev, Kristian Bezuidenhout and Pablo Heras-Casado, plus previously-unpublished Schumann and Wolf from Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten.
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Pēteris Vasks
18th Apr 2019
The Latvian composer talks to David about his new album of choral works, featuring two large-scale liturgical compositions and written as a centenary present to his country.
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BBC Proms 2019 - Our Top Related Recordings
17th Apr 2019
Katherine picks out some highlights from this year's season (announced this morning) and recommends related recordings.
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Boxed Set Selections - April 2019
16th Apr 2019
An Offenbach bicentenary edition from Warner Classics, Sir John Eliot Gardiner's period-instrument accounts of Berlioz on Philips, and Carlo Maria Giulini's complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and Decca.
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Carolyn Sampson on Reason in Madness
15th Apr 2019
The soprano talks to Katherine about her Nietzsche-inspired recital of songs depicting vulnerable women by Debussy, Koechlin, Poulenc, Schumann and others, out now on BIS.
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András Schiff plays late Schubert
12th Apr 2019
The Hungarian-born pianist brings introspective poetry to two late sonatas, the Four Impromptus D899 and the Drei Klavierstücke D946, recorded on his Franz Brodmann fortepiano from 1820.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th April 2019
12th Apr 2019
New albums from Evgeny Kissin & the Emerson Quartet, Renaud Capuçon & David Fray, Boris Giltburg, Florilegium, and Les Vents Français.
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Tasmin Little reflects on her career
11th Apr 2019
In the wake of winning Personality of the Year at last night's BBC Music Magazine Awards, the British violinist chats to Katherine about her life in music and her plans for retirement.
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Tasmin Little - a personal retrospective
11th Apr 2019
As the British violinist prepares for retirement from the concert platform, she talks us through some personal highlights from her extensive discography...
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2019 - The Winners!
10th Apr 2019
A live update from tonight's ceremony at Kings Place, including details of the Recording of the Year and Jury Awards...
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Lise Davidsen's Decca debut and other forthcoming highlights
10th Apr 2019
A magnificent debut album of Wagner and Strauss from the Norwegian lyric-dramatic soprano, plus new releases from Michael Fabiano, Steven Osborne, Rachel Podger and Magdalena Kožená.
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Iestyn Davies on Michael Nyman and Henry Purcell
9th Apr 2019
The countertenor talks to David about his new album with Fretwork, playing off the juxtaposition of baroque works by Henry Purcell with works by contemporary composer Michael Nyman.
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Clare Hammond on Mysliveček
7th Apr 2019
The British pianist and Royal Philharmonic Society Award-winner talks to Katherine about reconstructing and recording the piano concertos of the Czech composer with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Nicholas McGegan.
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Jordi Savall directs JS Bach's Markus Passion
5th Apr 2019
David listens to a newly-reconstructed version of JS Bach's lost St Mark Passion, from Jordi Savall and the Capella Reial de Catalunya.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th April 2019
5th Apr 2019
New albums from Christian Thielemann, Carolyn Sampson, Cappella Gabetta and Alban Gerhardt, plus a collection of Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Berlioz recordings.
