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Hannah Ely on The Excellence of Women
27th Oct 2024
The manager of Fieri Consort talks about the group's new album of madrigals by Maddalena Casulana and Barbara Strozzi.
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Venezuela! from Domingo Hindoyan and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
25th Oct 2024
The Caracas-born conductor brings vivid colour, clarity and energy to a programme of orchestral music by his compatriots, including works by Evencio Castellanos, Juan Bautista Plaza and Inocente Carreño.
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New Release Round-Up - 25th October 2024
25th Oct 2024
Kathryn Stott's final recording (with her friend and long-term colleague Yo-Yo Ma), Sibelius from James Ehnes and Edward Gardner in Bergen, Schubert from the late Maurizio Pollini and his son Daniele, and Classical opera arias from Brazilian male soprano Bruno de Sá.
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Adrian Sutton on his Violin Concerto
24th Oct 2024
The British composer discusses the inspirations behind his new concerto for Fenella Humphreys, his work for the theatre (including the score for the play War Horse), and how receiving a terminal diagnosis led him to channel his creative energies in new directions.
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Boxed Set Selections - October 2024
23rd Oct 2024
Michael Tilson Thomas's complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon and Argo, a 150th anniversary anthology of music by Charles Ives, a twentieth-birthday box from Vox Luminis, and a celebration of Sir Colin Davis's relationship with the Concertgebouworkest.
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Kathryn Stott - Five For The Road
22nd Oct 2024
Kathryn Stott is bringing her long performing career to an end this year, and releases her final recording with cellist Yo-Yo Ma on Sony Classical, this week. Matthew asked her to pick five highlights from her huge catalogue of recordings, and to offer a glimpse into what makes each so special to her.
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Alison Balsom talks about Baroque Concertos
21st Oct 2024
The trumpeter gives us the lowdown on her newly-released Baroque album - the inspirations behind it and the technical challenges it entails.
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Baroque Concertos from Alison Balsom
18th Oct 2024
Alison Balsom returns to the Baroque with a new collection of concerto adaptations by Simon Wright, and with the collaboration of Trevor Pinnock and Pinnock's Players.
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New Release Round-Up - 18th October 2024
18th Oct 2024
Music from the worlds of film, TV and gaming from Ray Chen, Bach albums from Alexandre Tharaud & Víkingur Ólafsson, orchestral works by Grace Williams, and a tribute to Cornélie Falcon from Aleksandra Kurzak.
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Roberto Alagna at 60
16th Oct 2024
The French-Sicilian tenor discusses his sixtieth-birthday album on Aparté, learning his craft in Paris cabaret clubs, being Michael Jackson's warm-up act, and why he regrets not getting started on Wagner earlier in his career...
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Episode 54: Manfred Honeck on Bruckner
15th Oct 2024
Our guest contributor Rob Cowan speaks to the Austrian conductor about his recent recording of Symphony No. 7 with the Pittsburgh Symphony, his long-standing relationship with Bruckner’s music, and the influence of the countryside & religion on the composer's musical imagination.
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BBC Music Magazine - November 2024 Choices
14th Oct 2024
Katherine introduces this month's choices, headed by 'a recording you'll want to sit down and savour' from Nicholas Daniel and Julius Drake on Chandos, featuring arrangements of works by Robert and Clara Schumann.
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Daniil Trifonov's (North) American Story
11th Oct 2024
The Russian pianist presents a dazzling kaleidoscope of North American music, with a variety of genres and styles covering minimalism, jazz, film music, and concertos by Gershwin and Mason Bates.
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New Release Round-Up - 11th October 2024
11th Oct 2024
Schoenberg from Rafael Payare in Montreal, Elgar and Walton from Gautier Capuçon, the LSO and Antonio Pappano, zarzuela from Juan Diego Flórez, & Chopin, Ravel and Ligeti from Jaeden Izik-Dzurko (winner of this year's Leeds Piano Competition).
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Leif Segerstam (1944-2024)
10th Oct 2024
The Finnish conductor, composer and multi-instrumentalist Leif Segerstam has died at the age of 80.
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Lawrence Brownlee on Donizetti's songs
9th Oct 2024
The American tenor introduces the inaugural volume of Opera Rara's mammoth Donizetti Song Project, which sees him joining forces with Carlo Rizzi to revive unpublished and previously-unrecorded songs - several of them written for the composer's friends to sing at parties...
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - Awards Issue 2024
8th Oct 2024
Chris introduces the latest selection, headed by a 'magnificent addition' to the Elgar Violin Concerto discography courtesy of Vilde Frang, Robin Ticciati and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin on Warner Classics.
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Kateřina Kněžíková on Strauss and Janáček
7th Oct 2024
The Czech soprano discusses her new recording of the 'Vier letzte Lieder' with her friend Jakub Hrůša, and reflects on her recent transition into more dramatic repertoire - beginning with Káťa Kabanová at Glyndebourne in 2021.
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A Mozart Requiem with a twist from Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon
4th Oct 2024
The French conductor and his dynamic ensemble shed new light on the score (given here in Süssmayr's familiar completion) by weaving in material from Mozart's youth which foreshadows ideas later developed in the Mass - including an early 'Miserere' and music from 'Thamos, König in Ägypten'.
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New Release Round-Up - 4th October 2024
4th Oct 2024
Brahms from Igor Levit, the Wiener Philharmoniker and Christian Thielemann, Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata from Marc-André Hamelin, an all-American programme from Daniil Trifonov, and a live recording of Mendelssohn's Elijah from the London Symphony Orchestra and Antonio Pappano (with Gerald Finley in the title-role).
