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Biber's Requiem from Vox Luminis
26th Feb 2021
Lionel Meunier's ensemble explore a time of religious and musical flux in Europe, with an album centred around Heinrich Biber's Requiem and less-heard works by his contemporaries.
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Biber: Requiem
Freiburger Barockconsort, Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
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New Release Round-Up - 26th February 2021
26th Feb 2021
Piazzolla from Lucienne Renaudin Vary, Bartók from Thomas Dausgaard, Brahms from Antoine Tamestit and Cédric Tiberghien, and French theatre music from Neeme Järvi.
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Emmanuel Despax on Spira, Spera
25th Feb 2021
The pianist talks about his new album of Bach transcriptions, inspired in part by his personal reaction to the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of 2019.
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BBC Music Magazine - March 2021 Choices
24th Feb 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, with a 'sexy, sparkling' account of John Eccles's Semele from the Academy of Ancient Music and Julian Perkins in pride of place.
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New Decca and Deutsche Grammophon titles added to Presto CD
23rd Feb 2021
Featured artists on our latest batch include Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jorge Bolet, Martha Argerich, and Erich Kleiber.
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Francesca Dego on Paganini's Violin
22nd Feb 2021
The violinist talks about her new recording on Paganini's own violin, featuring works by, dedicated to and responding to the great composer.
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Ludovic Tézier sings Verdi
19th Feb 2021
The French baritone is on spine-tingling form in a high-octane programme of arias from operas including La forza del destino, Otello, Don Carlos, and Falstaff.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th February 2021
19th Feb 2021
Liszt from Benjamin Grosvenor, Beethoven from Freiburg, Bach from Francesco Corti and Il Pomo d’Oro, and an homage to Piazzolla from Ksenija Sidorova.
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Jake Heggie and friends on Intonations
18th Feb 2021
Along with violinist Daniel Hope and mezzo Sasha Cooke, the American composer talks to Katherine about his song-cycle, inspired by and written for a group of instruments which survived the Holocaust.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2021: Shortlist
18th Feb 2021
The nominations are just in and voting is open...
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Introducing My Library
17th Feb 2021
Here's an update on the latest feature we added to the site: a new web player to explore and listen to your CDs and download collections online.
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Steuart Bedford (1939-2021)
16th Feb 2021
The British conductor and pianist, who worked closely with Benjamin Britten and premiered two of his late major works, has died aged 81.
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Britten: Death in Venice
Peter Pears (Aschenbach), John Shirley-Quirk (Traveller/Elderly Fop/Old Gondolier/Hotel Manager/Hotel Barber/Leader of the Players/Voice of Dionysus), James Bowman (Voice of Apollo) English Opera Group Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford
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Boxed Set Selections - February 2021
15th Feb 2021
A celebration of Natalie Dessay on stage and in the studio, a multi-conductor Mahler cycle from the Berliner Philharmoniker, and Strauss's complete tone-poems from François-Xavier Roth and the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg.
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Violins of Hope
12th Feb 2021
Instruments previously owned by Holocaust survivors and restored by the Weinstein family sing with a special power in Schubert, Mendelssohn, and a new work by Jake Heggie which tells their stories.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th February 2021
12th Feb 2021
Italian baroque music from La Serenissima, new works by Raymond Yiu, Bright Sheng and Martin Suckling, and a rare outing for Luigi Rossi's extravagant 1647 opera L'Orfeo.
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Episode 12: A Song in Our Hearts with Natasha Loges
11th Feb 2021
In this Valentine's Day Special, Paul talks with author Natasha Loges about the art of Romantic song, as it moved from Vienna to Leipzig in the nineteenth Century.
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Christian Immler on Hans Gál
10th Feb 2021
The German bass-baritone talks to Katherine about Hidden Treasures (out now on BIS), featuring world premiere recordings of twenty-six songs which the Austrian-born composer 'laid aside'.
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Lise Davidsen's second album and other forthcoming highlights
9th Feb 2021
Beethoven, Verdi, Wagner and more from the Norwegian lyric-dramatic soprano, plus Elgar from Renaud Capuçon, Bach from Rinaldo Alessandrini, and the DVD premiere of Jake Heggie's Great Scott with Joyce DiDonato.
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Simone Menezes on Ensemble K
8th Feb 2021
The Brazilian conductor talks to Katherine about Accents, her debut recording with her hand-picked ensemble, which features music by Copland, Borodin, Villa-Lobos, Debussy and Lacaze.
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Andris Nelsons conducts Bruckner's Second and Eighth Symphonies
5th Feb 2021
The Gewandhausorchester and Andris Nelsons continue their Bruckner cycle with sublime, lyrical performances of the Second and Eighth Symphonies.
