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Sean Shibe on Bach
18th Jun 2020
The eloquent young Scottish guitarist talks to Katherine about his third solo album on Delphian, Pour La Luth Ò Cembal, which was recently described by The Times as 'masterful, beautiful and convincing in every way'.
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Sean Shibe plays Bach Lute Suites
22nd May 2020
The award-winning young Scottish guitarist's third solo album on Delphian sees him turn to the music of JS Bach, with a highly varied triple-bill of suites for solo lute.
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The Well-Tempered Consort
4th Feb 2020
Phantasm's founder, director and violist Laurence Dreyfus talks to David about the consort's new disc, exploring the polyphonic keyboard works of JS Bach in new arrangements for viols.
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Phantasm, Liam Byrne
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Jonathan Sells on Christmas in Leipzig
25th Nov 2019
Jonathan Sells, artistic director of the British early music ensemble Solomon's Knot, talks to David about their début recording, featuring three consecutive musical directors at the Leipzig Thomaskirche - Johann Schelle, Johann Kuhnau and, of course, Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Kati Debretzeni on Bach's Violin Concertos
11th Nov 2019
Violinist Kati Debretzeni talks to David about her new recording of Bach violin concertos - originals and adaptations - with John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists.
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Antoine Tamestit on Bach
27th Aug 2019
The viola-player talks to David about his recording of the three gamba sonatas on Stradivari’s ‘Gustav Mahler’ viola from 1672 - one of only thirteen extant violas by the legendary Cremonese luthier.
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Mahan Esfahani plays Bach Toccatas
2nd Aug 2019
David enjoys Mahan Esfahani's exhilarating recording of Bach's seven keyboard toccatas, BWV910-916.
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Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
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Mahan Esfahani on Bach's Toccatas
2nd Aug 2019
The Iranian-American harpsichordist talks to David about his new album, featuring lively accounts of the seven keyboard toccatas by JS Bach.
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Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
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Rachel Podger on Bach's Cello Suites
9th May 2019
The violinist talks to David about her new album, which sees her perform JS Bach's popular cello suites on the violin.
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JS Bach: Cello Suites
Rachel Podger (violin)
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Rachel Podger plays the Bach Cello Suites
26th Apr 2019
The baroque violinist's own transcriptions of one of the pinnacles of the cello repertoire have an integrity and intelligence that's entirely convincing on its own terms, and the music never stops dancing.
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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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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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Hilary Hahn on Bach
30th Jan 2019
The American violinist talks to Katherine about returning to Bach's solo sonatas and partitas two decades after her debut recording aged 16.
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Thibaut Garcia on Bach Inspirations
1st Nov 2018
The French guitarist talks to Katherine about his new album of Bach-influenced works by Villa-Lobos, Tansman, Barrios Mangoré and Gounod - as well as transcriptions of the composer's own Chaconne and two of his best-known chorales.
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BACH 333 unboxed
25th Oct 2018
Chris and Katherine explore Deutsche Grammophon's mammoth new Bach Edition, produced in collaboration with Decca Classics and the Leipzig Bach Archive and running to over 280 hours of music.
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Masaaki Suzuki completes his Bach cantata cycle
28th Sep 2018
Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium bring their mighty Bach cycle to a close with a pairing of two 'Cantatas of Contentment'.
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Yo-Yo Ma records Bach's Cello Suites for the third and final time
17th Aug 2018
The Chinese-American cellist returns to works which he describes as his 'constant musical companions' in interpretations of uncommon freshness and spontaneity.
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Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
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Bach from William Christie and Beethoven from Masaaki Suzuki
30th Mar 2018
Two veteran early music specialists venture into new territory: William Christie conducts Bach's Mass in B minor and Masaaki Suzuki turns to Beethoven's Missa solemnis.
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Matthias Goerne sings cantatas for bass by JS Bach
1st Sep 2017
Katherine listens to the German baritone's deeply personal account of two solo cantatas, with Gottfried von der Goltz and the Freiburger Barockorchester.
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David Temple on recording Bach in English
11th Apr 2017
The conductor talks to David about his new St John Passion with the Crouch End Festival Chorus, sung in Neil Jenkins's translation.
