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Klaus Mäkelä conducts Berlioz and Ravel
6th Jun 2025
The Finnish conductor and the Orchestre de Paris present an incredibly colourful and terrifying reading of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique alongside a riotously chaotic account of Ravel's La valse.
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Domingo Hindoyan on life in Liverpool
5th Oct 2022
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra's new Chief Conductor talks about his debut recording of Debussy, Roussel and Dukas on Onyx, his relationship with his mentor Daniel Barenboim, and how being part of the original El Sistema in Venezuela has informed his approach to music education and community work.
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Alison Balsom on Quiet City
14th Sep 2022
The trumpet-player discusses her new album of music by composers including Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein and Ives, and reflects on the unique qualities of Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie...
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Alison Balsom's Quiet City
26th Aug 2022
Alison Balsom and the Britten Sinfonia offer a colourful collection of works and arrangements that place the trumpet firmly at the centre of attention.
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Michael Waldron on Colourise
17th Aug 2022
The director of London Choral Sinfonia discusses their new album, featuring the world premiere recordings of Lennox Berkeley's Variations on a Hymn by Orlando Gibbons and Vaughan Williams's arrangement of the Five Mystical Songs for voice, choir, piano and strings .
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Episode 28: Karel Ančerl Live with Rob Cowan and Matouš Vlčinský
27th Feb 2022
The live recordings by the great Czech conductor Karel Ančerl, and Bohemian musical culture are explored by Rob Cowan and Matouš Vlčinský from Supraphon records.
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John Wilson on Ravel
7th Feb 2022
The British conductor talks to James about his latest album with Sinfonia of London devoted to the music of Maurice Ravel, which includes the original versions of both Ma Mère L’oye and Boléro.
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John Wilson conducts orchestral works by Ravel
28th Jan 2022
The latest album from Sinfonia of London and John Wilson presents a dazzling collection of orchestral works by Ravel, including La valse and Pavane pour une infante défunte alongside premiere recordings of the original versions of Ma Mère l'Oye and Boléro.
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Andrew Litton on Prokofiev
30th Sep 2021
The American conductor talks to Katherine about his recordings of the complete Prokofiev symphonies with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, released as a box-set tomorrow on BIS.
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Víkingur Ólafsson on Mozart and his Contemporaries
9th Sep 2021
The Icelandic pianist talks to Katherine about his new album exploring 'one of the most incredible decades in any composer's life', and his mission to 'get rid of some my own preconceptions about Mozart by finding out more about the music of his day'.
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Víkingur Ólafsson performs piano music by Mozart and contemporaries
3rd Sep 2021
For his fourth album on Deutsche Grammophon, the Icelandic pianist presents a sublime, intelligent programme of works by Mozart alongside pieces by Haydn, Galuppi, Cimarosa, and CPE Bach.
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Episode 20: Fresh Air in the Pipes - Organ Music with Anna Lapwood
29th Aug 2021
This week's guest is one of Britain's most talented young organists, Anna Lapwood, giving us a potted history of the organ's history, and a tour of her eclectic new record, Images.
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Sean Shibe's Camino
20th Aug 2021
The guitarist brings hypnotic, introspective beauty to a programme which explores connections between France and Spain via works by de Falla, Mompou, Ravel, Poulenc and Satie.
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Sean Shibe (guitar)
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Sean Shibe on Camino
20th Aug 2021
The Scottish guitarist talks to Katherine about today's Recording of the Week, which he describes as 'a profound spiritual journey'.
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Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla: The British Project
13th Aug 2021
The Lithuanian conductor and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra present evocative and dramatic accounts of four works by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten, and Walton.
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Sibelius from Edward Gardner, the Bergen Philharmonic, and Lise Davidsen
2nd Jul 2021
The Norwegian soprano combines drama and delicacy in the tone-poem Luonnotar, whilst the Bergen string sound in Tapiola, Rakastava and Pelléas & Mélisande is a thing to marvel at.
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Leif Ove Andsnes on Mozart Momentum
5th Jun 2021
The Norwegian pianist talks about his new album, the first of a diptych that focuses in on a formative moment in Mozart's evolution as a composer.
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Linus Roth on Virtuoso Dances
1st Jun 2021
The violinist talks about his recent album of works putting virtuosic twists on dance music - from Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances to Piazzólla's Grand Tango.
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Linus Roth (violin), José Gallardo
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John Brancy and Peter Dugan on The Journey Home
28th May 2021
The American baritone and pianist talk to Katherine about their recital and film-project exploring the aftermath of war, released digitally today to mark Memorial Weekend.
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John Brancy (baritone), Peter Dugan (piano)
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Ana de la Vega on Bach Unbuttoned
6th May 2021
The Australian flautist talks about her new album of new perspectives on Bach, inspired by an intriguing detail on one of the most famous statues erected to him.
