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Christoph Croisé on his Russian Album
4th Nov 2019by Katherine Cooper
The award-winning young cellist talks to Katherine about his second album on Avie, featuring sonatas by Rachmaninov and Shostakovich.
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Jonas Kaufmann in Vienna
11th Oct 2019by Katherine Cooper
The German tenor sings the praises of the Austrian capital in a sumptuously-performed collection of operetta favourites and popular songs with a sting in its tail.
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Robin Ticciati on Duruflé and Debussy
12th Sep 2019by Katherine Cooper
The conductor talks to Katherine about his third recording of French repertoire with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, which pairs the Duruflé Requiem with Debussy's Nocturnes.
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Works by Richard Strauss from Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra
6th Sep 2019by James Longstaffe
Riccardo Chailly conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in thrillingly-detailed and impassioned performances of four orchestral works by Richard Strauss.
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Andrew Manze on Vaughan Williams
5th Sep 2019by David Smith
The conductor talks to David about his recently-concluded series of Vaughan Williams symphonies with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on Onyx, and the postscript to the cycle which will be released in October...
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John Wilson conducts Korngold's Symphony in F sharp
30th Aug 2019by James Longstaffe
John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London show their impressive credentials when it comes to the music of Korngold, with a thrillingly-performed account of the Symphony in F sharp.
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Long Yu on Gateways
22nd Aug 2019by David Smith
The conductor talks to David about his new album with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra - marking the orchestra's signing to Deutsche Grammophon with a programme of Russian- and Chinese- related works, including two by Shanghai-born composer Qigang Chen.
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Jess Gillam on RISE
2nd May 2019by Katherine Cooper
The young saxophonist talks to Katherine about her debut solo album on Decca, released last week and including music by Dowland, Milhaud and David Bowie, plus a new commission by her teacher and producer John Harle.
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Paul McCreesh on An English Coronation
1st May 2019by David Smith
The conductor talks to David about his latest recording with Gabrieli, which weaves music and readings from the coronations of four British monarchs (Edward VII, George V, George VI, and Elizabeth II) into a composite ceremony, recorded in Ely Cathedral.
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Valentina Lisitsa on Tchaikovsky
24th Apr 2019by David Smith
The Ukrainian pianist talks to David about her monumental latest recording project - the complete solo piano works of Tchaikovsky.
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Alexander Ullman on Russian ballet transcriptions
19th Mar 2019by Katherine Cooper
The winner of the 2017 International Franz Liszt Piano Competition talks to Katherine about his debut solo album of music by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Prokofiev, released last Friday on Rubicon.
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Isabelle Faust plays Bach Concertos
15th Mar 2019by David Smith
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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Stravinsky and Rimsky-Korsakov from Vasily Petrenko and the Liverpool Philharmonic
14th Dec 2018by Katherine Cooper
The Russian conductor presides over sparkling, taut accounts of two avian fairy-tales: the complete ballet music for The Firebird and the suite from the posthumously-premiered opera Le Coq d’Or.
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François-Xavier Roth conducts orchestral works by Debussy
7th Dec 2018by James Longstaffe
James listens to a captivating account of three orchestral works by Debussy from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles, performed on authentic instruments.