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Christopher Churcher on Moonrise
22nd Jun 2026by David Smith
The composer talks about his new album of works performed by Somerville College Choir, recently released on Resonus Classics, and in particular his three Pride Motets.
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Taylor Scott Davis on his Requiem and more...
10th Jun 2026by David Smith
The composer talks about his new album of works performed by VOCES8 and friends.
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Nico Muhly and Peter Phillips on No Resting Place
11th May 2026by David Smith
The composer, and the conductor of The Tallis Scholars, talk about their latest collaboration on an album of Nico's choral works.
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Michael Waldron on Colourise
17th Aug 2022by Katherine Cooper
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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Anna Lapwood on Celestial Dawn
25th Jul 2022by Katherine Cooper
The organist and conductor discusses her new recording with The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir, featuring music by composers including Nadia & Lili Boulanger, Kristina Arakelyan, Wayne Marshall and John Dankworth.
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Bart Van Reyn on CPE Bach's Die Auferstehung
14th Jun 2022by Katherine Cooper
The Belgian conductor discusses his new recording of Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu, a passion-oratorio on Christ's Resurrection and Ascension which was conducted by Mozart in the presence of Beethoven and Haydn (and influenced the latter's The Creation).
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Daniel Hyde on Lenten, Passiontide and Easter music from King's
25th Apr 2022by David Smith
The Director of Music at King's College discusses the Choir's new album, featuring music for Easter and the period leading up to it.
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Christmas Recordings from Fretwork and Christiane Karg
3rd Dec 2021by David Smith
The viol consort is joined by mezzo Helen Charlston for an Elizabethan Christmas, whilst Karg and her regular recital partner Gerold Huber offer a beautifully-plotted programme of Lieder and mélodies with a seasonal theme.
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Vaughan Williams's folksong arrangements
22nd Oct 2020by David Smith
Baritone Roderick Williams, pianist William Vann, and researcher John Francis discuss the first instalment in a new series of recordings, featuring previously unheard folksong arrangements by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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Episode 6: Played in the USA with Rob Cowan
15th Oct 2020by Paul Thomas
Rob Cowan returns to the show to discuss several box-sets by three European émigré artists who settled in America - pianist Andor Foldes, conductor Antal Doráti, and violinist Isaac Stern.
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Robert Trevino on Beethoven
4th Aug 2020by Katherine Cooper
The American conductor talks to Katherine about his recording of the complete symphonies with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, released in June on Ondine.
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Shostakovich from Kirill Karabits, Oleg Tsibulko and the Russian National Orchestra
17th Jul 2020by David Smith
A new recording of Shostakovich's complex 'Babi Yar' symphony with bass Oleg Tsibulko gets to the heart of a work that's often seen as all politics and no emotion.
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Byrd and more from the Magdalena Consort and friends
26th Jun 2020by David Smith
The Magdalena Consort, Fretwork and His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts join forces for a second volume of English verse-anthems presented in glorious instrumental Technicolor.
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Graham Ross on Arvo Pärt
28th Apr 2020by David Smith
The conductor of the choir of Clare College Cambridge talks to David about his new album, showcasing the music of Arvo Pärt, Pēteris Vasks and James MacMillan.
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Liszt’s Dante Symphony plus a world-premiere recording from Kirill Karabits
24th Jan 2020by James Longstaffe
Kirill Karabits conducts the Staatskapelle Weimar in orchestral works by Liszt, including the world-premiere recording of the Künstlerfestzug zur Schillerfeier.
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James Hall on Elegy
11th Dec 2019by Katherine Cooper
The young British countertenor talks to Katherine about his career to date and his recent album of duets by Purcell and Blow with Iestyn Davies and The King's Consort.
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Tom Herring on The Waiting Sky
2nd Dec 2019by David Smith
Sansara's Artistic Director Tom Herring talks to David about the choir's new recording of music for the Advent and Christmas seasons, featuring newly-commissioned works alongside Renaissance and Medieval motets.
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2019 Christmas Selections
29th Nov 2019by David Smith
David picks out three of this year's Christmas releases, featuring Septura (with guest appearance from Derek Jacobi), Stile Antico, and the late Stephen Cleobury in his valedictory service at the helm of Carols from King's.
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Vaughan Williams's The Song of Love
12th Oct 2019by David Smith
David talks to mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, pianist William Vann and Albion Records' John Francis about their recently-released album of songs and duets by Vaughan Williams, including a number of works never recorded before.
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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...