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Beethoven Symphonies from Ádám Fischer and the Danish Chamber Orchestra
19th Jul 2019
Ádám Fischer conducts the Danish Chamber Orchestra in frequently thrilling, occasionally controversial, but always fascinating performances of Beethoven's symphonies.
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David Skinner on Praetorius
15th Jul 2019
The artistic director of Alamire talks to David about the choir's new album featuring large-scale polychoral works by Hieronymus Praetorius, with His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts.
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Mark Williams on The Pillar of the Cloud
6th Jun 2019
Director of Music Mark Williams talks to David about his new album with the choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, surveying music from the past five centuries connected to the city.
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Lise Davidsen sings Wagner and Strauss
31st May 2019
The robust young Norwegian soprano thrills in scenes from Tannhäuser and Ariadne auf Naxos, and Strauss's Four Last Songs.
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Lise Davidsen on Wagner & Strauss
27th May 2019
The Norwegian lyric-dramatic soprano discusses her career so far and her debut album on Decca, out this Friday.
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Paul McCreesh on An English Coronation
1st May 2019
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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An English Coronation, 1902-1953
Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh
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John Nelson on Berlioz
7th Mar 2019
Ahead of his performance and recording of the Grande Messe des Morts at St Paul's Cathedral tomorrow evening to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer's death, the American conductor talks to Katherine about his fifty-year relationship with music which 'lit something up in me that's remained all my life'.
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Leila Josefowicz on Bernd Alois Zimmermann
5th Mar 2019
In the wake of her new recording of the Violin Concerto on Ondine with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the American-Canadian violinist tells Katherine about her 'crusade' to bring the German composer's music to a wider audience.
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Kirill Gerstein on Busoni
20th Feb 2019
The pianist talks to Katherine about his recording of the Italian composer’s gargantuan Piano Concerto of 1904, released this week on Myrios with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo.
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100 Years of Nine Lessons & Carols from King's
30th Nov 2018
David enjoys a retrospective recording from the choir of King's College, looking back on a century of festive music-making and forward to a new era.
