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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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Ravel Piano Concertos from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles
20th May 2022by David Smith
Les Siècles continue their successful series of Ravel recordings on period instruments under François-Xavier Roth, with Cédric Tiberghien at the piano and baritone Stéphane Degout.
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Coco Tomita on Origins
3rd Mar 2022by David Smith
The violinist talks about her debut album Origins, released tomorrow on Orchid Classics, and discusses her musical upbringing and influences.
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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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Episode 24: On Song with The Hermes Experiment
31st Oct 2021by Paul Thomas
Paul meets the members of The Hermes Experiment, one of the UK's most innovative contemporary music groups, in the week that their second album is released on Delphian Records.
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Philippe Jaroussky & Thibaut Garcia: À sa guitare
22nd Oct 2021by Katherine Cooper
The French countertenor and guitarist join forces for an eclectic, beguiling programme ranging from Dowland to Barbara, whilst Jaroussky's younger label-mate Jakub Józef Orliński dazzles in sacred baroque works with Il Pomo d'Oro.
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Janine Jansen plays twelve Stradivari
10th Sep 2021by David Smith
Janine Jansen, accompanied by Antonio Pappano, explores the unique sounds of twelve different Stradivari violins in a unusual and fascinating recording project.
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Nuits from Véronique Gens and I Giardini
24th Apr 2020by Katherine Cooper
The French soprano explores the themes of night and dreams on this beguiling programme of mélodies from the Belle Époque, given here in atmospheric new arrangements for voice and piano quintet by Alexandre Dratwicki.
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Angela Gheorghiu on Plaisir d'amour
8th Dec 2019by Katherine Cooper
On the 25th anniversary of the BBC broadcast of her landmark Traviata from Covent Garden, the Romanian soprano reminisces about the production with Katherine and discusses her new recording on Decca Classics.
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Carolyn Sampson on Reason in Madness
15th Apr 2019by Katherine Cooper
The soprano talks to Katherine about her Nietzsche-inspired recital of songs depicting vulnerable women by Debussy, Koechlin, Poulenc, Schumann and others, out now on BIS.
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John Nelson on Berlioz
7th Mar 2019by Katherine Cooper
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'.