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Ravel Piano Concertos from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles
20th May 2022
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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Dylan Perez on Samuel Barber
5th May 2022
The American pianist discusses recording his compatriot's complete songs on Resonus, with a line-up of singers including Mary Bevan, Fleur Barron, Jess Dandy, and his husband Nicky Spence.
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Samuel Barber: The Complete Songs
Dylan Perez (piano), Samantha Clarke, Soraya Mafi, Louise Kemény, Mary Bevan (sopranos), Fleur Barron (mezzo), Jess Dandy (contralto), Nicky Spence (tenor), Dominic Sedgwick, Julien Van Mellaerts (baritones), William Thomas (bass) Navarra String Quartet
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Joyce DiDonato on EDEN
7th Mar 2022
The American mezzo talks to Katherine about her new album on Erato, and answers some questions submitted by Presto readers along the way...
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Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
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Joyce DiDonato's EDEN
25th Feb 2022
Featuring music by composers including Ives, Cavalli, Handel, Gluck and Wagner (plus a ravishing new commission by Rachel Portman), the American mezzo's eclectic new concept-album with Il Pomo d'Oro explores our relationship with 'the grammar of the earth'.
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Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
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Julian Azkoul on Renewal
27th Jan 2022
The artistic director of United Strings of Europe talks to Katherine about the ensemble's genesis and future plans, and their new recording of works by Caroline Shaw, Joanna Marsh, Osvaldo Golijov and Felix Mendelssohn (out now on BIS).
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Long Yu on The Song of the Earth
17th Aug 2021
The conductor of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra talks about his new recording, pairing Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with a newly-commissioned setting by Xiaogang Ye of the original Chinese poems on which it was based.
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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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Strauss Lieder from Sandrine Piau and Daniel Behle
19th Mar 2021
The French soprano brings an uncommon freshness and flexibility to the Four Last Songs with the Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté, whilst Behle and his regular recital-partner Oliver Schnyder revel in the composer's coruscating attack on publishers in the rarely-recorded Der Krämerspiegel.
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James Newby on I Wonder as I Wander
9th Mar 2021
The young British baritone talks to Katherine about his career to date, and his debut recording of songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler and Britten on BIS.
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Fatma Said on El Nour
29th Oct 2020
The Egyptian soprano talks to Katherine about her debut solo album on Warner Classics, featuring songs by Egyptian, French and Spanish composers.
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Mahler from Christiane Karg, Malcolm Martineau - and Gustav Mahler
23rd Oct 2020
The German soprano and her regular recital-partner beguile in the Rückert-Lieder and songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit, whilst the composer himself makes an appearance (via a 1905 piano-roll) for ‘Das himmlische Leben’.
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Jonas Kaufmann & Helmut Deutsch: Selige Stunde
11th Sep 2020
Recorded 'in private quarters' during lockdown, the German tenor and pianist's recital of songs by Schubert, Strauss, Grieg, Zemlinsky, Mahler and others is a 'blessed hour' indeed.
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Selige Stunde
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)
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Nuits from Véronique Gens and I Giardini
24th Apr 2020
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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Véronique Gens (soprano), I Giardini
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Ruby Hughes on Clytemnestra
4th Mar 2020
The British soprano talks to Katherine about her new album featuring Rhian Samuel's Aeschylus-inspired monodrama and song-cycles by Mahler and Berg, out now on BIS.
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Bliss from Sarah Connolly, Sir Andrew Davis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra
8th Nov 2019
Davis continues his advocacy for the English composer with three relatively late works - the dramatic scena The Enchantress (written for Kathleen Ferrier), the Meditations on a Theme by John Blow, and the 1963 cantata Mary of Magdala.
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Soirée from Magdalena Kožená and friends
13th Sep 2019
The Czech mezzo is joined by her husband and assorted colleagues for a programme of songs for voice and chamber ensemble by Ravel, Brahms, Stravinsky, Chausson, Strauss, Dvořák and Janáček.
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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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Ian Bostridge on Requiem: The Pity of War
14th Jan 2019
The tenor talks to Katherine about his recent recording of songs by Mahler, George Butterworth, Rudi Stephan and Kurt Weill with Antonio Pappano, released at the end of October on Warner Classics.
