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Anna Lapwood on Celestial Dawn
25th Jul 2022
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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Daniel Hyde on Lenten, Passiontide and Easter music from King's
25th Apr 2022
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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Owain Park on Fading
20th Feb 2022
The consort's director Owain Park talks about their contemplative album from 2020, inspired by ancient monastic services and meditating on themes of darkness and light.
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Víkingur Ólafsson on Mozart and his Contemporaries
9th Sep 2021
The Icelandic pianist talks to Katherine about his new album exploring 'one of the most incredible decades in any composer's life', and his mission to 'get rid of some my own preconceptions about Mozart by finding out more about the music of his day'.
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Víkingur Ólafsson performs piano music by Mozart and contemporaries
3rd Sep 2021
For his fourth album on Deutsche Grammophon, the Icelandic pianist presents a sublime, intelligent programme of works by Mozart alongside pieces by Haydn, Galuppi, Cimarosa, and CPE Bach.
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Cecilia McDowall at 70
12th Jun 2021
The composer talks about the new album of her choral works recorded by Stephen Layton and Trinity College Choir, and looks back over her musical career.
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Peter Whelan on The Trials of Tenducci
23rd Mar 2021
The conductor talks to Katherine about his new recording with the Irish Baroque Orchestra, which explores the musical life of mid-eighteenth-century Dublin and the legacy of one of its brightest imported stars - the scandal-hit castrato Giusto Fernando Tenducci.
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Dame Gillian Weir at 80
28th Jan 2021
The internationally-renowned organist looks back on her career as she reaches her 80th birthday – discussing the organ's place as a solo instrument, her association with the music of Messiaen, Sir Malcolm Sargent and more.
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Luís Toscano on Duarte Lobo's choral music
26th Aug 2020
Luís Toscano, director of Portuguese vocal consort Cupertinos, talks about the group's new recording of two previously unrecorded masses by Duarte Lobo plus Christmas responsories and motets.
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Tallis, MacMillan and more from ORA Singers
21st Aug 2020
ORA Singers pair Tallis's mighty Spem in Alium with a newly-composed forty-part motet by James MacMillan, alongside a treasure-trove of choral works commissioned by Tudor nobility.
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Byrd and more from the Magdalena Consort and friends
26th Jun 2020
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 2020
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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Owen Rees on Josquin and his legacy
17th Feb 2020
David talks to conductor and musicologist Owen Rees about his latest album with Contrapunctus, exploring the impact of Josquin on Spanish polyphony.
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Christmas with the Gesualdo Six
17th Dec 2019
David talks to the vocal ensemble's founder and director Owain Park about their new album of Christmas music old and new, featuring repertoire from medieval plainchant to contemporary composers such as Eleanor Daley.
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Tom Herring on The Waiting Sky
2nd Dec 2019
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 2019
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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Laurie Stras on Brumel's Lamentations
5th Nov 2019
Musicologist and conductor Laurie Stras talks to David about her new album From Darkness into Light, which includes the first recording of Brumel's Lamentations - rediscovered by Stras after having been thought largely lost.
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Elizabeth Kenny on Old and New Music for Theorbo
29th Jul 2019
The theorbo-player and lutenist talks to David about her solo album Ars longa, released on Linn last month, which includes music by Kapsberger, Piccinini and Robert de Visée as well as new commissions from Benjamin Oliver and Nico Muhly.
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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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Guy Johnston & Jonathan Clinch on the Howells Cello Concerto
27th Jun 2019
David talks to cellist Guy Johnston and musicologist Jonathan Clinch about Howells's Cello Concerto - recently reconstructed by Clinch, recorded by Johnston and released on the King's College label.
