Latest stories
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Iestyn Davies on Michael Nyman and Henry Purcell
9th Apr 2019by David Smith
The countertenor talks to David about his new album with Fretwork, playing off the juxtaposition of baroque works by Henry Purcell with works by contemporary composer Michael Nyman.
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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'.
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Guy Johnston and Tom Poster on Themes and Variations
27th Feb 2019by David Smith
Cello and piano duo Guy Johnston and Tom Poster talk to David about their new album celebrating twenty years of music-making together.
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Berlioz from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles
18th Jan 2019by Katherine Cooper
Tabea Zimmermann and Stéphane Degout are the soloists in period-instrument performances of Harold en Italie & Les nuits d'été.
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Ian Bostridge on Requiem: The Pity of War
14th Jan 2019by Katherine Cooper
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.
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Alessandro Marangoni on Rossini
12th Dec 2018by Katherine Cooper
The Italian pianist talks to Katherine about his long-term mission to record the composer’s complete piano music (much of it written decades after his early retirement from opera), recently accomplished on Naxos.