Classical Interviews
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Sean Shibe on Profesión - Barrios, Villa-Lobos and Ginastera
22nd Nov 2023
The guitarist talks about his album of Latin American guitar music, inspired by the artistic manifesto by Barrios from which it takes its name.
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Profesión
Sean Shibe (guitar)
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The King's Singers on Wonderland
16th Nov 2023
Patrick Dunachie and Jonathan Howard talk about the King's Singers' new album - including an unexpected change of direction for Joe Hisaishi and some revealing observations about the group's members...!
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Maxim Emelyanychev on Mozart
9th Nov 2023
In the wake of the second instalment of his Mozart symphonies series with Il Pomo d'Oro, the Russian conductor and harpsichordist recounts how he fell under the composer's spell aged four - and was thrown in at the deep end to conduct the Overture to Le nozze di Figaro just eight years later...
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Robert Hollingworth on Benevoli's multi-choir magnificence
7th Nov 2023
The director of I Fagiolini talks about his new album, featuring a four-choir work of unparalleled Baroque splendour by the seventeenth-century Italian composer Orazio Benevoli.
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Johan Dalene on Stained Glass
26th Oct 2023
The Gramophone Award-winning young violinist discusses his new album with Christian Ihle Hadland, featuring music by Bacewicz, Ravel, Prokofiev, Pärt and Lili Boulanger.
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Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Transfigured
24th Oct 2023
The chamber ensemble's Artistic Director Tom Poster talks about their new album of works from the Second Viennese School - with a selection of songs from the cruelly truncated career of Alma Mahler in pride of place.
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Zubin Kanga - the 'cyborg pianist'
18th Oct 2023
The pianist, composer and technologist talks about his new album on NMC that uses cutting-edge equipment to push the boundaries of what the instrument (and its player) can do.
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Zubin Kanga: Cyborg Pianist
Zubin Kanga (piano)
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Delyana Lazarova on the music of Dobrinka Tabakova
16th Oct 2023
The conductor talks about her new album of orchestral works by her compatriot, performed by the Hallé, and explains a little of the experience of working under Mark Elder as Assistant Conductor.
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Anders Eidsten Dahl on Mozart and the Organ
9th Oct 2023
The organist talks about his new recording of Mozart gems for the organ - relatively brief single-work sonatas written for use during church services, as well as more substantial works including two dramatic Fantasias.
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Dominic Fyfe and Philip Siney on remastering Solti's Ring Cycle
5th Oct 2023
In the wake of winning Gramophone's Spatial Audio Award for their painstaking work on Die Walküre, Decca's producer Dominic Fyfe and sound-engineer Philip Siney discuss how they went about showcasing Solti's landmark achievement in all its glory.
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
George London (Wotan), Kirsten Flagstad (Fricka), Claire Watson (Freia), Set Svanholm (Loge), Waldemar Kmentt (Froh), Eberhard Wächter (Donner), Paul Kuen (Mime), Jean Madeira (Erda), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Walter Kreppel (Fasolt), Kurt Böhme (Fafner) Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
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Miloš Karadaglić on Baroque (transcript)
1st Oct 2023
The Montenegrin guitarist explains why his upcoming album of music by Vivaldi, Marcello, Weiss, Rameau and others feels like 'standing on new ground' - and why JS Bach only came into the picture at the eleventh hour...
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Miloš: Baroque
Miloš Karadaglić (guitar), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
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William Vann on Parry's Prometheus Unbound
28th Sep 2023
The conductor discusses the world premiere recording of Parry's 1880 setting of scenes from Shelley's lyrical drama - the first performance of which was described by the musicologist Ernest Walker as 'a definite birthday for modern English music'...
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John Corigliano and Mark Adamo on The Lord of Cries
21st Sep 2023
The composer and librettist discuss their spine-tingling new opera fusing elements of Bram Stoker's Dracula and Euripides's The Bacchae, released on Pentatone earlier this month and starring countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo as Dionysus.
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John Andrews on Ethel Smyth's Der Wald
11th Sep 2023
The conductor discusses the first-ever recording of Smyth's second opera - a deliciously dark fairy-tale in one act, which was premiered in Berlin in 1902 and subsequently transferred to the Metropolitan Opera.
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John Wilson on Oklahoma!
7th Sep 2023
In the run-up to the release of his new recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's first musical, the conductor explains how a chance encounter with the piece at the age of fourteen changed his life - and why he considers it to be 'the Marriage of Figaro of the twentieth century'.
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Jonathan Sells on motets by two Bachs
6th Sep 2023
The founder and director of early music collective Solomon's Knot talks about the group's new album of motets, pairing Johann Sebastian Bach's six motets with those of his ancestor and precursor Johann Christoph.
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Suzi Digby on Sanctissima
28th Aug 2023
The founder and director of the ORA Singers talks about her new album of music inspired by Vespers, and her ongoing mission to celebrate choral music from two Golden Ages centuries apart.
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Tim Parker-Langston on Fanny Hensel's Lieder
24th Aug 2023
The tenor and musicologist discusses his mission to make Hensel's complete songs readily available to audiences and performers alike - and explains why her music 'just never stops surprising us'...
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Julian Perkins explores Handel's Attick
15th Aug 2023
The man BBC Radio 3 dubbed the "Indiana Jones of Early Music" talks about his new album of music for the clavichord - an instrument that most definitely doesn't belong in a museum.
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Joseph Middleton on Mahler
7th Aug 2023
The pianist discusses his mission to record all of Mahler's songs in the versions for voice and piano (which launched at the end of last month on Signum Classics) and recounts how 'there was never a grand plan for this to be my job'...
