Classical Interviews
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Julian Perkins on John Eccles's Semele
18th Mar 2021
The conductor and keyboardist talks about his recent recording of John Eccles's tragic Semele with the Academy of Ancient Music.
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Renaud Capuçon on Elgar
16th Mar 2021
The French violinist talks to Katherine about recording the Violin Concerto and Sonata with Sir Simon Rattle, the London Symphony Orchestra, and Stephen Hough.
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Julian Perkins on Stephen Dodgson
11th Mar 2021
The conductor talks to Katherine about the world première recording of the 1979 chamber-opera Margaret Catchpole, which tells the story of a Suffolk servant-girl who was deported to Australia for stealing a horse in the late eighteenth century.
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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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Clare Hammond on Variations
3rd Mar 2021
The pianist talks about her new album, that sees her draw together numerous different sets of variations from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Variations
Clare Hammond (piano)
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Johan Dalene on Nordic Rhapsody
2nd Mar 2021
The Swedish violinist talks about his new album of music from Northern Europe, with pianist Christian Ihle Hadland.
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Emmanuel Despax on Spira, Spera
25th Feb 2021
The pianist talks about his new album of Bach transcriptions, inspired in part by his personal reaction to the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of 2019.
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Francesca Dego on Paganini's Violin
22nd Feb 2021
The violinist talks about her new recording on Paganini's own violin, featuring works by, dedicated to and responding to the great composer.
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Jake Heggie and friends on Intonations
18th Feb 2021
Along with violinist Daniel Hope and mezzo Sasha Cooke, the American composer talks to Katherine about his song-cycle, inspired by and written for a group of instruments which survived the Holocaust.
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Christian Immler on Hans Gál
10th Feb 2021
The German bass-baritone talks to Katherine about Hidden Treasures (out now on BIS), featuring world premiere recordings of twenty-six songs which the Austrian-born composer 'laid aside'.
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Simone Menezes on Ensemble K
8th Feb 2021
The Brazilian conductor talks to Katherine about Accents, her debut recording with her hand-picked ensemble, which features music by Copland, Borodin, Villa-Lobos, Debussy and Lacaze.
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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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François-Xavier Roth on Beethoven & Gossec
21st Jan 2021
The French conductor talks to Katherine about his Presto Award-winning recording of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Gossec's Symphonie à 17 parties.
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Nicolas Hodges on Birtwistle and Beethoven
19th Jan 2021
Reflecting on his recent release on Wergo, the pianist talks about Bagatelles, improvisation and his own relationship with Harrison Birtwistle.
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Ivan Ilić on L’art de varier
13th Jan 2021
The pianist talks to Katherine about the third volume of his acclaimed Antoine Reicha series on Chandos (released last Friday), which features just one work - an extraordinary set of 57 variations composed in 1802–03.
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Ironwood on Louise Farrenc
12th Jan 2021
The Australian period-instrument ensemble's cellist Daniel Yeadon and fortepianist Neal Peres Da Costa talk to Katherine about their recording of the French composer-pianist's Piano Quintet No. 1, released on ABC Classics last autumn.
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Hélène Grimaud on The Messenger
7th Jan 2021
The French pianist talks to Katherine about her recording of works by Mozart and Valentin Silvestrov with Camerata Salzburg, released at the end of last year on Deutsche Grammophon.
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Neal Davies on Vaughan Williams
31st Dec 2020
The Welsh bass-baritone talks to Katherine about recording the Songs of Travel with Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé, in orchestrations by the composer and his assistant Roy Douglas.
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Paavo Järvi on Franz Schmidt and Tchaikovsky
22nd Dec 2020
The Estonian conductor talks to Katherine about falling in love with the music of Franz Schmidt, and how Leonard Bernstein reignited his passion for the Tchaikovsky symphonies.
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Errollyn Wallen's Peace on Earth
17th Dec 2020
The composer talks to David about her recently-released EP of three choral works, recorded with the Choir of King's College Cambridge under the late Stephen Cleobury.
