Classical Interviews
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Damien Guillon on Stradella
8th Apr 2020
The French conductor and countertenor talks to Katherine about recording the Italian composer's dramatic 1675 oratorio San Giovanni Battista with Le Banquet Céleste.
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Stradella: San Giovanni Battista
Le Banquet Céleste, Damien Guillon
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Richard Egarr on Handel's Brockes-Passion
7th Apr 2020
The conductor talks to David about his recording of Handel's visceral Passion setting, which was taken from a live performance at the Barbican on Good Friday 2019 and released on the Academy of Ancient Music's own label last autumn.
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Peter Jablonski on Scriabin
2nd Apr 2020
The pianist talks to David about his recently-released album of Scriabin mazurkas on Ondine.
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Scriabin: Mazurkas
Peter Jablonski (piano)
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Alain Lanceron
26th Mar 2020
The President of Warner Classics and Erato talks to Katherine about his fifty-year career.
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Enescu: Oedipe
Barbara Hendricks (Antigone), Brigitte Fassbaender (Jocasta), Nicolai Gedda (Shepherd), José Van Dam (Oedipus), Gabriel Bacquier (Tiresias), Marcel Vanaud (Creon), Gino Quilico (Theseus), Marjana Lipovsek (The Sphinx) Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orfeon Donostiarra, Lawrence Foster
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Víkingur Ólafsson on Debussy and Rameau
23rd Mar 2020
James talks to Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson about his latest album on Deutsche Grammophon: a fascinating pairing of music by Debussy and Jean Philippe Rameau.
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Eric Lu on Chopin, Brahms and Schumann
19th Mar 2020
The Leeds International Piano Competition winner talks to Katherine about his first studio recording, released on Warner Classics last month.
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Chen Reiss on Beethoven's Women
17th Mar 2020
The Israeli soprano talks to Katherine about her new album on Onyx Classics, Immortal Beloved, which includes music from Fidelio and Egmont as well as some of the composer's earliest vocal works.
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Erkki-Sven Tüür on Mythos
13th Mar 2020
The Estonian composer talks to David about his new album of three world premieres on Alpha, with long-time friend and collaborator Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra.
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Erkki-Sven Tüür: Mythos
Estonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
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Simon Callaghan on Roger Sacheverell Coke
11th Mar 2020
The pianist discusses his research on the life and work of the British composer, whose Cello Sonatas he has recently recorded with Raphael Wallfisch on Lyrita.
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Odaline de la Martinez on Ethel Smyth
8th Mar 2020
The Cuban-American conductor talks to David about the music of Ethel Smyth, four of whose songs she conducts on a new album from Somm.
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Stanford String Quartets from the Dante Quartet
5th Mar 2020
David talks to violinist Krysia Osostowicz and musicologist Jeremy Dibble about the final volume in the Dante Quartet's Stanford cycle.
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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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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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Papagena - Hush!
15th Feb 2020
David talks to members of the all-female vocal quintet about their new recording on Somm Recordings.
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Paavo Järvi on the NHK Symphony Orchestra
13th Feb 2020
Ahead of the release of their album of Bartók on Sony Classical tomorrow, the Japanese orchestra's Chief Conductor talks to Katherine about expanding their twentieth-century and contemporary repertoire and his plans for their future together.
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Kate Lindsey on Arianna
11th Feb 2020
The American mezzo (currently starring as Nerone in Handel's Agrippina at the Metropolitan Opera) talks to Katherine about her new recording of cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti, Handel and Haydn, released last month on Alpha.
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Ēriks Ešenvalds on There Will Come Soft Rains
8th Feb 2020
Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds talks to David about his new album of choral works, recorded by the Choir of the West at Pacific Lutheran University in Washington.
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The Well-Tempered Consort
4th Feb 2020
Phantasm's founder, director and violist Laurence Dreyfus talks to David about the consort's new disc, exploring the polyphonic keyboard works of JS Bach in new arrangements for viols.
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Bach: The Well-Tempered Consort – I
Phantasm, Liam Byrne
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John Wilson on Sinfonia of London
30th Jan 2020
The British conductor talks to James about his new ensemble and their first two recording projects of music by Korngold plus a selection of French orchestral works.
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Reinoud Van Mechelen on Charpentier
28th Jan 2020
The Belgian tenor talks to David about his recent double-bill of Charpentier's settings of the Orpheus myth, with A Nocte Temporis and Vox Luminis.
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Charpentier: Orphée aux enfers
Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor), A Nocte Temporis, Philippe Froeliger, Déborah Cachet, Geoffroy Buffière, Stefanie True, Clara Coutouly, Raphael Höhn, A Vocte Temporis, Victoria Cassano, Zsuzsi Tóth, Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
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