Classical Interviews
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Richard Watkins on The Romantic Horn
14th Mar 2019
The British horn-player talks to David about his new album of music by Beethoven, Strauss, Schumann, Scriabin and more with the pianist Julius Drake, out now on Signum Classics.
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Andreas Ottensamer on Blue Hour
11th Mar 2019
Clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer talks to David about his new album of Romantic clarinet works, with Yuja Wang and the Berliner Philharmoniker.
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Leila Josefowicz on Bernd Alois Zimmermann
5th Mar 2019
In the wake of her new recording of the Violin Concerto on Ondine with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the American-Canadian violinist tells Katherine about her 'crusade' to bring the German composer's music to a wider audience.
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Guy Johnston and Tom Poster on Themes and Variations
27th Feb 2019
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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Guy Johnston (cello), Tom Poster (piano)
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Mark Bebbington on Private Passions
25th Feb 2019
The British pianist talks to David about his new album of works by Arnold Bax & Harriet Cohen.
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Kirill Gerstein on Busoni
20th Feb 2019
The pianist talks to Katherine about his recording of the Italian composer’s gargantuan Piano Concerto of 1904, released this week on Myrios with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo.
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The Foyle-Štšura Duo on Penderecki and Lutosławski
18th Feb 2019
David talks to the Duo about their new album exploring chamber works by two Polish twentieth-century giants.
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Sir George Benjamin on Lessons in Love and Violence
13th Feb 2019
The composer talks to Katherine about the genesis of his third opera, which premiered at Covent Garden last May and was released on DVD and Blu-ray at the end of December.
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Stéphane Degout (King), Barbara Hannigan (Isabel), Gyula Orendt (Gaveston/Stranger), Peter Hoare (Mortimer), Samuel Boden (Boy/Young King) Orchestra of The Royal Opera House, George Benjamin, Katie Mitchell
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David Trippett on Liszt's Sardanapalo
8th Feb 2019
The musicologist and driving-force behind today's Recording of the Week talks to Katherine about the mysterious genesis of Liszt's uncompleted opera, and the process of reconstructing the manuscript for performance.
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Hilary Hahn on Bach
30th Jan 2019
The American violinist talks to Katherine about returning to Bach's solo sonatas and partitas two decades after her debut recording aged 16.
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Will Todd on his Jazz Missa Brevis
24th Jan 2019
The composer talks to David about his new album of jazz-infused choral works, pairing a set of Passiontide works with a new Missa Brevis.
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Boris Giltburg on Liszt
16th Jan 2019
David talks to the Russian-born Israeli pianist about his recording of the Études d'exécution transcendante, released last Friday on Naxos.
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Boris Giltburg (piano)
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Ian Bostridge on Requiem: The Pity of War
14th Jan 2019
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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Jennifer Pike on The Polish Violin
10th Jan 2019
The violinist talks to Katherine about her new album of music by Wieniawski, Szymanowski, Karłowicz and Moszkowski, released last Friday on Chandos Records.
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Carolyn Sampson on Abbandonata
27th Dec 2018
The soprano talks to Katherine about her recording of four of Handel's Italian cantatas, including Armida abbandonata and Agrippina condotta a morire, released on Vivat in October.
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John Andrews on Arthur Sullivan's The Light of the World
20th Dec 2018
The conductor talks to Katherine about the world premiere recording of Sullivan's 1873 oratorio on the life of Christ, which was released last month on Dutton.
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Julian Prégardien on Hans Zender's Winterreise
18th Dec 2018
The German tenor talks to Katherine about recording Zender's 'composed interpretation' of Schubert's great song-cycle, out now on Alpha.
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Alessandro Marangoni on Rossini
12th Dec 2018
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.
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Alessandro Marangoni (piano)
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William Vann on A Vaughan Williams Christmas
6th Dec 2018
William Vann talks to David about a new album recorded by the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, devoted entirely to Christmas works by Vaughan Williams and featuring a number of world-première recordings.
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Colin Currie on The Scene of the Crime
26th Nov 2018
Trailblazing percussionist Colin Currie talks to David about his recent duo recording with trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger.
