Classical Interviews
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Brazilian Adventures with Ex Cathedra
20th Oct 2015
Conductor and musicologist Jeffrey Skidmore talks to David about his latest CD of Latin American Baroque rarities, and about musical heritages lost and found.
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Juan Diego Flórez on 'Italia!'
30th Sep 2015
Katherine talks to the Peruvian tenor about his new disc of popular Neapolitan songs.
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Harp Concertos from Anneleen Lenaerts
15th Sep 2015
Harpist Anneleen Lenaerts talks to David about her new disc of concertos with the Brussels Philharmonic.
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Joyce DiDonato
5th Sep 2015
The great American mezzo talks to Katherine about her new recital-disc with Tony Pappano from the Wigmore Hall.
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Henning Kraggerud's Equinox
2nd Sep 2015
David talks to the Norwegian violinist and composer about Equinox, his new sequence of concertos depicting 24 hours in 24 time-zones.
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Ian Venables
24th Aug 2015
In the wake of his sixtieth birthday last month, Katherine talks to the British composer about his latest disc 'The Song of the Severn', out now on Signum.
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Prokofiev from Kirill Karabits
19th Aug 2015
David talks to conductor Kirill Karabits about the latest instalment in his Prokofiev series.
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Pablo Heras-Casado on 'Praetorius'
28th Jul 2015
Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado talks to David about his new disc exploring the rarely-heard works of Jakob, Michael and Hieronymus Praetorius.
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American choral works from Stephen Layton and Polyphony
22nd Jul 2015
Stephen Layton talks to David about his recent disc of American choral music with Polyphony.
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José Serebrier on Dvorak
18th Jun 2015
David talks to the conductor about his recently-completed Dvorak set, out now on Warner Classics.
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Alina Ibragimova on Ysaÿe
12th Jun 2015
The violinist talks about the Belgian composer's sonatas for unaccompanied violin, which she has just recorded on Hyperion.
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Stile Antico celebrate their tenth birthday
7th Jun 2015
Katherine talks to two members of the early music ensemble about their first decade - and future plans…
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Mark Bebbington on the piano music of Arthur Bliss
28th May 2015
David talks to the champion of British piano repertoire about the latest volume in his Bliss series on Somm Records.
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Graham Ross on Shostakovich's chamber symphonies
20th May 2015
Conductor Graham Ross talks to David about his new project of Shostakovich chamber symphonies with the Dmitri Ensemble.
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Paul McCreesh on Handel’s 'L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato'
8th May 2015
David talks to the conductor about Handel's tripartite work, which weighs up the appeals of the hedonistic and the intellectual lifestyles in a kind of musical argument.
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Liszt, Reubke and Mendelssohn from Stephen Cleobury
5th May 2015
Stephen Cleobury, the long-serving Director of Music at King's College Cambridge, talks to David about his latest album - featuring three large-scale organ works.
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Philippe Jaroussky on Verlaine
1st May 2015
Katherine talks to the countertenor about his latest disc exploring settings of the great French symbolist poet.
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Harping on with Xavier de Maistre
29th Apr 2015
David talks to the harpist about his new disc, Moldau, featuring Slavic-flavoured arrangements and compositions for the harp.
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Dagmar Pecková's Sinful Women
22nd Apr 2015
The Czech dramatic mezzo talks about the gallery of vamps and viragos on her new disc, out now on Supraphon…
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Record Store Day - Chris on Radio 3!
18th Apr 2015
Chris joined Richard Morrison and Andrew McGregor to quite literally talk shop - and vinyl, and streaming, and downloads…
