Classical Interviews
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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.
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Daniel Lozakovich on Beethoven
16th Dec 2020
The violinist talks about his new recording of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, and discusses some of the influences on himself as a musician.
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Bertrand Chamayou on Good Night!
9th Dec 2020
The French pianist talks to Katherine about his beguiling collection of lullabies by composers including Lyapunov, Liszt, Alkan and Mel Bonis, released in October on Erato.
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Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
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Gunnar Idenstam on Metal Angel
6th Dec 2020
The Swedish concert organist talks about his new album, blending the French Romantic sound-world with influences from Scandinavian symphonic metal.
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David Temple on seasonal Britten
1st Dec 2020
The conductor talks about his new recording of Britten's A Ceremony of Carols and Saint Nicolas with Crouch End Festival Chorus, Mark Le Brocq and the BBC Concert Orchestra.
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Avi Avital on The Art of the Mandolin
23rd Nov 2020
The Israeli mandolinist talks about his latest album, in which he swaps his usual diet of transcriptions for a programme of works written specifically for the mandolin.
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Elīna Garanča on Schumann and Brahms
18th Nov 2020
The Latvian mezzo talks to Katherine about her first lieder recording (released earlier this month on Deutsche Grammophon, with Malcolm Martineau), and preparing to make her Wagner debut as Kundry...
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Mark Simpson on Mozart and 'Geysir'
16th Nov 2020
The British composer and clarinettist talks about his exciting new work Geysir, conceived as a musical response to Mozart's Gran Partita.
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Mark Simpson, Fraser Langton (clarinet), Nicholas Daniel, Emma Fielding (oboe), Amy Harman, Dom Tyler (bassoon), Oliver Pashley, Ausias Garrigos Morant (basset horns), Ben Goldscheider, Angela Barnes, James Pillai, Fabian van de Geest (horn), David Stark (double bass)
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Lawrence Brownlee on Rossini
13th Nov 2020
The American tenor talks to Katherine about today's Recording of the Week Amici e Rivali, which sees him exploring friendship and rivalry in Rossini's Neapolitan operas with his compatriot Michael Spyres.
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The Calidore String Quartet on Babel
10th Nov 2020
The New York-based Calidore String Quartet talk about their latest album, which weaves together themes of communication and separation.
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John Andrews on The Dancing Master
5th Nov 2020
The British conductor talks to Katherine about recording Malcolm Arnold's one-act comic opera, written at high speed for TV in the early 1950s but rejected by the BBC for being 'too bawdy'...
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Fatma Said on El Nour
29th Oct 2020
The Egyptian soprano talks to Katherine about her debut solo album on Warner Classics, featuring songs by Egyptian, French and Spanish composers.
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Nathan Meltzer on Roman Totenberg and a lost-and-found violin
27th Oct 2020
The US violinist talks about his debut album, a fascinating recital themed around the history of one unique instrument and its former owner.
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Nathan Meltzer (violin), Rohan de Silva (piano)
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Vaughan Williams's folksong arrangements
22nd Oct 2020
Baritone Roderick Williams, pianist William Vann, and researcher John Francis discuss the first instalment in a new series of recordings, featuring previously unheard folksong arrangements by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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Antonio Pappano on Donizetti's Queens
21st Oct 2020
The conductor talks to Katherine about recording the final scenes of Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena and Roberto Devereux with Diana Damrau and the Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for Warner Classics.
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Jared Sacks on Channel Classics
19th Oct 2020
To mark the Dutch independent label's thirtieth anniversary, its founder reflects on how the story started and 'the joy of creating recordings'.
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Anna Lapwood on All Things Are Quite Silent
14th Oct 2020
The director of music at Pembroke College Cambridge talks about the debut album from the college's adult choir and recently-formed girls' choir, featuring an eclectic mix of sacred and secular repertoire.
