Classical Interviews
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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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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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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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Xavier Sabata on Winterreise
20th Jan 2020
The Catalan countertenor talks to Katherine about taking 'a trip into the darkness of the mind' on his recording of Schubert's great song-cycle, released before Christmas on Berlin Classics.
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Paul Wee on Alkan
13th Jan 2020
Australian pianist and lawyer Paul Wee talks to David about his new recording of two monumental works by Alkan - the Symphony and Concerto for solo piano - and about his intense double career.
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Paul Wee (piano)
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Two new concertos by Gabriel Prokofiev
8th Jan 2020
Russian-British composer, DJ and record producer Gabriel Prokofiev talks to David about his recently-released double-bill of concertos, showcasing the saxophone and bass drum as solo instruments.
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Christmas with the Gesualdo Six
17th Dec 2019
David talks to the vocal ensemble's founder and director Owain Park about their new album of Christmas music old and new, featuring repertoire from medieval plainchant to contemporary composers such as Eleanor Daley.
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The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park
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Septura on Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker
12th Dec 2019
David talks to Septura's Matthew Knight and Simon Cox about their newly-released recording of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, arranged for brass septet and narrated by Derek Jacobi.
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James Hall on Elegy
11th Dec 2019
The young British countertenor talks to Katherine about his career to date and his recent album of duets by Purcell and Blow with Iestyn Davies and The King's Consort.
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Angela Gheorghiu on Plaisir d'amour
8th Dec 2019
On the 25th anniversary of the BBC broadcast of her landmark Traviata from Covent Garden, the Romanian soprano reminisces about the production with Katherine and discusses her new recording on Decca Classics.
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Tom Herring on The Waiting Sky
2nd Dec 2019
Sansara's Artistic Director Tom Herring talks to David about the choir's new recording of music for the Advent and Christmas seasons, featuring newly-commissioned works alongside Renaissance and Medieval motets.
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Jonathan Sells on Christmas in Leipzig
25th Nov 2019
Jonathan Sells, artistic director of the British early music ensemble Solomon's Knot, talks to David about their début recording, featuring three consecutive musical directors at the Leipzig Thomaskirche - Johann Schelle, Johann Kuhnau and, of course, Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Mishka Rushdie Momen on Variations
20th Nov 2019
Pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen talks to David about her debut recording, which draws together a variety of musical responses to a theme by Schumann and includes world premieres by Vijay Iyer and Nico Muhly.
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Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano)
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Margaret Bonds's The Ballad of the Brown King
18th Nov 2019
David talks to Malcolm J Merriweather and Ashley Jackson about their world premiere recording of a miniature oratorio by Margaret Bonds, exploring the legend of an African king journeying to visit the new-born Jesus.
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Christophe Rousset on Lully and Gounod
14th Nov 2019
The French harpsichordist and conductor talks to Katherine about recording Lully's 1677 opera Isis (out now on Aparté) and the original 1859 version of Gounod's Faust, released in September on Bru Zane.
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Kati Debretzeni on Bach's Violin Concertos
11th Nov 2019
Violinist Kati Debretzeni talks to David about her new recording of Bach violin concertos - originals and adaptations - with John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists.
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Laurie Stras on Brumel's Lamentations
5th Nov 2019
Musicologist and conductor Laurie Stras talks to David about her new album From Darkness into Light, which includes the first recording of Brumel's Lamentations - rediscovered by Stras after having been thought largely lost.
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Christoph Croisé on his Russian Album
4th Nov 2019
The award-winning young cellist talks to Katherine about his second album on Avie, featuring sonatas by Rachmaninov and Shostakovich.
