Classical Interviews
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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.
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Choral Works by Owain Park
20th Nov 2018
The young singer, conductor and composer talks to David about his choral works as recently recorded on Hyperion by Stephen Layton and The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge.
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Rory McCleery on Pater Peccavi
15th Nov 2018
The Marian Consort's conductor talks to David about his new recording exploring a fascinating and unique corner of Iberia's musical history.
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Jaap van Zweden on the Hong Kong Philharmonic's Ring Cycle
13th Nov 2018
As the final instalment of the cycle on Naxos is released, the conductor talks to Katherine about the project's origins, and the challenges and rewards of tackling Wagner's epic with an orchestra whose primary home is the concert-hall rather than the opera-house.
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Gun-Brit Barkmin (Brünnhilde), Daniel Brenna (Siegfried), Eric Halfvarson (Hagen), Shenyang (Gunther), Amanda Majeski (Gutrune), Peter Kálmán (Alberich), Michelle DeYoung (Waltraute) Hong Kong Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden
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Dame Sarah Connolly on A Walk with Ivor Gurney
8th Nov 2018
The great English mezzo talks to David about her new album exploring the music and poetry of the wartime composer Ivor Gurney, with Tenebrae and the Aurora Orchestra.
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Clemens Trautmann on DG120
6th Nov 2018
Katherine talks to the President of Deutsche Grammophon about his career and the label's 120th anniversary celebrations, including this evening's gala concert in Berlin, which is being streamed live at 8pm CET.
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Thibaut Garcia on Bach Inspirations
1st Nov 2018
The French guitarist talks to Katherine about his new album of Bach-influenced works by Villa-Lobos, Tansman, Barrios Mangoré and Gounod - as well as transcriptions of the composer's own Chaconne and two of his best-known chorales.
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BACH 333 unboxed
25th Oct 2018
Chris and Katherine explore Deutsche Grammophon's mammoth new Bach Edition, produced in collaboration with Decca Classics and the Leipzig Bach Archive and running to over 280 hours of music.
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Eric Lu on The Leeds International Piano Competition
22nd Oct 2018
The 20-year-old Chinese-American pianist talks to David about his victory last month and his plans for the immediate future.
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Bryn Terfel on Dreams and Songs
18th Oct 2018
Katherine speaks to the great Welsh bass-baritone about his new album, which includes duets with Dame Emma Thompson, Joseph Calleja and Rob Brydon as well as the world premiere recording of Karl Jenkins's The Shepherd Poet of Passchendaele.
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Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
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The Calidore Quartet on 'Resilience'
11th Oct 2018
The members of the young American string quartet talk to David about their début recording, which features four quartets from composers experiencing a variety of personal and political traumas.
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Calidore String Quartet
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Stuart Skelton on Wagner
4th Oct 2018
The Australian tenor (currently singing Siegmund in the Royal Opera House's Ring Cycle) talks to Katherine about his career as a Wagnerian and his debut solo recording Shining Knight, recently released on ABC Classics.
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Sean Shibe on softLOUD
1st Oct 2018
Katherine talks to the award-winning young guitarist about his confrontational new album, which mixes seventeenth-century Scottish lute music with works by Steve Reich, Julia Wolfe and David Lang.
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Albina Shagimuratova and Daniela Barcellona on Semiramide
26th Sep 2018
Katherine talks to the Russian soprano and Italian mezzo who star as mother and estranged son on Sir Mark Elder's new, uncut recording of Rossini's great opera seria.
