Classical Interviews
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Owain Park on English Motets
11th Jun 2018
Conductor Owain Park talks to David about his recent album of English Tudor gems with the Gesualdo Six.
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Alec Frank-Gemmill on Before Mozart
7th Jun 2018
Horn player Alec Frank-Gemmill talks to David about his recent album exploring some gems from the early horn repertoire.
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Federico Colli on Domenico Scarlatti
5th Jun 2018
The Italian pianist talks to Katherine about The Power of Illusion, the first instalment of his projected survey of the Neapolitan composer's keyboard sonatas.
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Paweł Łukaszewski on Daylight Declines
28th May 2018
The eminent Polish composer talks to David about Tenebrae's forthcoming album featuring a selection of his sacred choral compositions.
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard on Messiaen's birds
24th May 2018
The French pianist talks to Katherine about his relationship with Catalogue d'oiseaux, which he recently recorded for Pentatone.
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Eldbjørg Hemsing on Borgström's Violin Concerto
14th May 2018
The Norwegian violinist talks to Katherine about recording a little-known work by her compatriot Hjalmar Borgström (1864-1925), a music-critic and part-time composer whose influences included Busoni and Wagner.
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Pavel Kolesnikov on Couperin
8th May 2018
The Russian pianist talks to Katherine about recording Dances from the Bauyn Manuscript.
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Andreas Haefliger on Perspectives
3rd May 2018
The German-born Swiss pianist talks to Katherine about his long-term project (now on its seventh instalment) exploring connections between Beethoven's piano sonatas and other works.
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Ian Page on Mozart in London
23rd Apr 2018
The conductor talks to Katherine about his new recording exploring the music which the young composer is likely to have encountered on his visit to the city in the mid-1760s.
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Rachel Podger on The Four Seasons
21st Apr 2018
The violinist, whose previous recordings of Vivaldi have won widespread critical acclaim, talks to Katherine about taking on the 'Red Priest''s most popular work.
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Edward Gardner on Walton
17th Apr 2018
The conductor talks to David about the latest instalment in his series of Walton recordings on Chandos - featuring James Ehnes setting aside his violin in favour of the viola for Walton's Viola Concerto.
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Masaaki Suzuki on Beethoven's Missa solemnis
12th Apr 2018
The Japanese conductor and early-music expert talks to David about his recent recording of Beethoven's mighty Missa Solemnis with the Bach Collegium Japan.
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Hugo Ticciati on White Light
12th Apr 2018
The violinist talks to Katherine about the genesis of his ensemble O/Modernt and their debut recording, featuring music from Arvo Pärt to the Beatles.
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Introducing Thomas Ebenstein
9th Apr 2018
The Austrian tenor talks to Katherine about his debut recording of Korngold, Schoenberg, Zemlinsky and Strauss, out now on Capriccio.
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Sakari Oramo on Florent Schmitt
26th Mar 2018
The conductor talks to Katherine about recording the Alsatian composer's Symphony No. 2 and Antoine et Cléopâtre on Chandos with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
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Robin Ticciati on Brahms's Symphonies
21st Mar 2018
The conductor talks to Katherine about his final recording as Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, out this Friday on Linn Records.
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Max Cencic on Porpora
14th Mar 2018
The countertenor talks to Katherine about his two recent recordings paying homage to the Neapolitan singing-teacher and composer, the anniversary of whose death fell on 2nd March.
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Liza Ferschtman on Bernstein and Korngold
6th Mar 2018
The Dutch violinist talks to Katherine about her new recording of two American works for violin and orchestra, out on Challenge Classics later this month.
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Kirill Gerstein on The Gershwin Moment
1st Mar 2018
The pianist talks to Katherine about his new album, which includes the jazz-band version of Rhapsody in Blue, the Piano Concerto in F, and song transcriptions by Earl Wild.
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Gautier Capuçon on Intuition
21st Feb 2018
The French cellist talks to Katherine about his new album of music by Massenet, Saint-Saëns, Piazzolla, Sollima and more.
