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Ophélie Gaillard on Cello Tango
10th Jun 2025
The French cellist discusses her new album of music by Piazzolla, Ginastera, Gardel and others (released on Aparté in April), falling in love with tango during a tour to Buenos Aires, and why the milonga is the perfect place to let off steam after a concert...
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François-Xavier Poizat on Ravel
9th Dec 2024
François-Xavier Poizat offers an insight into his love for Ravel, and his recordings of the composer's Complete Works with Piano (released earlier in November on Aparté). He also shares his admiration for Henle's painstaking work on their edition of Ravel's music.
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Roberto Alagna at 60
16th Oct 2024
The French-Sicilian tenor discusses his sixtieth-birthday album on Aparté, learning his craft in Paris cabaret clubs, being Michael Jackson's warm-up act, and why he regrets not getting started on Wagner earlier in his career...
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Mathieu Romano on Ensemble Aedes
18th Dec 2023
The French conductor talks about the choir which he founded as a twenty-one-year-old student in Paris, their mission to be 'specialists of nothing', and their close rapport with his mentor François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles.
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Maxim Emelyanychev on Mozart
9th Nov 2023
In the wake of the second instalment of his Mozart symphonies series with Il Pomo d'Oro, the Russian conductor and harpsichordist recounts how he fell under the composer's spell aged four - and was thrown in at the deep end to conduct the Overture to Le nozze di Figaro just eight years later...
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Cyrille Dubois on Fauré and treasures of the French Baroque
19th Oct 2023
Following his victory at the Gramophone Awards earlier this month, the French tenor discusses his winning recording of Fauré's complete songs with Tristan Raës - and shares some insights into Jouissons de nos beaux ans!, released in September on Aparté.
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Christophe Rousset on Les Talens Lyriques at 30
15th Dec 2022
As his ensemble celebrates its thirtieth birthday, the conductor and harpsichordist talks about turning people onto Lully, venturing towards Wagner, and 'opening doors' for the next generation of young musicians and music-lovers in France...
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Ophélie Gaillard on A Night in London
22nd Mar 2022
The French cellist talks to Katherine about her new album centring on three composer-cellists who made their mark on the English capital in the mid-eighteenth century: the Italians Nicola Porpora and Giovanni Battista Cirri, and the Scotsman James Oswald.
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Aleksandra Kurzak on Mozart
23rd Dec 2021
The Polish soprano talks to Katherine about drawing on her background as a violinist to direct the Morphing Chamber Orchestra on her new recording of opera arias with obbligato instruments.
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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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Xavier Sabata on L'Alessandro amante
30th May 2019
Ahead of his appearance as Ottone in Handel’s Agrippina at the Barbican tomorrow evening, the Catalan countertenor talks to Katherine about his recent album exploring baroque representations of Alexander the Great.
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Xavier Sabata on Catharsis
9th Oct 2017
Ahead of his Wigmore Hall debut tonight, the countertenor talks to Katherine about his career and the inspirations behind this evening's programme (which was released on Aparté earlier this year).
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Lully’s Bellérophon
11th Apr 2011
Christophe Rousset presides over a splendidly elegant account of Lully’s 1679 opera, with Cyril Auvity in the title-role, and Les Talens Lyriques on vigorous form.
