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Orchestral Works by Dorothy Howell
8th Mar 2024
Rebecca Miller conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in world premiere recordings of the Humoresque, The Rock, the Three Divertissements and Koong Shee plus a terrific account of Lamia - the Keats-inspired tone-poem which made the 21-year-old composer an overnight success after its Proms premiere in 1919.
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Julie Cooper on Oculus
13th Feb 2024
The composer talks about her second album of chamber music on Signum Records, inspired by ideas of colour through history and drawing on her extensive experience as a composer for film and television.
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Julie Cooper: Oculus
Joby Burgess (percussion), Camilla Pay, Julie Cooper, Joshua Davidson, Grace Davidson (soprano), Eliza Marshall, Rebeca Omordia (piano), Anna Hale, Cara Berridge, Her Ensemble, Oculus Ensemble, Jessica Cottis, Simon Hale, Clio Gould
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Episode 44: Take me to your Lieder - Schubert in English with Roderick Williams, Rowan Pierce and Christopher Glynn
18th Nov 2023
Baritone, soprano and pianist offer their perspectives on the latest instalment in Signum Classics's series, which features Jeremy Sams's translations of Schubert Lieder.
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The King's Singers on Wonderland
16th Nov 2023
Patrick Dunachie and Jonathan Howard talk about the King's Singers' new album - including an unexpected change of direction for Joe Hisaishi and some revealing observations about the group's members...!
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Joseph Middleton on Mahler
7th Aug 2023
The pianist discusses his mission to record all of Mahler's songs in the versions for voice and piano (which launched at the end of last month on Signum Classics) and recounts how 'there was never a grand plan for this to be my job'...
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Cecilia McDowall on her Da Vinci Requiem and Seventy Degrees below Zero
24th May 2023
The composer discusses two of her new large-scale choral works, her approaches to matching words to music, and her aims as a contemporary composer.
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Episode 35: Tom & Will (& Jimmy & Roddy) – Tudor Anniversaries with Fretwork and The King's Singers
2nd Apr 2023
Patrick Dunachie of The King's Singers and Richard Boothby of Fretwork talk about the madrigals and instrumental music of two Tudor titans.
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The Calidore String Quartet record late Beethoven
15th Mar 2023
Violinist Ryan Meehan talks about the quartet's new album, which builds on their earlier more exploratory releases with an all-Beethoven programme.
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Mary Bevan on Visions Illuminées
28th Feb 2023
The British soprano discusses her new album with 12 Ensemble, the Ruisi Quartet and Joseph Middleton on Signum, featuring works by composers including Britten, Chausson, Holmès, and Ravel & Debussy (via Robin Holloway).
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Amanda Lee Falkenberg and Nicole Stott on the Moons Symphony
31st Oct 2022
The composer and astronaut talk about their collaboration on an inspiring new work depicting seven of the Solar System's moons, and about art's role in communicating the wonders of scientific discovery.
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Joby Burgess on A Percussionist's Songbook
10th Oct 2022
The percussionist talks about his new album of solo commissions from contemporary composers, and about his lifelong relationship with the marimba.
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Andrew Nethsingha on The Psalms
19th Sep 2022
The director of music at St John's College Cambridge talks about his new album of psalms, and looks ahead to his upcoming move to Westminster Abbey.
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Randall Scotting on Senesino
31st Aug 2022
The American countertenor discusses his new album The Crown, exploring the star castrato's legacy beyond the Handel roles for which he is best known today...
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Anna Lapwood on Celestial Dawn
25th Jul 2022
The organist and conductor discusses her new recording with The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir, featuring music by composers including Nadia & Lili Boulanger, Kristina Arakelyan, Wayne Marshall and John Dankworth.
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Berg, Webern and Schoenberg from the Heath Quartet
15th Jul 2022
The UK-based string quartet bring luminous clarity and beauty to three transitional works by the Second Viennese School, with soprano Carolyn Sampson joining them for Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2.
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Locke consort works from Fretwork
14th Jan 2022
The acclaimed consort mark the 400th anniversary of Matthew Locke's birth with a selection of his consort works from the twilight of the English consort tradition.
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Christmas Recordings from Fretwork and Christiane Karg
3rd Dec 2021
The viol consort is joined by mezzo Helen Charlston for an Elizabethan Christmas, whilst Karg and her regular recital partner Gerold Huber offer a beautifully-plotted programme of Lieder and mélodies with a seasonal theme.
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Ian Page on Arne's Artaxerxes
26th May 2021
The British conductor talks to Katherine about his 2010 recording of Thomas Arne's English-language opera seria about forbidden love and political skulduggery in Ancient Persia, re-released earlier this month on Signum.
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Peter Cigleris on British Clarinet Concertos
25th Mar 2021
Clarinettist Peter Cigleris talks about his new album on Signum, which sees him revive not one but four forgotten clarinet concertos from early twentieth-century Britain.
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Emmanuel Despax on Spira, Spera
25th Feb 2021
The pianist talks about his new album of Bach transcriptions, inspired in part by his personal reaction to the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of 2019.
