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HK Gruber on Kurt Weill and more
9th Jun 2026
The Austrian composer, conductor and chansonnier discusses his recent album Dancing on a Volcano (made on tour with Ensemble Modern for the ensemble’s own label) and his own music, including the Piano Concerto written for Emmanuel Ax.
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Presto Presents... Helen Charlston and Sholto Kynoch
27th May 2026
In the latest episode of Presto Presents, mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston and pianist Sholto Kynoch perform and discuss music from their new album A Poet's Love, inspired by Schumann's Dichterliebe.
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Clare Hammond on Tippett, Britten and Walton
14th Oct 2025
British pianist Clare Hammond spoke to Matthew Ash about her new album dedicated to the music of Tippett, Britten and Walton, and her tireless work to provide musical opportunities and exposure for everyone, irrespective of background, race or gender.
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Yevgeny Sudbin plays Scriabin
9th May 2025
Yevgeny Sudbin returns to the music of Scriabin in a new album of nicely selected solo piano works which demonstrate the variety of the composer's writing, and the pianist's open and incisive approach to understanding and expressing each piece on its own terms.
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Can Çakmur on Schubert
18th Jan 2024
Ahead of his gala concert launching the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition at Kings Place tomorrow, the Turkish pianist discusses his Schubert + project on BIS, his friendship with Fazıl Say, and why he's 'super-unpicky' about the instruments he plays in concert...
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Carolyn Sampson reflects on her first hundred recordings
6th Dec 2023
Ahead of her recital with Joseph Middleton at Wigmore Hall tonight, the soprano discusses her 100th album but I like to sing... - and reflects on some of the highlights of her recording career to date...
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Choral works by the late Kaija Saariaho
7th Jul 2023
The Helsinki Chamber Choir under Nils Schweckendiek perform choral music by Saariaho that explores a wide range of subjects – from atmospheric invocations of night and Roman mythology to the seasons of the year and spacefaring science fiction.
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Missy Mazzoli on Dark with Excessive Bright
16th May 2023
In the wake of the first full-length album of her orchestral music on BIS, the American composer talks about the writers and musicians who've inspired her work...
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Clare Hammond on the piano études of Hélène de Montgeroult
23rd Nov 2022
The pianist talks about her new album focusing on the revolutionary piano studies of Hélène de Montgeroult - anticipating many of the ideas that would be adopted by later Romantic composers.
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Hélène de Montgeroult: Études
Clare Hammond (piano)
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Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch from Carolyn Sampson, Allan Clayton and Joseph Middleton
5th Aug 2022
All three artists are wonderfully attuned to the wit and warmth of Wolf's set of 46 delectable miniatures, with Middleton's characterful postludes proving in a joy in themselves...
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Ronald Brautigam performs piano concertos by Johann Wilhelm Wilms
1st Jul 2022
Fortepianist Ronald Brautigam is joined by the Kölner Akademie and conductor Michael Alexander Willens for the first of two volumes of concertos by the composer once described as "the Dutch Beethoven".
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Johan Dalene performs violin concertos by Nielsen & Sibelius
1st Apr 2022
The Swedish violinist offers a characterful performance of Sibelius's concerto alongside a virtuosic account of the piece that swept him to victory at the 2019 Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition.
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Julian Azkoul on Renewal
27th Jan 2022
The artistic director of United Strings of Europe talks to Katherine about the ensemble's genesis and future plans, and their new recording of works by Caroline Shaw, Joanna Marsh, Osvaldo Golijov and Felix Mendelssohn (out now on BIS).
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Andrew Litton on Prokofiev
30th Sep 2021
The American conductor talks to Katherine about his recordings of the complete Prokofiev symphonies with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, released as a box-set tomorrow on BIS.
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James Newby on I Wonder as I Wander
9th Mar 2021
The young British baritone talks to Katherine about his career to date, and his debut recording of songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler and Britten on BIS.
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Osmo Vänskä conducts Mahler's Tenth Symphony
5th Mar 2021
The Minnesota Orchestra and their Music Director give a tumultuous, emotional account of Mahler's final, unfinished symphony, in the performing version by Deryck Cooke.
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Mahler: Symphony No. 10
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
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Clare Hammond on Variations
3rd Mar 2021
The pianist talks about her new album, that sees her draw together numerous different sets of variations from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Variations
Clare Hammond (piano)
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Johan Dalene on Nordic Rhapsody
2nd Mar 2021
The Swedish violinist talks about his new album of music from Northern Europe, with pianist Christian Ihle Hadland.
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Christian Immler on Hans Gál
10th Feb 2021
The German bass-baritone talks to Katherine about Hidden Treasures (out now on BIS), featuring world premiere recordings of twenty-six songs which the Austrian-born composer 'laid aside'.
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Bertrand Chamayou and Alexandre Kantorow
16th Oct 2020
Two contrasting recitals from award-winning French pianists - one fuelled by melatonin, the other by adrenaline.
