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Biber's 1681 sonatas from Rachel Podger and Bojan Čičić
4th Jul 2025
Two sparkling performances of the Bohemian violinist-composer's most demanding and virtuosic sonatas, the 1681 Sonatae Violino Solo, come along at once!
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Pieter Wispelwey on his recording career for Channel Classics
7th Jan 2025
The cellist looks back on a fruitful two-decade collaboration with Amsterdam-based label Channel Classics.
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Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque: The Muses Restor’d
24th May 2024
An exciting exploration of a moment of transition in British music - the glory days of the consort tradition, the emerging Baroque, and beautiful folksong adaptations.
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The Muses Restor'd
Rachel Podger (violin), Brecon Baroque
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Rachel Podger and Chad Kelly on reimagining Bach's Goldberg Variations
4th Dec 2023
The violinist and composer share their thoughts on adapting Bach's immortal set of keyboard variations for Baroque instrumental ensemble.
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Rachel Podger on Tutta Sola
22nd Nov 2022
The violinist talks about her new album exploring the ancestry of Bach's works for unaccompanied violin, with works from Tartini, Matteis, Westhoff and Vilsmayr.
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Beethoven violin sonatas from Rachel Podger and Christopher Glynn
25th Mar 2022
Three snapshots from the beginning, middle and end of Beethoven's career trace his development of the violin sonata form from its Classical roots into new directions.
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A Mozart postscript from Rachel Podger
26th Mar 2021
Rachel Podger and Christopher Glynn bring to life a selection of musicologist Timothy Jones’s thoughtful completions of fragmentary Mozart works, offering a variety of plausible perspectives on what might have been.
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Jared Sacks on Channel Classics
19th Oct 2020
To mark the Dutch independent label's thirtieth anniversary, its founder reflects on how the story started and 'the joy of creating recordings'.
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Ning Feng on Virtuosismo
9th Oct 2019
The Chinese violinist shares his thoughts on balancing virtuosity and lyricism in two tremendously demanding concertos by Paganini and Vieuxtemps, out now on Channel Classics and one of Katherine's personal picks from the September releases.
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Rosanne Philippens on Insight
18th Jul 2019
The violinist discusses her recent album of solo works by Biber, Bach, Enescu and Ysaÿe, released on Channel Classics in late April and curated in response to audience feedback from a European recital tour.
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Rachel Podger on Bach's Cello Suites
9th May 2019
The violinist talks to David about her new album, which sees her perform JS Bach's popular cello suites on the violin.
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JS Bach: Cello Suites
Rachel Podger (violin)
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Rachel Podger plays the Bach Cello Suites
26th Apr 2019
The baroque violinist's own transcriptions of one of the pinnacles of the cello repertoire have an integrity and intelligence that's entirely convincing on its own terms, and the music never stops dancing.
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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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Vivaldi's Four Seasons from Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque
13th Apr 2018
The British violinist breathes new life into the most popular of baroque violin concerti with these vivid one-per-part accounts which exude wit and affection.
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Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni
Rachel Podger (violin) Brecon Baroque
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Thomas Hampson on Tides of Life
23rd Feb 2017
Katherine talks to the American baritone about his new disc of arrangements of lieder by Brahms, Schubert and Wolf.
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Thomas Hampson sings Lieder arranged for baritone and string orchestra
17th Feb 2017
Katherine listens to 'Tides of Life', featuring a selection of Romantic Lieder in beautiful new string arrangements.
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Iván Fischer conducts music by Tchaikovsky and Borodin
23rd Sep 2016
David listens to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra's powerful account of Tchaikovsky's tragic masterpiece.
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Florilegium at 25
11th Aug 2016
David talks Telemann and Bach with Florilegium's artistic director, Ashley Solomon.
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Mahler from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra
18th May 2015
David listens to Iván Fischer's new account of Mahler's elegiac Ninth Symphony, with the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
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Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
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Violin music by Bach and Vivaldi from Gil Shaham and Rachel Podger
9th Mar 2015
David listens to two new albums of violin music - Vivaldi concertos from Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque, and Bach solo sonatas and partitas from Gil Shaham.
