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Leif Ove Andsnes on Schubert for Four Hands
20th Jan 2026
The Norwegian pianist discusses sharing a keyboard with his friend Bertrand Chamayou for a mesmerising programme of late Schubert, which began life at Andsnes's chamber music festival in the fjords a decade ago.
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Mendelssohn and Enescu Octets from the Ébène and Belcea Quartets
9th Jan 2026
String octets from Mendelssohn and Enescu - both in their teens at the time of composition - show the two composers’ genius already in full flower. The Ébène and Belcea quartets give it their all and the results are spectacular.
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Enescu & Mendelssohn: Octets
Quatuor Ébène, Belcea Quartet
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Philippe Jaroussky celebrates 25 years in the profession
31st Dec 2025
The French countertenor reflects on the changes he's seen during his first quarter-century in the business, his recent album of Italian secular cantatas, his blossoming parallel career as a conductor, and why he's a firm believer that 'the grass is not always greener in another field'.
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Gelosia!
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor/director), Artaserse
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Thomas Dunford and Lea Desandre on Songs of Passion
23rd Dec 2025
The lutenist and mezzo discuss their Presto Award-winning album of music by Dowland and Purcell, their own first encounters with both composers as teenagers, and some of the friends and family-members who played a part in the project.
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Jean Rondeau on Louis Couperin
17th Dec 2025
The French harpsichordist talks about his massive project, released in November, to record the complete works of the founder of the Couperin dynasty.
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David Fray on Baroque Encores and the Offrande Musicale festival
8th Dec 2025
The pianist talks about his new album of Baroque keyboard works performed on the piano, his inspirations, and the music festival he runs in his home region in the south-west of France.
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Baroque Encores
David Fray (piano)
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Thibaut Garcia on adapting and performing Bach's Goldberg Variations with Antoine Morinière
24th Nov 2025
A unique new twist on Bach's Goldberg Variations sees these two guitarists rehearse, play - and even think - as one.
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Gelosia from Philippe Jaroussky and Artaserse
24th Oct 2025
The French countertenor does battle with the green-eyed monster in a programme of secular Italian cantatas, featuring two popular examples by Handel and Vivaldi, one relative rarity by Alessandro Scarlatti, and world premiere recordings of works by Porpora and Galuppi.
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Purcell's Dido and Aeneas from Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d'Oro
29th Aug 2025
Nearly a decade after singing Didon and Énée in Berlioz's Les Troyens, Joyce DiDonato and Michael Spyres are reunited as the star-crossed lovers in Purcell's much more economical treatment of the same story, with a luxury supporting cast and colourful, imaginative playing from the Italian period instrument ensemble.
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Ravel Fragments from Bertrand Chamayou
14th Mar 2025
Pianist Bertrand Chamayou presents a selection of homages to, and transcriptions of, Ravel's music to mark the composer's 150th birthday.
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Bertrand Chamayou on Ravel Fragments
6th Mar 2025
Bertrand Chamayou talks about his new album, open-minded creativity, and a piano concerto you may not have come across before.
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Terra Mater from Christina Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata
31st Jan 2025
The experimental early music ensemble is joined by Swedish mezzo (and climate-change activist) Malena Ernman for an eclectic programme celebrating Mother Earth, taking in pictorial Baroque sonatas, English folksongs and dances, early Italian opera and a soupçon of jazz...
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Christina Pluhar on Terra Mater
23rd Jan 2025
The director of L'Arpeggiata discusses the early music ensemble's 25th-birthday plans and their new album with Swedish mezzo Malena Ernman (released on Erato next Friday) which celebrates the natural world.
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Hasse's Serpentes Ignei in Deserto from Thibault Noally and Les Accents
22nd Nov 2024
Philippe Jaroussky (as Moses) leads a cast which includes Julia Lezhneva, Jakub Józef Orliński and Bruno de Sá in Hasse's Old Testament oratorio, written for the girls of the Ospedale degli Incurabili in Venice when he was enjoying his first flush of fame as an opera-composer.
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Michael Spyres on In The Shadows
25th Sep 2024
Ahead of next week's Gramophone Awards and International Opera Awards, the baritenor discusses his shortlisted album (released on Erato in March) exploring early Wagner and the composers who influenced his writing.
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Huw Montague Rendall on Contemplation
18th Sep 2024
The British baritone discusses his debut album on Erato (released earlier this month), getting under the skin of Count Almaviva in the recent revival of David McVicar's production of Le nozze di Figaro at Covent Garden, and the joys of sharing a profession with his parents...
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Jakub Józef Orliński on Gluck's Orfeo
4th Jul 2024
The Polish countertenor discusses recording 'one of the signature-roles' for his voice-type, how going to hell and back in two contrasting productions of the opera informed his interpretation in the studio, and why acting as co-artistic director on the recording taught him to 'read the room'...
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Christina Pluhar on Wonder Women
27th May 2024
The Austrian early instrumentalist and conductor talks about her new album of works by Renaissance women composers, and focusing on female perspectives.
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Four Hands - Alexandre Tharaud & Friends
10th May 2024
The French pianist is joined by an array of distinguished guests (including Beatrice Rana, Bertrand Chamayou, Philippe Jaroussky & Víkingur Ólafsson) for a programme ranging from Bach to Piazzolla.
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In The Shadows with Michael Spyres
1st Mar 2024
The American singer teams up with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset to explore some of the operas which influenced Wagner - including works by Méhul, Beethoven, Meyerbeer and Spontini.
