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Sonya Yoncheva on George
6th Feb 2025
The Bulgarian soprano discusses her musical tribute to George Sand (out tomorrow on Naïve), featuring extracts from the French novelist's correspondence interwoven with music by Chopin, Viardot, Liszt, Leoncavallo and Tosti.
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George
Sonya Yoncheva (soprano), Olga Zado (piano)
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Vivaldi's Dorilla in Tempe from Diego Fasolis and I Barocchisti
22nd Dec 2017
Katherine welcomes back Naïve's Vivaldi Edition, which returns today with an effervescent account of the "Red Priest"'s pastoral pasticcio from the 1730s.
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Susan Orlando on Naïve's Vivaldi Edition
19th Dec 2017
Katherine talks to one of the driving forces behind the project, which resumes this month with Dorilla in Tempe.
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Bach on the Marimba: Trio SR9
18th Feb 2016
David talks to Trio SR9 about their new collection of Bach arrangements for one, two and three marimbas.
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Sandrine Piau - Desperate Heroines
1st Oct 2014
Katherine talks to the French soprano about her new disc of Mozart arias, out yesterday on Naive.
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Franco Fagioli on Porpora
20th Sep 2014
Katherine talks to the virtuoso Argentine countertenor about his remarkable voice and his new album of arias by the great Neapolitan singing-teacher and composer Nicola Porpora.
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Joyce DiDonato sings bel canto arias
25th Aug 2014
Katherine listens to Joyce DiDonato's Stella di Napoli, which explores the Neapolitan school of bel canto opera arias.
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Rinaldo Alessandrini
21st Aug 2014
David asks Rinaldo Alessandrini about his new imagined Vespers for San Marco – and picks up some tips on eating like a Renaissance Venetian too!
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Monteverdi: Vespri solenni per la festa di San Marco
Monica Piccinini, Anna Simboli (sopranos), Andrea Arrivabene, Gianluca Ferrarini (altos), Luca Dordolo, Raffaele Giordani (tenors) & Matteo Bellotto, Salvo Vitale (bass) Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
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Chad Hoopes plays Adams and Mendelssohn
15th May 2014
Young American violinist Chad Hoopes talks to David about his latest disc of violin concerti by Mendelssohn and Adams.
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Presto Personal Favourites from 2013
23rd Dec 2013
Schubert from the Pavel Haas Quartet, Pierre-Louis Dietsch’s opera on The Flying Dutchman, two Turnage premieres, and masses by Cipriano de Rore.
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L’Olimpiade: The Opera
23rd Jul 2012
The Venice Baroque Orchestra and a fine line-up of singers present a pasticcio setting of a libretto by Metastasio, with contributions from composers including Caldara, Vivaldi, Galuppi, Hasse and Paisiello.
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Julia Lezhneva sings Rossini
18th Apr 2011
Katherine enjoys a hugely promising debut solo album from the Russian soprano (who was just nineteen when the recording was made), including arias from La cenerentola, La donna del lago and Guillaume Tell with Marc Minkowski and Sinfonia Varsovia.
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Vivaldi Operas - Ottone in Villa and Ercole
6th Dec 2010
Ercole sul Termodonte (starring Joyce DiDonato, Diana Damrau and Rolando Villazón) from Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante, and Ottone in Villa (with Sonia Prina in the title-role) from Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini.
