Classical Podcasts
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Episode 38: Belle de nuit – Chatting to Emmanuel Despax about 'Après un rêve'
8th Jul 2023
The pianist discusses his new album, weaving together a nocturnal theme, a deeply personal poetic connection, and the French piano repertoire of the 'belle époque'.
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Episode 37: Brahms In The Time Machine – Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem with Lionel Meunier
24th Jun 2023
Founder and director of early music ensemble Vox Luminis talks about his hunt for Baroque-era precursors to Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem.
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Episode 36: I've Started, So I'll Finish – A Return to Mozart with Robert Levin
22nd Apr 2023
Pianist, conductor, musicologist and Mozart reconstructionist Robert Levin talks about the resumption of his complete survey of Mozart's works for keyboard and orchestra.
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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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Episode 34: Golden Oldies - The Brodsky Quartet at 50
26th Mar 2023
Katherine is joined by cellist Jacqueline Thomas and viola-player Paul Cassidy for a whistle-stop tour through the quartet's first fifty years - including their landmark Shostakovich cycle in the 1990s and collaborations with Issey Miyake, Sting, Elvis Costello & Sir Paul McCartney
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Episode 33: Four with Scores - Quartet with Leah Broad
5th Mar 2023
Paul is guided through the lives, times and music of four extraordinary female composers by the author of a new music biography 'Quartet', Dr Leah Broad.
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Episode 32: Music for Albion - Vaughan Williams with John Francis
16th Oct 2022
John Francis from the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society joins Paul to guide him through the life and music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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Episode 31: Mysticism, Modernism and Music - Scriabin with Marina Frolova-Walker
9th Oct 2022
Paul is joined by Cambridge Russian music Professor Marina Frolova-Walker to discuss 150 years of Alexander Scriabin, from his beginnings as a frustrated virtuoso to his explorations in radical mysticism.
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Episode 30: Music from the Golden Age of Hollywood with John Wilson
15th Sep 2022
James is joined by conductor John Wilson for a look back at some of his recordings with Sinfonia of London, followed by an in-depth chat about their latest album of Golden Age film music, Hollywood Soundstage.
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Episode 29: Eine kleine Havanamusik with Sarah Willis
5th Sep 2022
Horn-player Sarah Willis discusses the second of her Cuban-inspired albums, and the connections between Mozart and Latin American dance.
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Episode 28: Karel Ančerl Live with Rob Cowan and Matouš Vlčinský
27th Feb 2022
The live recordings by the great Czech conductor Karel Ančerl, and Bohemian musical culture are explored by Rob Cowan and Matouš Vlčinský from Supraphon records.
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Episode 27: A Life in Notes - The Art of Music Biography
13th Feb 2022
This week three eminent music biographers join Paul for a round-table discussion on the art of writing a music biography.
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Episode 26: On the Fiddle with Charlotte Gardner
12th Dec 2021
This week we are joined by writer Charlotte Gardner to discuss changing styles of violin-playing over the past hundred years.
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Episode 25: The Story of Presto Music with Chris O'Reilly
14th Nov 2021
To celebrate Presto Music's double anniversary we invited our very own Chris O'Reilly onto the show to talk about how it grew from a small CD shop in Leamington Spa to become one of the global leaders in online music retail.
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Episode 24: On Song with The Hermes Experiment
31st Oct 2021
Paul meets the members of The Hermes Experiment, one of the UK's most innovative contemporary music groups, in the week that their second album is released on Delphian Records.
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Episode 23: Wilhelm Furtwängler with Rob Cowan & David Hurwitz
17th Oct 2021
Rob Cowan and David Hurwitz join Paul to discuss the merits of Warner's recent 55 disc boxset devoted to the recordings of the iconic German conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler.
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Episode 22: Musicological Musings with Daniel Elphick
4th Oct 2021
Musicologists - who are they, what do they want, and who keeps feeding 'em? Paul gets to the nub of all of these questions with the help of Daniel Elphick.
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Episode 21: A Great Dane - Andrew Mellor on Carl Nielsen
12th Sep 2021
Andrew Mellor returns to the show to discuss the music of Carl Nielsen, one of the twentieth century's most fascinating symphonists.
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Episode 20: Fresh Air in the Pipes - Organ Music with Anna Lapwood
29th Aug 2021
This week's guest is one of Britain's most talented young organists, Anna Lapwood, giving us a potted history of the organ's history, and a tour of her eclectic new record, Images.
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Episode 19: Classical Comedy with Rainer Hersch
4th Jul 2021
Comedian Rainer Hersch joins Paul for a potted history of the art of cocking a snook at the strait-laced world of classical music.
