Latest News: Classical, Decca (label)
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Recording of the Week,
Chopin Études from Yunchan Lim 19th April 2024The South Korean pianist makes an impressive début with Chopin's Études, combining breathtaking agility with a real sense of musical narrative.
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Recording of the Week,
Christmas from Norway 8th December 2023The powerhouse Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen is on radiant, affecting form in a programme of Scandinavian carols, seasonal Lieder and a couple of Baroque chestnuts, with luxury support from the Norwegian Radio Orchestra under Christian Eggen.
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Interview,
Dominic Fyfe and Philip Siney on remastering Solti's Ring Cycle 5th October 2023In the wake of winning Gramophone's Spatial Audio Award for their painstaking work on Die Walküre, Decca's producer Dominic Fyfe and sound-engineer Philip Siney discuss how they went about showcasing Solti's landmark achievement in all its glory.
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Interview,
Isata Kanneh-Mason's Childhood Tales 31st May 2023The pianist discusses growing up in a 'house full of music' in Nottingham, and her new album of works by Mozart, Schumann, Debussy and Dohnányi (out now on Decca Classics).
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Interview,
Eric Whitacre at... 30! 26th April 2023Looking back over three decades of music, the world-renowned composer talks Whitman, musical hits and misses, and the correlation between a piece's length and the age of the composer's children...
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Recording of the Week,
Benjamin Grosvenor plays music by the Schumanns and Brahms 17th March 2023The British pianist is on typically eloquent, empathetic form in a programme which includes Robert's Kreisleriana and Blumenstück, Clara's variations on a theme from his Bunte Blätter, and their friend Brahms's autumnal Intermezzi Op. 117.
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Interview,
Christopher Tin on The Lost Birds 22nd January 2023The composer talks about his new work, calling attention to declining bird biodiversity through settings of Romantic poetry.
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Recording of the Week,
Freddie De Tommaso - Il Tenore 24th June 2022The young British-Italian tenor is on barnstorming form in a programme of scenes and arias from Tosca, Turandot, Madama Butterfly and Carmen, with equally impressive guest appearances from Lise Davidsen, Natalya Romaniw and Aigul Akhmetshina.
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Recording of the Week,
Ruth Slenczynska and a Life in Music 18th March 2022The pianist's return to the recording studio at the age of 97 offers us a bridge to the bygone era of composers and virtuosos who shaped her career.
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Recording of the Week,
Grieg from Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andsnes 7th January 2022The two Norwegians do their countryman proud in a programme which includes Haugtussa, Five Songs by Otto Benzon, and the Six Songs Op. 48.
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Interview,
Vanessa Benelli Mosell on Debussy 16th December 2021The Italian pianist and conductor talks to Katherine about her new recording of the Second Book of Préludes, why she now considers the composer to be 'the father of contemporary music', and plans for her parallel career on the podium...
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Recording of the Week,
Cecilia Bartoli - Unreleased 19th November 2021The Roman mezzo is in electrifying form in a programme of operatic and concert-arias by Haydn, Mysliveček, Mozart and Beethoven with the Kammerorchester Basel, recorded back in 2013.
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Recording of the Week,
MUSE from Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason 5th November 2021The siblings' contrasting musical personalities complement one another quite beautifully in sonatas by Barber and Rachmaninov, plus a well-chosen selection of songs by both composers.
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Recording of the Week,
Janine Jansen plays twelve Stradivari 10th September 2021Janine Jansen, accompanied by Antonio Pappano, explores the unique sounds of twelve different Stradivari violins in a unusual and fascinating recording project.
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Recording of the Week,
A double-bill of very different Baroque violin albums 30th July 2021Nicola Benedetti makes a successful first venture into early music with a programme of Geminiani and Vivaldi, and Théotime Langlois de Swarte teams up with William Christie to bring some French Baroque gems to light.
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Interview,
Isata Kanneh-Mason on Summertime 8th July 2021The pianist talks to Katherine about her new all-American album (released tomorrow on Decca Classics), which features music by Barber, Coleridge-Taylor, Beach, Gershwin and Copland.
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Video Interview,
Randall Goosby on Roots 1st July 2021The violinist talks to Katherine about his debut album on Decca, celebrating the influence which Black composers and performers have had on American music from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
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Interview,
Miloš Karadaglić on The Moon and the Forest 5th May 2021The Montenegrin guitarist talks to Katherine about recording two new concertos written especially for him: Joby Talbot's Ink Dark Moon and Howard Shore's The Forest.
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Recording of the Week,
Lise Davidsen in Beethoven, Wagner and Verdi 2nd April 2021The powerhouse Norwegian soprano is in expansive, radiant voice for Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder and arias from Fidelio, Otello, La forza del destino, Medea, and Cavalleria rusticana with Sir Mark Elder and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Recording of the Week,
Carnival of the Animals from the Kanneh-Masons 20th November 2020The seven siblings bring Saint-Saëns’s menagerie to teeming life, with Michael Morpurgo delivering his own new narration with avuncular charm.