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Licia Albanese (1909-2014)
17th Aug 2014
The Italian-American soprano, widely regarded as the finest Madam Butterfly of the twentieth century, has died aged over 100.
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Licia Albanese (Butterfly), Rosalind Elias (Suzuki), Madelaine Chambers (Kate Pinkerton), Daniele Barioni (Pinkerton), John Brownlee (Sharpless), Alessio de Paolis (Goro), George Cehanovsky (Yamadori) & Osie Hawkins (Bonzo) Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Dimitri Mitropoulos
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Benjamin Grosvenor - a postscript
13th Aug 2014
Following on from Monday's newsletter, I caught up with Benjamin over email to find out more about his new disc Dances - and whether or not he has two left feet…
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Benjamin Grosvenor - Dances
11th Aug 2014
Young British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor sets Katherine's toes tapping with his new disc, Dances.
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Cecilia Bartoli goes Russian
5th Aug 2014
New album will explore music written for three tsarinas in eighteenth-century St Petersburg.
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Russian Orchestral Music from the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic
4th Aug 2014
Katherine enjoys an unusual take on Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade from Sascha Goetzel and the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic.
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Music to commemorate the First World War
28th Jul 2014
Katherine listens to Anna Prohaska's Behind the Lines, a collection of songs spanning a wide historical period, but focusing primarily on the years of the First World War.
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Carlo Bergonzi (1924-2014)
27th Jul 2014
Katherine pays tribute to the great Italian tenor, who died yesterday.
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Judith Weir's The Vanishing Bridegroom
24th Jul 2014
Katherine talks to the composer (recently named Master of the Queen's Music) about her 1990 opera based on Scottish folklore, released this month on NMC Records.
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Hasse's Il Siroe Re di Persia
23rd Jul 2014
Star countertenors Max Cencic and Franco Fagioli go head-to-head in the first-ever recording of Johann Adolf Hasse's 1733 opera.
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Kasper Holten's Don Giovanni
16th Jul 2014
A provocative production of Mozart's "rake's progress" from the director of the Royal Opera House is to be released on DVD in the autumn.
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Joyce DiDonato - Stella di Napoli
5th Jul 2014
The American mezzo explores the highways and byways of Neapolitan bel canto for her next project…
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
4th Jul 2014
In celebration of the 300th anniversary of Gluck's birth on Tuesday, Katherine rounds up some favourite recordings of his operas on CD and DVD.
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Daniel Behle on Gluck's tenors
2nd Jul 2014
To mark the tercentenary of Gluck's birth today, Katherine talks to the German lyric tenor about his new disc exploring the composer's writing for high male voice.
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Gaetano Donizetti
27th Jun 2014
Katherine has some difficult decisions to make about favourite recordings of operas by Gaetano Donizetti.
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Anna Bonitatibus on Semiramide
25th Jun 2014
The Italian coloratura mezzo talks to Katherine about Semiramide, the enigmatic Assyrian queen around whom her latest recording project is based.
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Vladimir Jurowski conducts music by Zemlinsky
23rd Jun 2014
Katherine listens to a stormy, passionate tragedy by the late Romantic composer Alexander Zemlinsky, with Vladimir Jurowski conducting the LPO.
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Callas Remastered
18th Jun 2014
Warner 'photoshop' La Divina's complete studio recordings for reissue in a beautiful boxed set later this year…
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Marie Fel - Rameau's Muse
11th Jun 2014
Carolyn Sampson on her new disc of French baroque music with Ex Cathedra.
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Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Bernstein's West Side Story
9th Jun 2014
Katherine enjoys a wonderful, fresh new recording of Bernstein's modern re-telling of the story of Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story.
