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Rory McCleery on Vicente Lusitano
16th Feb 2023
The Marian Consort's director talks about the ensemble's recent album of choral polyphony by Vicente Lusitano, the earliest-known classical composer of African ancestry.
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Julian Podger on the music of Dufay
9th Feb 2023
The director of Gothic Voices talks about the group's new album of choral works from Florentine collections, including two of Dufay's most famous motets - Nuper rosarum flores and O tres piteulx.
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Early Music Round-Up - February 2023
6th Feb 2023
Majestic works for brass and choir from InAlto and Lambert Colson, innovative Monteverdi madrigals from Concerto Italiano and Rinaldo Alessandrini, rediscovered Rameau from Alexis Kossenko and friends, a bumper crop of anniversary recordings of Byrd and Weelkes, and more.
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Passages: German Ritual Music 1600-1800
Alice Foccroulle, Griet De Geyter, InAlto and Lambert Colson, Alice Foccroulle (soloist), Griet De Geyter (soloist), Geoffroy Buffière, InAlto and Lambert Colson, Geoffroy Buffière (soloist), Alice Foccroulle, InAlto and Lambert Colson, Griet De Geyter, InAlto and Lambert Colson InAlto, Lambert Colson
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Well-tempered Bach on the clavichord from András Schiff
27th Jan 2023
An oft-neglected early keyboard instrument finally gets its moment in the sun in an intimate programme of Bach that plays to its strengths, built around the two-part and three-part inventions.
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J.S. Bach: Clavichord
András Schiff (clavichord)
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Matthew Schellhorn on the piano music of Herbert Howells
26th Jan 2023
The pianist talks about his second volume of piano works by Howells, consisting almost entirely of world premiere recordings.
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Christopher Tin on The Lost Birds
22nd Jan 2023
The composer talks about his new work, calling attention to declining bird biodiversity through settings of Romantic poetry.
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Ian Venables on the first recordings of his Requiem
18th Jan 2023
The composer talks to David about his Requiem, recorded on Somm Records in 2020 by the choir of Gloucester Cathedral, and more recently in its full orchestral version by the choir of Merton College Oxford and the Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia.
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Dussek on Dussek
16th Jan 2023
Pianist Michael Dussek talks about his new album of innovative music by his ancestor Jan Ladislav, and of the influence it had on Chopin.
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Rebecca Saunders on 'Skin'
10th Jan 2023
The British composer talks about her new album, drawing together three of her collaboratively-created contemporary works: Skin, void and Unbreathed.
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Frank Agsteribbe on elaborate Requiem Masses by Philippus van Steelant
3rd Jan 2023
The conductor discusses the splendour of funerary works by Philippus van Steelant, newly recorded by B'Rock Orchestra and cantoLX.
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Antwerp Requiem ca. 1650
cantoLX, B'Rock Orchestra, Frank Agsteribbe
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Parker Ramsay and Nico Muhly on The Street
29th Dec 2022
The harpist and composer talk about a striking new work based on the Stations of the Cross.
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Daniel Trocmé-Latter and Patrick Allies on The Mysterious Motet Book of 1539
21st Dec 2022
Siglo de Oro's director Patrick Allies and musicologist Daniel Trocmé-Latter talk about a new recording of Renaissance motets with an unexpected origin.
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Eric Saylor's biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams
15th Dec 2022
David delves into one of our Books of the Year, offering his thoughts on a fascinating new biography by author and musicologist Eric Saylor of Ralph Vaughan Williams, released during the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth and published by Oxford University Press as part of their Master Musicians series.
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Will Dawes on Dawn of Grace
14th Dec 2022
The Director of Music at Oxford's Somerville College talks about a new album celebrating the Christmas music of contemporary women composers.
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A piano double-bill from Leeds winners Alim Beisembayev and Eric Lu
9th Dec 2022
Masterful Liszt and delicate Schubert from the 2021 and 2018 winners of the Leeds International Piano Competition.
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Christopher Gray on Russell Pascoe's Secular Requiem
6th Dec 2022
The conductor talks about his new recording of a piece reimagining the idea of a Requiem from a non-religious perspective - and about his recently-announced new job.
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Frank La Rocca and Richard Sparks on the Mass of the Americas
1st Dec 2022
The composer and conductor talk about a fascinating new work drawing together musical and liturgical influences from both sides of the Atlantic.
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Baroque instrumental music for Christmas from Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort
25th Nov 2022
Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort present an alternative Christmas sound-world, replacing vocal and choral music with string concertos and sonatas from around Europe.
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Clare Hammond on the piano études of Hélène de Montgeroult
23rd Nov 2022
The pianist talks about her new album focusing on the revolutionary piano studies of Hélène de Montgeroult - anticipating many of the ideas that would be adopted by later Romantic composers.
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Rachel Podger on Tutta Sola
22nd Nov 2022
The violinist talks about her new album exploring the ancestry of Bach's works for unaccompanied violin, with works from Tartini, Matteis, Westhoff and Vilsmayr.
