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William Towers on Handelian Pyrotechnics
19th May 2021
The countertenor talks about his recent album of Handel arias with Armonico, Handel's methods of encapsulating moods in music, and his own relationship with Handel's works.
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Esther Yoo and Narek Hakhnazaryan on Shostakovich and Babadjanian
10th May 2021
The violinist and cellist of the Z.E.N. Trio talk about the works on their most recent album, Burning Through The Cold.
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Lisette Oropesa on Mozart
7th May 2021
The Cuban-American soprano talks to David about today's Recording of the Week, Ombra compagna.
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Ana de la Vega on Bach Unbuttoned
6th May 2021
The Australian flautist talks about her new album of new perspectives on Bach, inspired by an intriguing detail on one of the most famous statues erected to him.
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Alina Ibragimova performs Paganini's Caprices
30th Apr 2021
The violinist releases the results of a uniquely ambitious "lockdown project" – a barnstorming new account of Paganini's fiendish Caprices, recorded in the late spring of 2020.
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Paganini: 24 Caprices
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
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Sabine Weyer on Miaskovsky and Bacri
29th Apr 2021
The Luxembourger pianist talks about her recent album Mysteries, in which she juxtaposes two very different composers' approaches to pushing the limits of Romanticism.
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Mysteries
Sabine Weyer (piano)
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Justin Taylor on the 'famille Rameau'
20th Apr 2021
The harpsichordist discusses his new album on Alpha, which sees him explore the music of the Rameau clan – not just the famous Jean-Philippe but also his equally distinguished descendants.
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Vaughan Williams from Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra
16th Apr 2021
Pappano takes on perhaps Vaughan Williams's two most challenging symphonies, in live recordings given a heightened emotional intensity by the circumstances of their performance.
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Andrew Nethsingha on Magnificat
13th Apr 2021
The Director of Music at St John's College Cambridge talks about the choir's second volume of Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis settings, ranging from Howells and Sumsion to contemporary composers such as Julian Anderson.
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Martin Suckling on This Departing Landscape
5th Apr 2021
The Scottish composer talks about his new album of orchestral and concertante works, drawing on inspirations ranging from childhood friendships to contemporary ceramic art and the philosophical musings of Morton Feldman.
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Ksenija Sidorova on Piazzólla's legacy
1st Apr 2021
The Latvian accordionist talks about her new album paying tribute to the great Astor Piazzólla, and tracing the modern legacy of his advocacy for the instrument.
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Music for Holy Week 2021
29th Mar 2021
A brief round-up of recent releases focusing on Passiontide and Easter.
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Handel: Brockes-Passion
Arcangelo (early music ensemble), Alex Potter, Stuart Jackson (tenor), Konstantin Krimmel (baritone), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Andrew Tortise (tenor), Mhairi Lawson (soprano), Matthew Long, Mary Bevan (soprano), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), David Allsopp, William Gaunt, Jonathan Cohen
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A Mozart postscript from Rachel Podger
26th Mar 2021
Rachel Podger and Christopher Glynn bring to life a selection of musicologist Timothy Jones’s thoughtful completions of fragmentary Mozart works, offering a variety of plausible perspectives on what might have been.
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Peter Cigleris on British Clarinet Concertos
25th Mar 2021
Clarinettist Peter Cigleris talks about his new album on Signum, which sees him revive not one but four forgotten clarinet concertos from early twentieth-century Britain.
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Julian Perkins on John Eccles's Semele
18th Mar 2021
The conductor and keyboardist talks about his recent recording of John Eccles's tragic Semele with the Academy of Ancient Music.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th March 2021
12th Mar 2021
Ives symphonies from Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the world premiere recording of Ludomir Różycki's 1944 Violin Concerto, and Strauss, Berg and Zemlinsky from Sandrine Piau.
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Clare Hammond on Variations
3rd Mar 2021
The pianist talks about her new album, that sees her draw together numerous different sets of variations from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Variations
Clare Hammond (piano)
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Johan Dalene on Nordic Rhapsody
2nd Mar 2021
The Swedish violinist talks about his new album of music from Northern Europe, with pianist Christian Ihle Hadland.
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Biber's Requiem from Vox Luminis
26th Feb 2021
Lionel Meunier's ensemble explore a time of religious and musical flux in Europe, with an album centred around Heinrich Biber's Requiem and less-heard works by his contemporaries.
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Biber: Requiem
Freiburger Barockconsort, Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
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Emmanuel Despax on Spira, Spera
25th Feb 2021
The pianist talks about his new album of Bach transcriptions, inspired in part by his personal reaction to the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of 2019.
