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American choral works from Stephen Layton and Polyphony
6th Jul 2015
David enjoys Polyphony's timely celebration of choral Americana, featuring works by Thompson, Barber, Bernstein and Copland.
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José Serebrier on Dvorak
18th Jun 2015
David talks to the conductor about his recently-completed Dvorak set, out now on Warner Classics.
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Russian Emigrés and Henry Purcell
17th Jun 2015
Two new discs on the way from Vivat - Purcell's chamber music with the King's Consort and contemporary Russian works from Alissa Firsova.
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Walter Weller (1939-2015)
16th Jun 2015
David remembers the conductor and violinist Walter Weller, who has died aged 75.
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Alina Ibragimova on Ysaÿe
12th Jun 2015
The violinist talks about the Belgian composer's sonatas for unaccompanied violin, which she has just recorded on Hyperion.
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Nielsen Concertos with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic
8th Jun 2015
David listens to three concertos by Carl Nielsen, accompanied by the New York Philharmonic under Alan Gilbert.
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Peter Cropper (1945-2015)
2nd Jun 2015
David pays tribute to the violinist, educator and founder of The Lindsay Quartet, who died on Friday.
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Mark Bebbington on the piano music of Arthur Bliss
28th May 2015
David talks to the champion of British piano repertoire about the latest volume in his Bliss series on Somm Records.
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Graham Ross on Shostakovich's chamber symphonies
20th May 2015
Conductor Graham Ross talks to David about his new project of Shostakovich chamber symphonies with the Dmitri Ensemble.
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Mahler from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra
18th May 2015
David listens to Iván Fischer's new account of Mahler's elegiac Ninth Symphony, with the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
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Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
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Paul McCreesh on Handel’s 'L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato'
8th May 2015
David talks to the conductor about Handel's tripartite work, which weighs up the appeals of the hedonistic and the intellectual lifestyles in a kind of musical argument.
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Liszt, Reubke and Mendelssohn from Stephen Cleobury
5th May 2015
Stephen Cleobury, the long-serving Director of Music at King's College Cambridge, talks to David about his latest album - featuring three large-scale organ works.
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Harping on with Xavier de Maistre
29th Apr 2015
David talks to the harpist about his new disc, Moldau, featuring Slavic-flavoured arrangements and compositions for the harp.
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Brahms Inspired - Orli Shaham
15th Apr 2015
Brahms's Op. 119 provides creative impetus for three newly commissioned works in this new project from the American pianist.
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Passion settings by James MacMillan and JS Bach
6th Apr 2015
David listens to two very different musical responses to the Passion story – James MacMillan's new St Luke Passion and the Academy of Ancient Music's performance of Bach's time-honoured St Matthew.
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Edvard Grieg
3rd Apr 2015
David picks some of the best recordings of the works of the Norwegian Romantic nationalist, Edvard Grieg.
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Shostakovich from the Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin
30th Mar 2015
David listens to the Takács Quartet's stirring account of Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 2, joined by Marc-André Hamelin for his Piano Quintet.
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The Miraculous Mandolin
26th Mar 2015
David talks to Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital about his new solo album, Vivaldi.
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Isabelle Faust plays Schumann's Violin Concerto
23rd Mar 2015
David listens to Isabelle Faust's account of Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor, with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Pablo Heras-Casado.
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Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
20th Mar 2015
Kent Nagano and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal return to Decca with a rarely-heard French collaboration.
