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Byron Janis (1928-2024)
20th Mar 2024
The American pianist and composer, renowned for his interpretations of Romantic repertoire and in particular of Chopin, has died.
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Beatrice Rana on Chopin and Beethoven
20th Mar 2024
The pianist talks about her new recording of Chopin's 'Funeral March' sonata and Beethoven's Hammerklavier Op. 106.
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Chopin & Beethoven: Sonatas
Beatrice Rana (piano)
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Chopin and Beethoven from Beatrice Rana
15th Mar 2024
The Italian pianist presents an unusual pairing of sonatas - a sensitive, light performance of Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 complemented by a masterful and fearless Hammerklavier.
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Chopin & Beethoven: Sonatas
Beatrice Rana (piano)
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Hugo Wolf
13th Mar 2024
A selection of some of the best recordings of music by the arch-Romantic Lieder composer - best known for his intense, harmonically adventurous Mörike-Lieder, Italienisches Liederbuch and Spanisches Liederbuch.
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Richard Baker on The Tyranny of Fun
12th Mar 2024
The composer talks about his new album of ensemble and choral works with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, out on March 15th on NMC Records.
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Sebastian Studnitzky on 'Memento Odesa'
11th Mar 2024
The trumpeter and composer talks about his new EP of works recorded in the Ukrainian city of Odesa, in collaboration with the city's symphony orchestra and its conductor Volodymyr Dikiy.
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Memento Odesa
Studnitzky, Odesa Symphonic Orchestra, Volodymyr Dikiy
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Bedřich Smetana
2nd Mar 2024
A selection of some of the best recordings of music by the great Czech Romantic composer - best known for his stirring pictorial tone poem Má vlast and opera The Bartered Bride.
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St David's Day - Music from Wales
1st Mar 2024
A selection of music from Wales - Welsh and English songs for voice and piano, orchestral works, choral music and more.
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Bartók, Janáček and Szymanowski from Piotr Anderszewski
26th Feb 2024
The pianist talks about his new album of piano works from Central Europe, featuring Bartók Bagatelles, the second book of Janáček's On an Overgrown Path and Szymanowski Mazurkas.
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Bartók, Janáček, Szymanowski
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
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Episode 48: Doubling Brahms - Busoni and his violin concerto with Francesca Dego
24th Feb 2024
The violinist talks about her new recording of violin concertos by Brahms and Busoni on Chandos - explaining why she was drawn to the Italian composer's music, how his violin concerto reveals his profound admiration for Brahms's, and what happens when a wife-and-husband musician couple take to the stage together.
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Early Music Round-Up - February 2024
20th Feb 2024
A double-bill of French Baroque Te Deums from Ensemble Les Surprises and Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, a second helping of Locke's adventurous consort music from Phantasm, magnificent English rediscoveries from Solomon's Knot, world-premiere recordings of Barbara Strozzi from Giulia Bolcato and REMER Ensemble, and more.
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A Lifetime of Vivaldi from Théotime Langlois de Swarte
16th Feb 2024
A lively re-telling of Vivaldi's life through a selection of his violin concertos, from perhaps the most exciting young Baroque violinist around - including a number of world premiere recordings, and a gorgeous recent rediscovery.
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Julie Cooper on Oculus
13th Feb 2024
The composer talks about her second album of chamber music on Signum Records, inspired by ideas of colour through history and drawing on her extensive experience as a composer for film and television.
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Julie Cooper: Oculus
Joby Burgess (percussion), Camilla Pay, Julie Cooper, Joshua Davidson, Grace Davidson (soprano), Eliza Marshall, Rebeca Omordia (piano), Anna Hale, Cara Berridge, Her Ensemble, Oculus Ensemble, Jessica Cottis, Simon Hale, Clio Gould
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Seiji Ozawa (1935-2024)
12th Feb 2024
The Japanese conductor, known particularly for his work with the Toronto Symphony, San Francisco Symphony and Boston Symphony Orchestras, has died aged 88.
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Episode 47: An Invitation to the Dance – Storming the ‘barricades mystérieuses’ with Martin James Bartlett
27th Jan 2024
The pianist talks about his trio of recordings for Warner Classics, explains why his latest album mercifully didn’t require him to get his own feet moving - well, not much, anyway - and ponders the role of dance-inspired music within the broader classical repertoire.
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PDQ Bach (2024-1742?)
22nd Jan 2024
The composer acclaimed as possessing 'the originality of Johann Christian, the arrogance of Carl Philipp Emanuel, and the obscurity of Johann Christoph Friedrich' has died.
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Lalo orchestral works from Neeme Järvi and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
19th Jan 2024
The veteran conductor and his musicians present a selection of sweeping and vivid orchestral works by the late-nineteenth-century French Romantic composer Édouard Lalo.
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Carl Friedrich Abel
11th Jan 2024
A selection of some of the best recordings of music by perhaps the last of the great viola da gamba players, in a slightly belated celebration of the 300th anniversary of his birth.
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Raphaël Pichon on Monteverdi's Vespers
8th Jan 2024
The conductor talks about his new recording of Monteverdi's unique sacred masterpiece, plus recent and upcoming Delibes and Mozart projects.
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John Williams on Paseo
21st Dec 2023
The guitarist talks about his new album featuring works by Latin American composers - as well as some of his own homage-compositions.
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Paseo
John Williams (guitar)
