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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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Oscar Peterson - Night Train
29th Mar 2021
Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson's most well-regarded album sees him showcasing his bebop chops while paying homage to his beginnings as the 'King Inside of Swing'.
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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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New Release Round-Up - 26th March 2021
26th Mar 2021
Beethoven, Wagner and Verdi from Lise Davidsen, Bach from Phantasm and Collegium Vocale Gent, and Gounod's Faust from Covent Garden, starring Michael Fabiano and Erwin Schrott.
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Shez Raja - Tales from the Punjab
26th Mar 2021
Master bassist Shez Raja travels to the Indian sub-continent to rediscover his roots and engineer a brilliant meeting between eastern and western schools of improvisation.
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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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BBC Music Magazine - April 2021 Choices
24th Mar 2021
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by a powerful recital of songs by Black composers from baritone Will Liverman and pianist Paul Sánchez on Cedille.
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Peter Whelan on The Trials of Tenducci
23rd Mar 2021
The conductor talks to Katherine about his new recording with the Irish Baroque Orchestra, which explores the musical life of mid-eighteenth-century Dublin and the legacy of one of its brightest imported stars - the scandal-hit castrato Giusto Fernando Tenducci.
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Yevgeny Nesterenko (1938-2021)
22nd Mar 2021
The Russian bass, who was closely associated with the Bolshoi throughout his long career and was particularly acclaimed in Russian repertoire, has died aged 83.
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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Evgeni Nesterenko (Boris), Elena Obraztsova (Marina), Anatoli Babikin (Pimen), Vladimir Atlantov (Grigory/False Dmitri), Artur Eisen (Varlaam), Yuri Mazurok (Rangoni), Konstantin Lisovsky (Shuisky), Olga Teruchnova (Fyodor), Elena Shkolnikova (Xenia), Larissa Nikitina (Hostess), Alexei Maslennikov (Simpleton) Choir and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, Mark Ermler
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New Music Book Publications - 22nd March 2021
22nd Mar 2021
A new paperback edition of Roger Scruton's exploration of Wagner's Parsifal; an examination of methods in music research; a social history of folk song in England; an analysis of musical infrastructures; a handbook of algorithmic music; and a discussion of the ways in which French composers channeled their trauma into their music after the First World War.
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Episode 14: The Music of Malcolm Arnold with Piers Burton-Page
21st Mar 2021
Author and President of the Malcolm Arnold Society, Piers Burton-Page, gives an overview of the life and work of this important voice in twentieth-century British music.
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Strauss Lieder from Sandrine Piau and Daniel Behle
19th Mar 2021
The French soprano brings an uncommon freshness and flexibility to the Four Last Songs with the Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche-Comté, whilst Behle and his regular recital-partner Oliver Schnyder revel in the composer's coruscating attack on publishers in the rarely-recorded Der Krämerspiegel.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th March 2021
19th Mar 2021
Rachmaninov from Rattle and the LSO, English song from alumni of King's College Cambridge, Rameau from György Vashegyi, and a Proustian recital from Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt.
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Veronica Swift - This Bitter Earth
19th Mar 2021
Vocalist Veronica Swift's second record with Mack Avenue tackles some much wider-spread themes such as sexism, racism and misinformation on her excellent follow-up to 2019's Confessions.
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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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Jazz New Release Round-Up - 18th March 2021
18th Mar 2021
Futuristic jazz-hop, improvised electroacoustic music and classical guitar works composed by Pat Metheny are among our favourite recent releases in this week's round-up.
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Joyce DiDonato's Winterreise and other forthcoming highlights
17th Mar 2021
A novel take on Schubert's Winter Journey from the American mezzo and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, plus Schoenberg from Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Vaughan Williams from Antonio Pappano, and Péter Eötvös's new violin concerto from its dedicatee Isabelle Faust.
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James Levine (1943-2021)
17th Mar 2021
The American conductor and pianist, who served as Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera for forty years before his career ended amid allegations of sexual abuse, has died aged 77.
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Renaud Capuçon on Elgar
16th Mar 2021
The French violinist talks to Katherine about recording the Violin Concerto and Sonata with Sir Simon Rattle, the London Symphony Orchestra, and Stephen Hough.
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Grammy Winners 2021
15th Mar 2021
Chris introduces the winning classical albums from this year's ceremony, which took place last night in Los Angeles.
