Latest News: Classical, Barbara Hannigan (Soprano)
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Recording of the Week,
A fin-de-siècle voyage with Barbara Hannigan and the Emerson String Quartet 8th September 2023
The quartet - joined by Barbara Hannigan and Bertrand Chamayou - go out on a high after nearly fifty years of music-making, with a programme of early twentieth-century works themed around journeying and longing.
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Recording of the Week,
Dance With Me from LUDWIG Orchestra and Barbara Hannigan 4th March 2022
An ensemble drawn from the Netherlands-based chamber orchestra have a ball with a selection of twentieth-century dances, taking in music by Elgar, Kurt Weill, Glenn Miller and Barry Manilow along the way...
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Recording of the Week,
George Benjamin's Lessons in Love and Violence 28th December 2018
The British composer's third opera, based on the downfall of Edward II and starring French baritone Stéphane Degout as the conflicted monarch, has a compact, claustrophobic beauty.
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Recording of the Week,
Barbara Hannigan sings and conducts music by Berg, Berio, and Gershwin 22nd September 2017
Katherine listens to the Canadian soprano's bold new disc Crazy Girl Crazy, centring on Berg's Lulu.
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Interview,
Barbara Hannigan on Crazy Girl Crazy 20th September 2017
Katherine talks to the Canadian soprano about her bold new album juxtaposing Gershwin, Berg and Berio, in which she both sings and directs the Ludwig Orchestra.
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Recording of the Week,
Piano and Vocal music by Erik Satie 1st July 2016
James listens to a double helping of works by Satie, whose 150th anniversary falls this year.
