Latest News: Classical, Interview
Interview, The Calidore Quartet on 'Resilience'
11th October 2018
The members of the young American string quartet talk to David about their début recording, which features four quartets from composers experiencing a variety of personal and political traumas.
Interview, Stuart Skelton on Wagner
4th October 2018
The Australian tenor (currently singing Siegmund in the Royal Opera House's Ring Cycle) talks to Katherine about his career as a Wagnerian and his debut solo recording Shining Knight, recently released on ABC Classics.
Interview, Sean Shibe on softLOUD
1st October 2018
Katherine talks to the award-winning young guitarist about his confrontational new album, which mixes seventeenth-century Scottish lute music with works by Steve Reich, Julia Wolfe and David Lang.
Interview, Albina Shagimuratova and Daniela Barcellona on Semiramide
26th September 2018
Katherine talks to the Russian soprano and Italian mezzo who star as mother and estranged son on Sir Mark Elder's new, uncut recording of Rossini's great opera seria.
Interview, Sir Thomas Allen on September Songs
24th September 2018
The veteran baritone talks to Katherine about his autumnal album of classics from The Great American Songbook, out now on Champs Hill Records and featuring soprano Lucy Crowe.
Interview, Magdalena Kožená on French song
20th September 2018
The Czech mezzo talks to Katherine about recording Duparc with Robin Ticciati and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin for their new album Aimer et mourir, out tomorrow on Linn Records.
Interview, Sakari Oramo on Langgaard
17th September 2018
The conductor of the Wiener Philharmoniker talks to David about his new album of works by the forgotten Danish Romantic composer Rued Langgaard.
Interview, Bertrand Chamayou on Saint-Saëns
10th September 2018
The French pianist talks to Katherine about his new recording of the Second and Fifth Piano Concertos and a selection of the composer's lesser-known solo piano works, released on Friday on Erato.
Interview, Roxanna Panufnik on 'Celestial Bird'
3rd September 2018
David talks to composer Roxanna Panufnik about her forthcoming collection of eclectic vocal works performed by Ex Cathedra and Milapfest under Jeffrey Skidmore.
Interview, Richard Bonynge on Edward J. Loder
28th August 2018
The veteran operatic conductor talks to Katherine about the world premiere recording of the Bath-born composer's Gothic melodrama Raymond and Agnes, out now on Retrospect Opera.
Interview, Scott Metcalfe on The Peterhouse Part-Books
20th August 2018
David talks to the founder and artistic director of Renaissance vocal ensemble Blue Heron about the culmination of his project to record lost pre-Reformation choral works from the Peterhouse Partbooks.
Interview, Christian Lindberg on Stenhammar
14th August 2018
The Swedish conductor talks to David about his new recording of Stenhammar's mighty Second Symphony with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.
Interview, Costantino Mastroprimiano on Hummel
7th August 2018
The pianist talks to David about his recently-completed set of sonatas by the great Central European composer.
Interview, Antonio Pappano on Bernstein
6th August 2018
Ahead of the Bernstein centenary later this month, the conductor talks to Katherine about recording his three symphonies with the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (out this Friday on Warner Classics).
Interview, Allan Clayton on Brett Dean's Hamlet
26th July 2018
Following on from our interview with the composer earlier this week, Katherine talks to the English tenor about bringing this new incarnation of Shakespeare's 'sweet prince' to life.
Interview, Brett Dean on Hamlet
23rd July 2018
The Australian composer talks to Katherine about the genesis of his acclaimed 2017 Shakespearean opera, filmed at Glyndebourne last summer and now available on DVD and Blu-ray from Opus Arte.
Interview, Mark Dourish on De Profundis
19th July 2018
The founder and director of Cambridge-based early music specialists De Profundis talks about the group's second album of Renaissance treasures for lower voices, released at the end of June on Hyperion.
Interview, Jan Bartoš on Beethoven
18th July 2018
The Czech pianist shares his thoughts on his new Beethoven album, out now on Supraphon.
Interview, Robert Hollingworth on Vivanco's Missa Assumpsit Jesus
11th July 2018
Conductor and musicologist Robert Hollingworth talks polyphony, period performance and pitch (and his new recording of Spanish Renaissance music with male-voice ensemble De Profundis).
Interview, Christopher Purves on Handel
5th July 2018
The British bass-baritone talks to Katherine about the second volume of 'Finest Arias for Base Voice', out now on Hyperion.