Latest News: Classical, Interview
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Interview,
Odaline de la Martinez on Ethel Smyth 8th March 2020
The Cuban-American conductor talks to David about the music of Ethel Smyth, four of whose songs she conducts on a new album from Somm.
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Interview,
Stanford String Quartets from the Dante Quartet 5th March 2020
David talks to violinist Krysia Osostowicz and musicologist Jeremy Dibble about the final volume in the Dante Quartet's Stanford cycle.
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Interview,
Ruby Hughes on Clytemnestra 4th March 2020
The British soprano talks to Katherine about her new album featuring Rhian Samuel's Aeschylus-inspired monodrama and song-cycles by Mahler and Berg, out now on BIS.
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Interview,
Owen Rees on Josquin and his legacy 17th February 2020
David talks to conductor and musicologist Owen Rees about his latest album with Contrapunctus, exploring the impact of Josquin on Spanish polyphony.
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Interview,
Papagena - Hush! 15th February 2020
David talks to members of the all-female vocal quintet about their new recording on Somm Recordings.
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Interview,
Paavo Järvi on the NHK Symphony Orchestra 13th February 2020
Ahead of the release of their album of Bartók on Sony Classical tomorrow, the Japanese orchestra's Chief Conductor talks to Katherine about expanding their twentieth-century and contemporary repertoire and his plans for their future together.
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Interview,
Kate Lindsey on Arianna 11th February 2020
The American mezzo (currently starring as Nerone in Handel's Agrippina at the Metropolitan Opera) talks to Katherine about her new recording of cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti, Handel and Haydn, released last month on Alpha.
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Interview,
Ēriks Ešenvalds on There Will Come Soft Rains 8th February 2020
Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds talks to David about his new album of choral works, recorded by the Choir of the West at Pacific Lutheran University in Washington.
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Interview,
The Well-Tempered Consort 4th February 2020
Phantasm's founder, director and violist Laurence Dreyfus talks to David about the consort's new disc, exploring the polyphonic keyboard works of JS Bach in new arrangements for viols.
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Interview,
John Wilson on Sinfonia of London 30th January 2020
The British conductor talks to James about his new ensemble and their first two recording projects of music by Korngold plus a selection of French orchestral works.
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Interview,
Reinoud Van Mechelen on Charpentier 28th January 2020
The Belgian tenor talks to David about his recent double-bill of Charpentier's settings of the Orpheus myth, with A Nocte Temporis and Vox Luminis.
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Interview,
Xavier Sabata on Winterreise 20th January 2020
The Catalan countertenor talks to Katherine about taking 'a trip into the darkness of the mind' on his recording of Schubert's great song-cycle, released before Christmas on Berlin Classics.
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Interview,
Paul Wee on Alkan 13th January 2020
Australian pianist and lawyer Paul Wee talks to David about his new recording of two monumental works by Alkan - the Symphony and Concerto for solo piano - and about his intense double career.
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Interview,
Two new concertos by Gabriel Prokofiev 8th January 2020
Russian-British composer, DJ and record producer Gabriel Prokofiev talks to David about his recently-released double-bill of concertos, showcasing the saxophone and bass drum as solo instruments.
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Interview,
Christmas with the Gesualdo Six 17th December 2019
David talks to the vocal ensemble's founder and director Owain Park about their new album of Christmas music old and new, featuring repertoire from medieval plainchant to contemporary composers such as Eleanor Daley.
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Interview,
Septura on Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker 12th December 2019
David talks to Septura's Matthew Knight and Simon Cox about their newly-released recording of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, arranged for brass septet and narrated by Derek Jacobi.
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Interview,
James Hall on Elegy 11th December 2019
The young British countertenor talks to Katherine about his career to date and his recent album of duets by Purcell and Blow with Iestyn Davies and The King's Consort.
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Interview,
Angela Gheorghiu on Plaisir d'amour 8th December 2019
On the 25th anniversary of the BBC broadcast of her landmark Traviata from Covent Garden, the Romanian soprano reminisces about the production with Katherine and discusses her new recording on Decca Classics.
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Interview,
Tom Herring on The Waiting Sky 2nd December 2019
Sansara's Artistic Director Tom Herring talks to David about the choir's new recording of music for the Advent and Christmas seasons, featuring newly-commissioned works alongside Renaissance and Medieval motets.
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Interview,
Jonathan Sells on Christmas in Leipzig 25th November 2019
Jonathan Sells, artistic director of the British early music ensemble Solomon's Knot, talks to David about their début recording, featuring three consecutive musical directors at the Leipzig Thomaskirche - Johann Schelle, Johann Kuhnau and, of course, Johann Sebastian Bach.
