Latest News: Classical, Interview
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Interview,
Raphaël Pichon on Monteverdi's Vespers 8th January 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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Interview,
Carlo Rizzi on Mercadante, Leoncavallo and Donizetti 28th December 2023
The Italian conductor looks back on his first few years as Artistic Director of Opera Rara, including recordings of Leoncavallo's Zingari and Mercadante's Il Proscritto - plus a new mission to record the complete Donizetti songs with singers including Lawrence Brownlee and William Thomas.
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Interview,
Charles Owen & Katya Apekisheva on the art of the piano duo 27th December 2023
The curators of the London Piano Festival reflect on what makes the perfect partner on the piano-bench, and discuss their new album of music by Poulenc, Milhaud and Debussy (released on Orchid Classics last month).
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Interview,
John Williams on Paseo 21st December 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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Interview,
Mathieu Romano on Ensemble Aedes 18th December 2023
The French conductor talks about the choir which he founded as a twenty-one-year-old student in Paris, their mission to be 'specialists of nothing', and their close rapport with his mentor François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles.
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Interview,
Rakhi Singh on Purnima - Contemporary works for solo violin 12th December 2023
The violinist and co-founder of the Manchester Collective talks about her debut full-length album as a solo artist, featuring works by Singh herself, by Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon of Bang on a Can, and by Emily Hall and Alex Groves.
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Interview,
Carolyn Sampson reflects on her first hundred recordings 6th December 2023
Ahead of her recital with Joseph Middleton at Wigmore Hall tonight, the soprano discusses her 100th album but I like to sing... - and reflects on some of the highlights of her recording career to date...
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Interview,
Rachel Podger and Chad Kelly on reimagining Bach's Goldberg Variations 4th December 2023
The violinist and composer share their thoughts on adapting Bach's immortal set of keyboard variations for Baroque instrumental ensemble.
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Interview,
Bob Chilcott on his Christmas Oratorio 1st December 2023
The composer talks about his new choral work, setting a range of traditional texts to re-tell the Christmas story and just released by the choir of Merton College, Oxford on Delphian Records.
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Interview,
Sean Shibe on Profesión - Barrios, Villa-Lobos and Ginastera 22nd November 2023
The guitarist talks about his album of Latin American guitar music, inspired by the artistic manifesto by Barrios from which it takes its name.
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Interview,
The King's Singers on Wonderland 16th November 2023
Patrick Dunachie and Jonathan Howard talk about the King's Singers' new album - including an unexpected change of direction for Joe Hisaishi and some revealing observations about the group's members...!
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Interview,
Maxim Emelyanychev on Mozart 9th November 2023
In the wake of the second instalment of his Mozart symphonies series with Il Pomo d'Oro, the Russian conductor and harpsichordist recounts how he fell under the composer's spell aged four - and was thrown in at the deep end to conduct the Overture to Le nozze di Figaro just eight years later...
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Interview,
Robert Hollingworth on Benevoli's multi-choir magnificence 7th November 2023
The director of I Fagiolini talks about his new album, featuring a four-choir work of unparalleled Baroque splendour by the seventeenth-century Italian composer Orazio Benevoli.
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Interview,
Johan Dalene on Stained Glass 26th October 2023
The Gramophone Award-winning young violinist discusses his new album with Christian Ihle Hadland, featuring music by Bacewicz, Ravel, Prokofiev, Pärt and Lili Boulanger.
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Interview,
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective - Transfigured 24th October 2023
The chamber ensemble's Artistic Director Tom Poster talks about their new album of works from the Second Viennese School - with a selection of songs from the cruelly truncated career of Alma Mahler in pride of place.
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Interview,
Zubin Kanga - the 'cyborg pianist' 18th October 2023
The pianist, composer and technologist talks about his new album on NMC that uses cutting-edge equipment to push the boundaries of what the instrument (and its player) can do.
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Interview,
Delyana Lazarova on the music of Dobrinka Tabakova 16th October 2023
The conductor talks about her new album of orchestral works by her compatriot, performed by the Hallé, and explains a little of the experience of working under Mark Elder as Assistant Conductor.
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Interview,
Anders Eidsten Dahl on Mozart and the Organ 9th October 2023
The organist talks about his new recording of Mozart gems for the organ - relatively brief single-work sonatas written for use during church services, as well as more substantial works including two dramatic Fantasias.
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Interview,
Dominic Fyfe and Philip Siney on remastering Solti's Ring Cycle 5th October 2023
In the wake of winning Gramophone's Spatial Audio Award for their painstaking work on Die Walküre, Decca's producer Dominic Fyfe and sound-engineer Philip Siney discuss how they went about showcasing Solti's landmark achievement in all its glory.
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Interview,
Miloš Karadaglić on Baroque (transcript) 1st October 2023
The Montenegrin guitarist explains why his upcoming album of music by Vivaldi, Marcello, Weiss, Rameau and others feels like 'standing on new ground' - and why JS Bach only came into the picture at the eleventh hour...
