Latest News: Classical, Interview
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Interview,
Bruno de Sá on Roma Travestita 6th October 2022
The Brazilian soprano discusses his debut album on Erato (exploring the period of operatic history when women were forbidden from performing on the Roman stage) and the process of 'finding his own path' as a high-voiced male singer...
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Interview,
Domingo Hindoyan on life in Liverpool 5th October 2022
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra's new Chief Conductor talks about his debut recording of Debussy, Roussel and Dukas on Onyx, his relationship with his mentor Daniel Barenboim, and how being part of the original El Sistema in Venezuela has informed his approach to music education and community work.
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Interview,
Bjarte Eike on The Playhouse Sessions 26th September 2022
Violinist and music director Bjarte Eike talks about his new album and follow-up to the highly successful Alehouse Sessions, drawing further inspiration from the lively nightlife of Restoration England.
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Interview,
Peter Gregson on Patina 24th September 2022
As his forthcoming album Quartets: One - Four is announced, the cellist and composer reflects on his previous project Patina (an 'alternative version' of which was released this summer) and why he's keen to move away from 'the Instagram version of music'...
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Interview,
RIOPY on Bliss 22nd September 2022
The French-born pianist and composer explains how developing a daily meditation practice not only inspired the music on his latest album, but also transformed his life...
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Interview,
Sean Shibe on Lost and Found 21st September 2022
The guitarist talks about his wide-ranging new album on the electric guitar, taking in Hildegard, Moondog, Chick Corea and more.
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Interview,
Andrew Nethsingha on The Psalms 19th September 2022
The director of music at St John's College Cambridge talks about his new album of psalms, and looks ahead to his upcoming move to Westminster Abbey.
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Interview,
Alison Balsom on Quiet City 14th September 2022
The trumpet-player discusses her new album of music by composers including Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein and Ives, and reflects on the unique qualities of Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie...
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Interview,
Jenny Q Chai on Songs of Love 12th September 2022
The pianist and entrepreneuse talks about her album in memory of her teacher Seymour Lipkin, the Shanghai music school she set up in 2011, and her involvement in bringing music and AI together.
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Interview,
Martin Roscoe on Beethoven's Hammerklavier 8th September 2022
Martin Roscoe talks about the final volume of his Beethoven sonata series, featuring the Hammerklavier offset by two lighter sonatas.
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Interview,
Randall Scotting on Senesino 31st August 2022
The American countertenor discusses his new album The Crown, exploring the star castrato's legacy beyond the Handel roles for which he is best known today...
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Interview,
Fatma Said on Kaleidoscope 25th August 2022
Ahead of the release of her eclectic dance-inspired album next Friday, the Egyptian soprano talks to Katherine about taking her first steps in ballroom as a hip-hop-loving teenager in Cairo, the parallels between Argentinian tango and classical singing, and two very different divas who inspired her programming...
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Interview,
Giulia Nuti on The Fall of the Leaf 24th August 2022
The Italian harpsichordist talks about her new album celebrating the Golden Age of English keyboard music (out this Friday on Arcana), and the remarkable history of the 'Rucellai Virginal' which she plays on the recording...
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Interview,
Michael Waldron on Colourise 17th August 2022
The director of London Choral Sinfonia discusses their new album, featuring the world premiere recordings of Lennox Berkeley's Variations on a Hymn by Orlando Gibbons and Vaughan Williams's arrangement of the Five Mystical Songs for voice, choir, piano and strings .
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Interview,
Anna Harvey and Mark Austin on the songs of Warlock and Howe 15th August 2022
The mezzo-soprano and pianist talk about their new album of English song from two unique musicians - the Tudor-inspired Peter Warlock and the contemporary composer Frederick Howe.
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Interview,
Francesco Corti on Bach 10th August 2022
The harpsichordist and conductor talks about the pleasures and challenges of reconstructing a harpsichord concerto from a single page of music - and how Bach's resourcefulness resonates with his own 'very Italian common-sense practical side!'.
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Interview,
Joel von Lerber on Légende and harp rivalries 8th August 2022
The Swiss harpist talks about his new album of nineteenth-century solo harp repertoire, the instrument's development over that period, and the struggle over which design would win out as its modern form.
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Interview,
Anna Lapwood on Celestial Dawn 25th July 2022
The organist and conductor discusses her new recording with The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir, featuring music by composers including Nadia & Lili Boulanger, Kristina Arakelyan, Wayne Marshall and John Dankworth.
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Interview,
Nico Muhly & Nicholas Phan on Stranger 21st July 2022
In the wake of its world premiere recording on Avie, the composer and tenor discuss the extraordinary song-cycle which Muhly composed for Phan in 2019, and reflect on the themes of immigration and identity which lie at the heart of the work.
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Interview,
Marc-André Hamelin on the Rags of William Bolcom 18th July 2022
The pianist talks about his recently-released recording of rags by William Bolcom, the revivalist craze that Bolcom spearheaded, and his own relationship with an indefatigable veteran of the American composing scene.
