Classical Interviews
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Javier Camarena on Signor Gaetano
28th Dec 2022
The Mexican tenor discusses his recent Pentatone album exploring Donizetti's Italian operas (including rarities such as Betly, Maria de Rudenz and Giovedì Grasso), and explains why singing these works leaves him 'feeling satisfied and happy, rather than mentally exhausted!'.
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Julian Marshall and James Gilchrist on The Angel in the Forest
22nd Dec 2022
The British composer discusses his atmospheric song-cycle for tenor and chamber ensemble (released as an EP on Orchid Classics last month) with its dedicatee.
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Daniel Trocmé-Latter and Patrick Allies on The Mysterious Motet Book of 1539
21st Dec 2022
Siglo de Oro's director Patrick Allies and musicologist Daniel Trocmé-Latter talk about a new recording of Renaissance motets with an unexpected origin.
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ATMA Classique's complete Massenet songs project
19th Dec 2022
The label's artistic director Michel Ferland talks to Katherine about one of the most ambitious recording-projects ever undertaken in Canada, featuring over 300 songs and a line-up of artists including Karina Gauvin, Marie-Nicole Lemieux and Julie Boulianne.
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Jules Massenet - Intégrale des mélodies pour voix et piano
Olivier Godin (piano, harmonium, harpsichord), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Antonio Figueroa (tenor), Anna-Sophie Neher (soprano), Karina Gauvin (soprano), Jean-François Lapointe (baritone), Magali Simard-Galdès (soprano), Marc Boucher (baritone), Joé Lampron-Dandonneau (tenor), Hugo Laporte (baritone), David Jacques (guitar), Florence Bourget (contralto, soprano), Julie Boulianne (mezzo-soprano), Emmanuel Hasler (tenor), Éric Laporte (tenor), Michèle Losier (mezzo-soprano), Sophie Naubert (soprano), Stéphane Tétreault (cello), Frédéric Antoun (tenor), Jean Marchand (narrator), Antoine Bareil (violin), Valérie Milot (harp), Marie-Ève Pelletier (narrator), Antoine Bélanger (tenor)
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Christophe Rousset on Les Talens Lyriques at 30
15th Dec 2022
As his ensemble celebrates its thirtieth birthday, the conductor and harpsichordist talks about turning people onto Lully, venturing towards Wagner, and 'opening doors' for the next generation of young musicians and music-lovers in France...
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Will Dawes on Dawn of Grace
14th Dec 2022
The Director of Music at Oxford's Somerville College talks about a new album celebrating the Christmas music of contemporary women composers.
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Christopher Gray on Russell Pascoe's Secular Requiem
6th Dec 2022
The conductor talks about his new recording of a piece reimagining the idea of a Requiem from a non-religious perspective - and about his recently-announced new job.
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Frank La Rocca and Richard Sparks on the Mass of the Americas
1st Dec 2022
The composer and conductor talk about a fascinating new work drawing together musical and liturgical influences from both sides of the Atlantic.
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Clare Hammond on the piano études of Hélène de Montgeroult
23rd Nov 2022
The pianist talks about her new album focusing on the revolutionary piano studies of Hélène de Montgeroult - anticipating many of the ideas that would be adopted by later Romantic composers.
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Hélène de Montgeroult: Études
Clare Hammond (piano)
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Rachel Podger on Tutta Sola
22nd Nov 2022
The violinist talks about her new album exploring the ancestry of Bach's works for unaccompanied violin, with works from Tartini, Matteis, Westhoff and Vilsmayr.
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John Nelson on Berlioz and Handel
18th Nov 2022
The veteran American conductor answers some quick questions about his new live recording of Les nuits d'été & Harold en Italie - and looks forward to his performance of Messiah at Coventry Cathedral next week...
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Anna Fedorova on Rachmaninoff concertos and the Davidsbündler Academy
16th Nov 2022
The pianist talks about her new recording of Rachmaninoff, her upcoming recording plans, and her extensive and ongoing efforts to support Ukrainian refugees through music.
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Owain Park on Lux Aeterna
14th Nov 2022
The director of the Gesualdo Six talks about the group's new album, featuring music for remembrance and commemoration.
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Leif Ove Andsnes on Dvořák's Poetic Tone Pictures
9th Nov 2022
The pianist talks about his new recording of Dvořák's rarely-heard contribution to the genre of pictorial piano miniatures.
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Lisette Oropesa on French bel canto
7th Nov 2022
As she prepares for the opening night of Handel's Alcina at Covent Garden tomorrow, the Cuban-American soprano discusses her new album of French opera arias by Donizetti and Rossini on Pentatone.
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Remembering George Walker on his centenary
3rd Nov 2022
With a cycle of Walker's Sinfonias underway from the National Symphony Orchestra, the composer's son Gregory and conductor Gianandrea Noseda reflect on his legacy.
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Amanda Lee Falkenberg and Nicole Stott on the Moons Symphony
31st Oct 2022
The composer and astronaut talk about their collaboration on an inspiring new work depicting seven of the Solar System's moons, and about art's role in communicating the wonders of scientific discovery.
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Midori Komachi on the violin works of Vaughan Williams
24th Oct 2022
The violinist talks about her recent album of Vaughan Williams's music for violin and piano, with Simon Callaghan.
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Jan Talich Jr on the art of quartet-playing
20th Oct 2022
In the wake of their new recording of Dvořák's 'American' Quartet, the Czech violinist and conductor discusses the history of the quartet which his father founded in 1964 - and which he himself has led for the past twenty-five years.
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Dvořák: 'American' Quartet & 8 Waltzes
Talich Quartet
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Víkingur Ólafsson on From Afar
13th Oct 2022
The Icelandic pianist recounts how meeting 'living legend' György Kurtág in Budapest last summer inspired his latest album - part 'fan-letter' to the composer himself and part musical autobiography...
