Classical Interviews
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Jenny Q Chai on Songs of Love
12th Sep 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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Songs of Love
Jenny Q Chai (piano)
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Martin Roscoe on Beethoven's Hammerklavier
8th Sep 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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Randall Scotting on Senesino
31st Aug 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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Fatma Said on Kaleidoscope
25th Aug 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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Giulia Nuti on The Fall of the Leaf
24th Aug 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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The Fall of the Leaf
Giulia Nuti (early keyboard instruments)
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Michael Waldron on Colourise
17th Aug 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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Anna Harvey and Mark Austin on the songs of Warlock and Howe
15th Aug 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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Songs by Warlock and Howe
Anna Harvey, Mark Austin
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Francesco Corti on Bach
10th Aug 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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Joel von Lerber on Légende and harp rivalries
8th Aug 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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Légende
Joel von Lerber (harp)
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Anna Lapwood on Celestial Dawn
25th Jul 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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Nico Muhly & Nicholas Phan on Stranger
21st Jul 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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Marc-André Hamelin on the Rags of William Bolcom
18th Jul 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.
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The Ssens Trio on Norwegian string trios
11th Jul 2022
The trio's members talk about their latest album of twentieth-century string trios from their home country.
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Alessandro Quarta on Sixteen Seasons
6th Jul 2022
Italian violinist, composer and musical superstar Alessandro Quarta talks to Presto's Paolo Pezzangora about his new album Sixteen Seasons - juxtaposing four composers' musical responses to the seasons of the year.
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Florian Sempey on Rossini
28th Jun 2022
The French baritone discusses his new album Figaro? Sì! (out now on Alpha Classics), the stage-director who transformed his perspective on Rossini's wheeler-dealing barber, and how the composer's joie de vivre is often underscored by melancholy...
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Lola Descours on Bassoon Steppes
27th Jun 2022
The bassoonist discusses her new album of transcriptions, featuring Shostakovich, Rachmaninov and more, and the unique relationship between the instrument and Russian repertoire.
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Bassoon Steppes
Lola Descours (bassoon), Paloma Kouider (piano)
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Tom Poster and Elena Urioste on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's chamber music
20th Jun 2022
The acclaimed husband-and-wife duo talk about their latest project – bringing the early chamber works of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor back into the repertoire in new editions, recorded by the Kaleidoscope Ensemble.
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Bart Van Reyn on CPE Bach's Die Auferstehung
14th Jun 2022
The Belgian conductor discusses his new recording of Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu, a passion-oratorio on Christ's Resurrection and Ascension which was conducted by Mozart in the presence of Beethoven and Haydn (and influenced the latter's The Creation).
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Franz Welser-Möst on Richard Strauss
7th Jun 2022
The Austrian conductor talks to Katherine about his lifelong affection for the composer's music, his new recording of Macbeth, Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel with the Cleveland Orchestra, and why their home at Severance Hall is 'the absolute perfect setting' for some of Strauss's most magical moments...
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Guitar works by John Brunning
31st May 2022
Composer John Brunning and guitarist Xuefei Yang talk about working together on an album of John's works for the guitar.
