Classical Interviews
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Cordelia Williams on Nightlight
25th Aug 2021
The pianist talks to Katherine about her new playlist-style album on Somm Records, exploring different facets of night as depicted in works by Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Scriabin, Tomkins and Bill Evans.
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Cordelia Williams (piano)
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Seong-Jin Cho returns to Chopin
23rd Aug 2021
The pianist talks about his return to Chopin, the technical demands of his concertos, and the composer's reputation within Korea.
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Sean Shibe on Camino
20th Aug 2021
The Scottish guitarist talks to Katherine about today's Recording of the Week, which he describes as 'a profound spiritual journey'.
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Long Yu on The Song of the Earth
17th Aug 2021
The conductor of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra talks about his new recording, pairing Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with a newly-commissioned setting by Xiaogang Ye of the original Chinese poems on which it was based.
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Jan Lisiecki on Chopin
11th Aug 2021
The Canadian pianist, who made his first Chopin recordings in his early teens, talks to Katherine about his long-standing affinity with the composer's music and his new recording of the Nocturnes (released this Friday on Deutsche Grammophon).
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Francisco Fullana on Bach's Long Shadow
9th Aug 2021
The Majorcan violinist talks to David about his second solo album on Orchid Classics, featuring Bach's Partita No. 3 in E major plus music by Tárrega, Kreisler and Ysaÿe.
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Andrew Matthews-Owen on Taliesin's Songbook
5th Aug 2021
The pianist talks to Katherine about a new anthology of Welsh song, featuring music by composers including Morfydd Owen, Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, Grace Williams and Huw Watkins.
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Lan Shui on the Singapore Symphony Orchestra
3rd Aug 2021
The Conductor Laureate of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, recently succeeded by Hans Graf, looks back over the ensemble's history and his own long tenure at the helm.
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Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman on Beethoven and Scharwenka
27th Jul 2021
The piano duo talk about their new series of recordings of Beethoven's symphonies transcribed by Scharwenka, and discuss the unique musical changes that took place over Scharwenka's own lifetime.
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Laurence Equilbey on Louise Farrenc
26th Jul 2021
Following her release in early July of a recording of two symphonies by Louise Farrenc, conductor Laurence Equilbey digs further into the life and work of a unique French composer.
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Farrenc: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
Insula Orchestra, Laurence Equilbey
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Charles Richard-Hamelin on Chopin
22nd Jul 2021
In the wake of his new recording of the 24 Préludes Op. 28 on Analekta, the Canadian pianist talks to Katherine about why playing Chopin's music always 'feels like coming home' to him.
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Sonya Bach on Rachmaninov
15th Jul 2021
The Korean pianist talks about her new album of works by Rachmaninov for solo piano, featuring the Moments Musicaux Op.16 and the 1931 revision of the Sonata No.2.
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Bomsori Kim on Wieniawski and the inspiration of the stage
13th Jul 2021
The Korean violinist talks about her new album of works inspired by the stage, and her particular affinity for the works of the Polish violinist-composer Henryk Wieniawski.
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Isata Kanneh-Mason on Summertime
8th Jul 2021
The pianist talks to Katherine about her new all-American album (released tomorrow on Decca Classics), which features music by Barber, Coleridge-Taylor, Beach, Gershwin and Copland.
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Hideko Udagawa on Nostalgic Russia
6th Jul 2021
The violinist talks about her new release of Russian rarities for violin and piano with Petr Limonov, and reflects on her relationship with music from Russia.
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Randall Goosby on Roots
1st Jul 2021
The violinist talks to Katherine about his debut album on Decca, celebrating the influence which Black composers and performers have had on American music from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
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Kate Lindsey on Tiranno
29th Jun 2021
The American mezzo talks to Katherine about her recent album exploring baroque depictions of Nero (and the women surrounding him), which features music by Monteverdi, Handel, Alessandro Scarlatti and Bartolomeo Monari.
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Roxanna Panufnik on Heartfelt
26th Jun 2021
The composer talks about her new album, with works inspired by sources ranging from the trenches of World War I to contemporary Myanmar and even new milestones in veterinary science.
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Hervé Niquet on La flûte enchantée
24th Jun 2021
The conductor talks to Katherine about his recording of a new French-language version of Die Zauberflöte with Le Concert Spirituel, following a spectacular production at Versailles last year.
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Mathias Vidal (Tamino), Florie Valiquette (Pamina), Marc Scoffoni (Papageno), Lisa Mostin (La Reine de la Nuit), Tomislav Lavoie (Sarastro), Olivier Trommenschlager (Monostatos), Pauline Feracci (Papagena) Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
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Alexandra Whittingham on My European Journey
19th Jun 2021
The guitarist talks about her debut album, released recently on Delphian, which sees her explore European guitar repertoire from Spain to Denmark, via Austria-Hungary and England.
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Alexandra Whittingham (guitar)
