Classical Interviews
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Bryn Terfel on Dreams and Songs
18th Oct 2018
Katherine speaks to the great Welsh bass-baritone about his new album, which includes duets with Dame Emma Thompson, Joseph Calleja and Rob Brydon as well as the world premiere recording of Karl Jenkins's The Shepherd Poet of Passchendaele.
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Dreams and Songs
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
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The Calidore Quartet on 'Resilience'
11th Oct 2018
The members of the young American string quartet talk to David about their début recording, which features four quartets from composers experiencing a variety of personal and political traumas.
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Calidore String Quartet
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Stuart Skelton on Wagner
4th Oct 2018
The Australian tenor (currently singing Siegmund in the Royal Opera House's Ring Cycle) talks to Katherine about his career as a Wagnerian and his debut solo recording Shining Knight, recently released on ABC Classics.
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Sean Shibe on softLOUD
1st Oct 2018
Katherine talks to the award-winning young guitarist about his confrontational new album, which mixes seventeenth-century Scottish lute music with works by Steve Reich, Julia Wolfe and David Lang.
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Albina Shagimuratova and Daniela Barcellona on Semiramide
26th Sep 2018
Katherine talks to the Russian soprano and Italian mezzo who star as mother and estranged son on Sir Mark Elder's new, uncut recording of Rossini's great opera seria.
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Sir Thomas Allen on September Songs
24th Sep 2018
The veteran baritone talks to Katherine about his autumnal album of classics from The Great American Songbook, out now on Champs Hill Records and featuring soprano Lucy Crowe.
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September Songs
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone)
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Magdalena Kožená on French song
20th Sep 2018
The Czech mezzo talks to Katherine about recording Duparc with Robin Ticciati and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin for their new album Aimer et mourir, out tomorrow on Linn Records.
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Sakari Oramo on Langgaard
17th Sep 2018
The conductor of the Wiener Philharmoniker talks to David about his new album of works by the forgotten Danish Romantic composer Rued Langgaard.
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Sir Simon Rattle on Wonderful Town
12th Sep 2018
Watch our exclusive video-interview with the London Symphony Orchestra's Music Director about their live recording of Bernstein's raucous paean to The City That Never Sleeps, out now on the orchestra's own label.
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Bernstein: Wonderful Town
Danielle de Niese (Eileen), Alysha Umphress (Ruth), Nathan Gunn (Bob Baker), Duncan Rock (Wreck), David Butt Philip (Lonigan), Ashley Riches (Guide/First Editor/Frank) London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
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Bertrand Chamayou on Saint-Saëns
10th Sep 2018
The French pianist talks to Katherine about his new recording of the Second and Fifth Piano Concertos and a selection of the composer's lesser-known solo piano works, released on Friday on Erato.
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Roxanna Panufnik on 'Celestial Bird'
3rd Sep 2018
David talks to composer Roxanna Panufnik about her forthcoming collection of eclectic vocal works performed by Ex Cathedra and Milapfest under Jeffrey Skidmore.
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Richard Bonynge on Edward J. Loder
28th Aug 2018
The veteran operatic conductor talks to Katherine about the world premiere recording of the Bath-born composer's Gothic melodrama Raymond and Agnes, out now on Retrospect Opera.
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Loder: Raymond & Agnes
Majella Cullagh (Agnes), Mark Milhofer (Raymond), Andrew Greenan (Baron), Carolyn Dobbin (Madelina), Quentin Hayes (Antoni), Alessandro Fisher (Theodore), Alexander Robin Baker (Francesco) Retrospect Opera Chorus, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Richard Bonynge
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Scott Metcalfe on The Peterhouse Part-Books
20th Aug 2018
David talks to the founder and artistic director of Renaissance vocal ensemble Blue Heron about the culmination of his project to record lost pre-Reformation choral works from the Peterhouse Partbooks.
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Christian Lindberg on Stenhammar
14th Aug 2018
The Swedish conductor talks to David about his new recording of Stenhammar's mighty Second Symphony with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.
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Costantino Mastroprimiano on Hummel
7th Aug 2018
The pianist talks to David about his recently-completed set of sonatas by the great Central European composer.
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Antonio Pappano on Bernstein
6th Aug 2018
Ahead of the Bernstein centenary later this month, the conductor talks to Katherine about recording his three symphonies with the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (out this Friday on Warner Classics).
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Allan Clayton on Brett Dean's Hamlet
26th Jul 2018
Following on from our interview with the composer earlier this week, Katherine talks to the English tenor about bringing this new incarnation of Shakespeare's 'sweet prince' to life.
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Brett Dean: Hamlet (DVD)
Allan Clayton (Hamlet), Sarah Connolly (Gertrude), Barbara Hannigan (Ophelia), Rod Gilfry (Claudius), Kim Begley (Polonius), John Tomlinson (Ghost/Grave-Digger/Player-King), Jacques Imbrailo (Horatio) London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski
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Brett Dean on Hamlet
23rd Jul 2018
The Australian composer talks to Katherine about the genesis of his acclaimed 2017 Shakespearean opera, filmed at Glyndebourne last summer and now available on DVD and Blu-ray from Opus Arte.
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Brett Dean: Hamlet (DVD)
Allan Clayton (Hamlet), Sarah Connolly (Gertrude), Barbara Hannigan (Ophelia), Rod Gilfry (Claudius), Kim Begley (Polonius), John Tomlinson (Ghost/Grave-Digger/Player-King), Jacques Imbrailo (Horatio) London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski
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Mark Dourish on De Profundis
19th Jul 2018
The founder and director of Cambridge-based early music specialists De Profundis talks about the group's second album of Renaissance treasures for lower voices, released at the end of June on Hyperion.
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Jan Bartoš on Beethoven
18th Jul 2018
The Czech pianist shares his thoughts on his new Beethoven album, out now on Supraphon.
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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
Jan Bartoš (piano)
