Latest News: Classical, Pentatone (label)
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Interview,
Sean Shibe on Camino 20th August 2021The Scottish guitarist talks to Katherine about today's Recording of the Week, which he describes as 'a profound spiritual journey'.
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Interview,
Anna Lucia Richter on Il Delirio della Passione 24th May 2021The German soprano talks about her recent all-Monteverdi album with Luca Pianca and Ensemble Claudiana, and discusses the beginning of a new chapter in her vocal career.
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Recording of the Week,
Ombra Compagna from Lisette Oropesa 7th May 2021The Cuban-American soprano delivers drama and delicacy in equal measure on this collection of Mozart concert arias, with Il Pomo d'Oro on scintillating form under Antonello Manacorda.
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Interview,
Lisette Oropesa on Mozart 7th May 2021The Cuban-American soprano talks to David about today's Recording of the Week, Ombra compagna.
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Interview,
Ana de la Vega on Bach Unbuttoned 6th May 2021The Australian flautist talks about her new album of new perspectives on Bach, inspired by an intriguing detail on one of the most famous statues erected to him.
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Recording of the Week,
Violins of Hope 12th February 2021Instruments previously owned by Holocaust survivors and restored by the Weinstein family sing with a special power in Schubert, Mendelssohn, and a new work by Jake Heggie which tells their stories.
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Interview,
Jamie Barton and Jake Heggie on Unexpected Shadows 24th September 2020The American mezzo and composer talk to Katherine about their new album on Pentatone (featuring Heggie's song-cycles The Work at Hand, Iconic Legacies and Statuesque), their long-standing friendship, and the women who've inspired them both.
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Recording of the Week,
Shostakovich from Kirill Karabits, Oleg Tsibulko and the Russian National Orchestra 17th July 2020A new recording of Shostakovich's complex 'Babi Yar' symphony with bass Oleg Tsibulko gets to the heart of a work that's often seen as all politics and no emotion.
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Interview,
Piotr Beczała on Verismo 9th July 2020The Polish tenor talks to Katherine about Vincerò!, his debut recording on Pentatone, featuring arias by Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano and Cilea.
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Recording of the Week,
Vincerò! Piotr Beczała sings Verismo 15th May 2020The Polish tenor is at the top of his considerable game in arias by Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Cilea and Giordano.
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Recording of the Week,
Soirée from Magdalena Kožená and friends 13th September 2019The Czech mezzo is joined by her husband and assorted colleagues for a programme of songs for voice and chamber ensemble by Ravel, Brahms, Stravinsky, Chausson, Strauss, Dvořák and Janáček.
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Recording of the Week,
Winterreise from Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès 23rd August 2019Fifteen years on from his first audio recording of the work, the British tenor retraces Schubert’s 'Winter Journey' with a new companion in an unsettling, unsentimentalised interpretation that’s underpinned by years of scholarship on both sides.
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Recording of the Week,
Handel's Concerti Grossi Op. 6 from the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin 26th July 2019David enjoys sparkling accounts of Handel's sunny, Italianate concerti grossi Op. 6 from Bernhard Forck and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.
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Interview,
Michael Fabiano on Donizetti and Verdi 23rd May 2019The charismatic American tenor talks to Katherine about his debut solo recording on Pentatone, centring on two composers who have played a pivotal role in his career to date.
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Interview,
Tamara Stefanovich on Influences 28th March 2019The pianist talks to Katherine about her debut recording on Pentatone, featuring music by JS Bach, Bartók, Ives and Messiaen.
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Recording of the Week,
Music by Haydn and Schoenberg from cellist Alisa Weilerstein 10th August 2018James listens to energetic, vital accounts of Haydn's two cello concertos from Alisa Weilerstein, coupled with an expressively radiant performance of Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht.
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Interview,
Pierre-Laurent Aimard on Messiaen's birds 24th May 2018The French pianist talks to Katherine about his relationship with Catalogue d'oiseaux, which he recently recorded for Pentatone.
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Interview,
Jake Heggie on It's A Wonderful Life 16th January 2018The American composer talks to Katherine about his opera based on Frank Capra's classic 1946 film, released on Pentatone at the end of last year.
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Interview,
John Corigliano - The Ghosts of Versailles 27th April 2016Katherine talks to the American composer about his 'grand opera buffa', which has just been released on CD for the first time by Pentatone.
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Recording of the Week,
Marek Janowski conducts Strauss's Symphonia Domestica 15th June 2015James listens to Richard Strauss's rarely heard tone-poem, performed by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Marek Janowski.