Latest News: Classical, Signum (label)
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Interview,
Roxanna Panufnik on 'Celestial Bird' 3rd September 2018David 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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Interview,
Paweł Łukaszewski on Daylight Declines 28th May 2018The eminent Polish composer talks to David about Tenebrae's forthcoming album featuring a selection of his sacred choral compositions.
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Interview,
Ian Page on Mozart in London 23rd April 2018The conductor talks to Katherine about his new recording exploring the music which the young composer is likely to have encountered on his visit to the city in the mid-1760s.
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Interview,
Hugo Ticciati on White Light 12th April 2018The violinist talks to Katherine about the genesis of his ensemble O/Modernt and their debut recording, featuring music from Arvo Pärt to the Beatles.
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Interview,
Graham Fitkin on the string quartet 13th December 2017The British composer talks to Katherine about his complete works in this genre, which have recently been recorded by the Sacconi Quartet on Signum.
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Interview,
Vladimir Ashkenazy on Rachmaninov and the Philharmonia 12th September 2017As the first instalment of a new symphonic cycle is released on Signum, the great pianist and conductor talks to Katherine about a composer and orchestra which have played a seminal role in his career.
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Interview,
Chi-chi Nwanoku on Chineke!'s debut recording 15th August 2017David talks to the orchestra's founder about their first album, and about the relationship between European and non-European musical styles in Dvorak's famous 'New World' Symphony.
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Interview,
Peter Donohoe on Shostakovich 17th May 2017Peter Donohoe talks to David about his new recording of Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues.
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Recording of the Week,
Paul McCreesh conducts Haydn's The Seasons 24th March 2017Katherine listens to Paul McCreesh's boisterous and vivid recording of Haydn's The Seasons, with the Gabrieli Consort and Players and the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra and Choir.
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Interview,
Paul McCreesh on Haydn's The Seasons 16th March 2017David talks to the conductor about his new super-sized recording of Haydn's pastoral oratorio with the Gabrieli Consort and Wrocław Baroque Orchestra.
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Interview,
Gabriel Crouch on music from the time of Queen Mary 15th February 2017David talks to the director of choral ensemble Gallicantus about their latest album, the fascinatingly-titled 'Queen Mary's Big Belly'.
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Interview,
The King's Singers at Christmas 12th December 2016David talks to Jonathan Howard of the King's Singers about their new Christmas album.
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Interview,
Nigel Short on British part songs 6th October 2016David talks to Tenebrae's founder conductor about the award-winning choir's new disc of British part-songs.
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Interview,
Introducing Aksel Rykkvin 29th August 2016Katherine talks to the Norwegian treble about his charming first recital disc, out on Friday on Signum.
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Interview,
Christoph von Dohnányi on Schubert 9 16th June 2016Katherine talks to the veteran German conductor about his new live recording of 'The Great' with the Philharmonia Orchestra, out on Signum on Friday.
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Interview,
Jonathan Harvey – 'Deo' 4th May 2016David talks to Andrew Nethsingha of St John's Cambridge about his new disc of choral works by Jonathan Harvey.
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Interview,
Handel at Vauxhall 11th April 2016David talks to conductor Bridget Cunningham about the latest intriguing instalment in her Handel series.
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Recording of the Week,
David Goode performs organ works by J.S. Bach 5th February 2016David listens to the first volume of David Goode's complete Bach organ series, featuring the mighty Toccata and Fugue in D minor and more.
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Interview,
Ian Venables 24th August 2015In the wake of his sixtieth birthday last month, Katherine talks to the British composer about his latest disc 'The Song of the Severn', out now on Signum.
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Interview,
Paul McCreesh on Handel’s 'L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato' 8th May 2015David talks to the conductor about Handel's tripartite work, which weighs up the appeals of the hedonistic and the intellectual lifestyles in a kind of musical argument.