Latest News: Classical, Signum (label)
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Interview,
Will Todd - Lux et Veritas 7th October 2014
The composer tells David a little about his new disc of choral music with Tenebrae, out now on Signum Classics.
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Recording of the Week,
Edward Gardner conducts orchestral music by Janáček 29th September 2014
James listens to the first instalment in an exciting new series – Chandos’ survey of the orchestral works of Janáček, conducted by Edward Gardner.
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Interview,
Alessio Bax plays Beethoven 23rd September 2014
David talks to pianist Alessio Bax about his new Beethoven disc, which combines well-loved sonatas with fresh transcriptions by Bax himself of orchestral works.
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Interview,
Gabriel Jackson – Airplane Cantata 26th July 2014
David talks to British composer Gabriel Jackson about his new disc on Signum with the BBC Singers, featuring several new works including his Airplane Cantata.
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Interview,
James Rhodes - Five 17th June 2014
David talks to James Rhodes about his new disc of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Sgambati.
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Interview,
Julian Bliss on the art of transcription 5th June 2014
David talks to the young British clarinettist about his new disc on Signum Classics, which features works by Debussy, Françaix, Glinka, Milhaud & Prokofiev.
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Recording of the Week,
Russian Choral Music from Tenebrae 13th January 2014
Nigel Short directs his award-winning British vocal ensemble in a programme of ‘Russian Treasures’, including excerpts from Rachmaninov’s Vespers and little-known gems which are rarely performed outside Russia.
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Recording of the Week,
Little Britten 14th January 2013
Cellist Matthew Barley marks the centenary of the composer’s birth with a recital centring on the Third Cello Suite, whilst Edward Higginbottom and The Choir of New College Oxford bring a vital, pleasingly rough-round-the-edges approach that recalls Britten’s own children’s choirs to the scared choral music.
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Recording of the Week,
Mendelssohn's Elijah from McCreesh 27th August 2012
A super-sized, historically-aware account of Mendelssohn’s Old Testament oratorio (with Simon Keenlyside offering a nuanced portrayal of the irascible prophet) sets a new benchmark for this oft-recorded work, with an orchestra of almost 100 and a choir of over 300!
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Recording of the Week,
Two terrific Italian Renaissance reconstructions 18th June 2012
A new Venetian Coronation from Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort, and a reconstruction of a typical Italian Vespers programme from circa 1612 from Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini.
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Recording of the Week,
Berlioz's Grande Messe des Morts from Paul McCreesh 3rd October 2011
With a massed choir of English and Polish singers and an orchestra which deploys as many authentic nineteenth-century instruments as possible, McCreesh plays up not only the sound and fury of Berlioz’s super-sized Requiem but also the astonishing range of textures which the young composer summons.
