Latest News: Classical, Channel (label)
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Interview,
Rachel Podger and Chad Kelly on reimagining Bach's Goldberg Variations 4th December 2023The violinist and composer share their thoughts on adapting Bach's immortal set of keyboard variations for Baroque instrumental ensemble.
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Interview,
Rachel Podger on Tutta Sola 22nd November 2022The violinist talks about her new album exploring the ancestry of Bach's works for unaccompanied violin, with works from Tartini, Matteis, Westhoff and Vilsmayr.
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Recording of the Week,
Beethoven violin sonatas from Rachel Podger and Christopher Glynn 25th March 2022Three snapshots from the beginning, middle and end of Beethoven's career trace his development of the violin sonata form from its Classical roots into new directions.
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Recording of the Week,
A Mozart postscript from Rachel Podger 26th March 2021Rachel Podger and Christopher Glynn bring to life a selection of musicologist Timothy Jones’s thoughtful completions of fragmentary Mozart works, offering a variety of plausible perspectives on what might have been.
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Interview,
Jared Sacks on Channel Classics 19th October 2020To mark the Dutch independent label's thirtieth anniversary, its founder reflects on how the story started and 'the joy of creating recordings'.
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Interview,
Ning Feng on Virtuosismo 9th October 2019The Chinese violinist shares his thoughts on balancing virtuosity and lyricism in two tremendously demanding concertos by Paganini and Vieuxtemps, out now on Channel Classics and one of Katherine's personal picks from the September releases.
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Interview,
Rosanne Philippens on Insight 18th July 2019The violinist discusses her recent album of solo works by Biber, Bach, Enescu and Ysaÿe, released on Channel Classics in late April and curated in response to audience feedback from a European recital tour.
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Interview,
Rachel Podger on Bach's Cello Suites 9th May 2019The violinist talks to David about her new album, which sees her perform JS Bach's popular cello suites on the violin.
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Recording of the Week,
Rachel Podger plays the Bach Cello Suites 26th April 2019The baroque violinist's own transcriptions of one of the pinnacles of the cello repertoire have an integrity and intelligence that's entirely convincing on its own terms, and the music never stops dancing.
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Interview,
Rachel Podger on The Four Seasons 21st April 2018The violinist, whose previous recordings of Vivaldi have won widespread critical acclaim, talks to Katherine about taking on the 'Red Priest''s most popular work.
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Recording of the Week,
Vivaldi's Four Seasons from Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque 13th April 2018The British violinist breathes new life into the most popular of baroque violin concerti with these vivid one-per-part accounts which exude wit and affection.
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Interview,
Thomas Hampson on Tides of Life 23rd February 2017Katherine talks to the American baritone about his new disc of arrangements of lieder by Brahms, Schubert and Wolf.
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Recording of the Week,
Thomas Hampson sings Lieder arranged for baritone and string orchestra 17th February 2017Katherine listens to 'Tides of Life', featuring a selection of Romantic Lieder in beautiful new string arrangements.
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Recording of the Week,
Iván Fischer conducts music by Tchaikovsky and Borodin 23rd September 2016David listens to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra's powerful account of Tchaikovsky's tragic masterpiece.
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Interview,
Florilegium at 25 11th August 2016David talks Telemann and Bach with Florilegium's artistic director, Ashley Solomon.
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Recording of the Week,
Mahler from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra 18th May 2015David listens to Iván Fischer's new account of Mahler's elegiac Ninth Symphony, with the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
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Recording of the Week,
Violin music by Bach and Vivaldi from Gil Shaham and Rachel Podger 9th March 2015David listens to two new albums of violin music - Vivaldi concertos from Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque, and Bach solo sonatas and partitas from Gil Shaham.
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Recording of the Week,
Iván Fischer conducts Brahms 15th December 2014David listens to Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra's new recording of Brahms's Second Symphony.
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Recording of the Week,
Bruckner Symphonies from Claudio Abbado and Iván Fischer 7th July 2014James enjoys a double-bill of Bruckner symphonies - No. 9 from Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, and the Budapest Festival Orchestra's account of No. 7 under Iván Fischer.
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Recording of the Week,
Wagner from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra 24th June 2013Wonderfully balanced and beautifully characterised accounts of the Overture to Die Meistersinger, the Siegfried Idyll and three excerpts from Götterdämmerung, including an Immolation Scene of laser-sharp accuracy and thrilling power from Petra Lang.