Latest News: Classical, Erato (label)
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Interview,
Bertrand Chamayou on Good Night! 9th December 2020The French pianist talks to Katherine about his beguiling collection of lullabies by composers including Lyapunov, Liszt, Alkan and Mel Bonis, released in October on Erato.
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Recording of the Week,
Amici e Rivali - Michael Spyres and Lawrence Brownlee 13th November 2020The two American tenors trade vocal fireworks in a thrilling all-Rossini programme which pays homage to Andrea Nozzari and Giovanni David, who created major roles in several of the composer's operas for Naples.
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Interview,
Lawrence Brownlee on Rossini 13th November 2020The American tenor talks to Katherine about today's Recording of the Week Amici e Rivali, which sees him exploring friendship and rivalry in Rossini's Neapolitan operas with his compatriot Michael Spyres.
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Interview,
Antonio Pappano on Donizetti's Queens 21st October 2020The conductor talks to Katherine about recording the final scenes of Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena and Roberto Devereux with Diana Damrau and the Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for Warner Classics.
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Recording of the Week,
Bertrand Chamayou and Alexandre Kantorow 16th October 2020Two contrasting recitals from award-winning French pianists - one fuelled by melatonin, the other by adrenaline.
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Recording of the Week,
Barricades from Jean Rondeau and Thomas Dunford 5th June 2020David enjoys the début recording of Jean Rondeau and Thomas Dunford's harpsichord-lute duo, featuring a selection of French Baroque treasures with vocal cameos from Marc Mauillon and Lea Desandre.
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Recording of the Week,
Handel's Agrippina starring Joyce DiDonato 31st January 2020The American mezzo sings the title role of the scheming Roman matriarch in a starrily-cast recording of Handel's early opera with Il Pomo d'Oro, conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev.
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Recording of the Week,
Franck and Chopin from Gautier Capuçon and Yuja Wang 13th December 2019The two acclaimed soloists come together in a dazzling duo, with the rich warmth of Franck's Cello Sonata in A major sharply offset against the angst-wracked soul-searching of Chopin's in G minor.
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Recording of the Week,
Philippe Jaroussky sings Cavalli 8th March 2019The French countertenor leads Artaserse in a kaleidoscopic survey of the many and varied operas by the seventeenth-century Italian composer, shot through with the spirit of Venetian carnival.
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Video Interview,
John Nelson on Berlioz 7th March 2019Ahead of his performance and recording of the Grande Messe des Morts at St Paul's Cathedral tomorrow evening to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer's death, the American conductor talks to Katherine about his fifty-year relationship with music which 'lit something up in me that's remained all my life'.
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Recording of the Week,
Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch from Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau and Helmut Deutsch 11th January 2019The German tenor, soprano and pianist have a ball with Wolf's 46 miniatures on love, loss and fickleness, recorded live in concert in Essen last year.
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Video Interview,
Thibaut Garcia on Bach Inspirations 1st November 2018The French guitarist talks to Katherine about his new album of Bach-influenced works by Villa-Lobos, Tansman, Barrios Mangoré and Gounod - as well as transcriptions of the composer's own Chaconne and two of his best-known chorales.
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Interview,
Bertrand Chamayou on Saint-Saëns 10th September 2018The 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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Recording of the Week,
Philippe Jaroussky sings Gluck's Orfeo 25th May 2018The French countertenor placates the Furies with singing of celestial purity on this world premiere recording of the 1774 Neapolitan version of Gluck's most popular opera.
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Recording of the Week,
Bartók's Violin Concertos from Renaud Capuçon 23rd March 2018Renaud Capuçon performs Bartók's two violin concertos, accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra under conductor François-Xavier Roth.
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Interview,
Gautier Capuçon on Intuition 21st February 2018The French cellist talks to Katherine about his new album of music by Massenet, Saint-Saëns, Piazzolla, Sollima and more.
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Recording of the Week,
John Nelson conducts Les Troyens 24th November 2017Joyce DiDonato and Michael Spyres triumph as the doomed lovers in Berlioz's Classical epic, recorded live in Strasbourg earlier this year.
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Interview,
Olivier Latry on 'Voyages' 7th February 2017The great French organist talks to David about his new recording of transcriptions on the organ of the Paris Philharmonie.
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Recording of the Week,
Diana Damrau sings in Bizet's The Pearl Fishers from the Met 13th January 2017Katherine enjoys a new staging of Bizet's glorious exotic opera, starring Diana Damrau, Matthew Polenzani and Mariusz Kwiecien.
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Interview,
Joyce DiDonato on 'In War and Peace' 3rd November 2016The great American mezzo answers our questions, on camera, about her 'most personal project to date'.