Latest News: Classical, Linn (label)
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Recording of the Week,
Richard Egarr conducts Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore 20th May 2016Katherine enjoys a new recording of a well-loved light-opera classic, with Richard Egarr and Scottish Opera (and featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor!)
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Interview,
Richard Egarr on HMS Pinafore 19th May 2016The conductor and harpsichordist talks to Katherine about his new, historically-informed recording of Gilbert & Sullivan on Linn.
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Recording of the Week,
Robin Ticciati conducts Haydn Symphonies 18th September 2015James listens to Robin Ticciati's new disc of Haydn symphonies with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
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Interview,
Robin Ticciati conducts Schumann 19th September 2014David talks to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's young conductor about his complete set of Schumann symphonies, out on Monday on Linn Records.
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Interview,
John Butt on Mozart's Requiem 3rd April 2014The Dunedin Consort's director discusses the challenges of recreating the first performance of Mozart's enigmatic final work.
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Recording of the Week,
Christmas Oratorios from Bach, Berlioz, and Britten 2nd December 2013The Christmas Oratorio from Trinity College Cambridge, Saint Nicolas from Cambridge University Music Society (with Andrew Kennedy in the title-role), and L’Enfance du Christ from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Robin Ticciati.
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Recording of the Week,
Byrd’s Complete Consort Music 13th June 2011The Gramophone Award-winning viol consort Phantasm brings sweetness and sensuality to the English composer’s fantasias, In Nomines and pavans and galliards on Linn Records.
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Recording of the Week,
Arne: Artaxerxes 24th January 2011Ian Page and the Classical Opera Company resurrect the British composer’s ornate depiction of skulduggery in Ancient Persia, premiered in London in 1762, with Christopher Ainslie in the title-role and Elizabeth Watts as his firebrand sister.
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Recording of the Week,
Mozart Symphonies from Mackerras - Volume 2 15th March 2010The much-anticipated second volume of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Mozart series with their conductor laureate features joyous and life-enhancing accounts of Nos. 29, 31, 32, 35 and 46.
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Recording of the Week,
Late Mozart Symphonies 18th February 2008