Latest News: Classical, Naive (label)
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Recording of the Week,
Vivaldi's Dorilla in Tempe from Diego Fasolis and I Barocchisti 22nd December 2017Katherine welcomes back Naïve's Vivaldi Edition, which returns today with an effervescent account of the "Red Priest"'s pastoral pasticcio from the 1730s.
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Interview,
Susan Orlando on Naïve's Vivaldi Edition 19th December 2017Katherine talks to one of the driving forces behind the project, which resumes this month with Dorilla in Tempe.
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Interview,
Bach on the Marimba: Trio SR9 18th February 2016David talks to Trio SR9 about their new collection of Bach arrangements for one, two and three marimbas.
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Interview,
Sandrine Piau - Desperate Heroines 1st October 2014Katherine talks to the French soprano about her new disc of Mozart arias, out yesterday on Naive.
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Interview,
Franco Fagioli on Porpora 20th September 2014Katherine talks to the virtuoso Argentine countertenor about his remarkable voice and his new album of arias by the great Neapolitan singing-teacher and composer Nicola Porpora.
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Recording of the Week,
Joyce DiDonato sings bel canto arias 25th August 2014Katherine listens to Joyce DiDonato's Stella di Napoli, which explores the Neapolitan school of bel canto opera arias.
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Interview,
Rinaldo Alessandrini 21st August 2014David asks Rinaldo Alessandrini about his new imagined Vespers for San Marco – and picks up some tips on eating like a Renaissance Venetian too!
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Interview,
Chad Hoopes plays Adams and Mendelssohn 15th May 2014Young American violinist Chad Hoopes talks to David about his latest disc of violin concerti by Mendelssohn and Adams.
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Recording of the Week,
Presto Personal Favourites from 2013 23rd December 2013Schubert from the Pavel Haas Quartet, Pierre-Louis Dietsch’s opera on The Flying Dutchman, two Turnage premieres, and masses by Cipriano de Rore.
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Recording of the Week,
L’Olimpiade: The Opera 23rd July 2012The Venice Baroque Orchestra and a fine line-up of singers present a pasticcio setting of a libretto by Metastasio, with contributions from composers including Caldara, Vivaldi, Galuppi, Hasse and Paisiello.
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Recording of the Week,
Julia Lezhneva sings Rossini 18th April 2011Katherine enjoys a hugely promising debut solo album from the Russian soprano (who was just nineteen when the recording was made), including arias from La cenerentola, La donna del lago and Guillaume Tell with Marc Minkowski and Sinfonia Varsovia.
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Recording of the Week,
Vivaldi Operas - Ottone in Villa and Ercole 6th December 2010Ercole sul Termodonte (starring Joyce DiDonato, Diana Damrau and Rolando Villazón) from Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante, and Ottone in Villa (with Sonia Prina in the title-role) from Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini.