Latest News: Classical, Naxos (label)
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Interview,
Marin Alsop on John Adams 8th April 2024The conductor talks about her latest album on Naxos of three virtuosic orchestral pieces by John Adams with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, including the premiere recording of a work dedicated to her.
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Interview,
Madeleine Mitchell on Violin Conversations 26th June 2023The violinist discusses her new album featuring works by composers including Thea Musgrave, Errollyn Wallen, Howard Blake and the late Joseph Horovitz.
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Interview,
Matthew Schellhorn on the piano music of Herbert Howells 26th January 2023The pianist talks about his second volume of piano works by Howells, consisting almost entirely of world premiere recordings.
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Interview,
Julian Perkins on Stephen Dodgson 11th March 2021The conductor talks to Katherine about the world première recording of the 1979 chamber-opera Margaret Catchpole, which tells the story of a Suffolk servant-girl who was deported to Australia for stealing a horse in the late eighteenth century.
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Interview,
Francis Pott on 'Word' 8th July 2020Composer Francis Pott talks about his new album of larger-scale choral works with Oxford choir Commotio, released on Naxos this Friday.
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Interview,
Septura on Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker 12th December 2019David talks to Septura's Matthew Knight and Simon Cox about their newly-released recording of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, arranged for brass septet and narrated by Derek Jacobi.
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Recording of the Week,
2019 Christmas Selections 29th November 2019David picks out three of this year's Christmas releases, featuring Septura (with guest appearance from Derek Jacobi), Stile Antico, and the late Stephen Cleobury in his valedictory service at the helm of Carols from King's.
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Recording of the Week,
Beethoven Symphonies from Ádám Fischer and the Danish Chamber Orchestra 19th July 2019Ádám Fischer conducts the Danish Chamber Orchestra in frequently thrilling, occasionally controversial, but always fascinating performances of Beethoven's symphonies.
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Interview,
Madeleine Mitchell on Grace Williams 18th March 2019Violinist Madeleine Mitchell talks to David about her new album showcasing the rarely-heard works of the Welsh composer Grace Williams.
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Interview,
Boris Giltburg on Liszt 16th January 2019David talks to the Russian-born Israeli pianist about his recording of the Études d'exécution transcendante, released last Friday on Naxos.
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Interview,
Jaap van Zweden on the Hong Kong Philharmonic's Ring Cycle 13th November 2018As the final instalment of the cycle on Naxos is released, the conductor talks to Katherine about the project's origins, and the challenges and rewards of tackling Wagner's epic with an orchestra whose primary home is the concert-hall rather than the opera-house.
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Interview,
Clare Howick on British violin music 18th January 2018The violinist talks to Katherine about her world premiere recordings of concertos by Gordon Jacob, Kenneth Leighton and Paul Patterson.
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Interview,
Bob Chilcott on All Good Things 11th September 2017David talks to composer Bob Chilcott about his new album of jazz-infused choral works with Oxford chamber choir Commotio, released last week.
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Interview,
Boris Giltburg on Rachmaninov 7th September 2017The Russian-born Israeli pianist talks to Katherine about his recording of the Second Piano Concerto, out tomorrow on Naxos.
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Recording of the Week,
Matthias Goerne sings Wotan in Wagner's Die Walküre 11th November 2016Katherine listens to the next instalment in Naxos's Ring Cycle, conducted by Jaap van Zweden.
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Interview,
Henning Kraggerud on Mozart 15th August 2016The violinist talks to David about his new Mozart recording, and his views on the relationship between composer and performance.
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Interview,
Gabriel Jackson on Vox Clara 9th August 2016David talks to British composer about his new disc on Regent with the Choir of Truro Cathedral, including the first recording of Missa Triueriensis.
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Interview,
Contemporary Song Round-Up 13th December 2014David talks to pianist Andrew Matthews-Owen about three new discs of British song, including works by Alun Hoddinott, Charlotte Bray and Jonathan Dove.
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Recording of the Week,
Vasily Petrenko completes his cycle of Shostakovich symphonies 22nd September 2014David listens to the final instalment in Vasily Petrenko's Shostakovich symphony cycle with the RLPO, the dark and angry No. 13 in B flat minor ('Babi Yar').
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Recording of the Week,
Christmas Carols from Bob Chilcott and others 9th December 2013Commotio bring their ‘clean, unfussy sound and pristine intonation’ to the former King’s Singer’s carols - plus Music for Advent from The Choir of Clare College Cambridge.