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Episode 44: Take me to your Lieder - Schubert in English with Roderick Williams, Rowan Pierce and Christopher Glynn 18th November 2023
Baritone, soprano and pianist offer their perspectives on the latest instalment in Signum Classics's series, which features Jeremy Sams's translations of Schubert Lieder.
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Episode 43: Sound the trombone! Onyx Brass at 30 with Amos Miller 28th October 2023
As "the classiest brass ensemble in Britain" turns 30, Onyx Brass's trombonist Amos Miller looks back over three decades of brass quintet music-making, with an eye on exploring contemporary repertoire. We discuss the group's latest album, 'The sun is free to flow with the sea', and some of the works featured on it, as well as touching on questions of diversity in classical music.
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Episode 42: A Great Musical Dett - Choral Music by Black Composers with Dr Marques Garrett 23rd September 2023
A discussion of the OUP's recently-published collection of sacred and secular choral works by Black composers, with its editor Dr Marques Garrett - taking in Vicente Lusitano, Undine Smith Moore, R Nathaniel Dett (Dr Garrett's own particular labour of love) and more.
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Episode 41: Standing out from the Crowd - Arthur Bliss with Paul Spicer 13th August 2023
Author Paul Spicer recently joined us at our store in Leamington Spa to discuss his new biography of Arthur Bliss, in conversation with Andrew Burn, chairman of The Bliss Trust.
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Episode 40: A Russian Soul in Exile - Sergei Rachmaninoff with Fiona Maddocks 6th August 2023
Sergei Rachmaninoff's period of exile from Russia is discussed with the author of a highly enjoyable new book 'Goodbye Russia', Fiona Maddocks.
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Episode 39: A Mercury Legend - Antal Doráti with Rob Cowan and Thomas Fine 23rd July 2023
The Mono and Stereo recordings made by Antal Doráti with the Minnesota Orchestra are discussed with Rob Cowan and the executive producer of the new box sets, and son of the original producers, Thomas Fine.
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Episode 38: Belle de nuit – Chatting to Emmanuel Despax about 'Après un rêve' 8th July 2023
The pianist discusses his new album, weaving together a nocturnal theme, a deeply personal poetic connection, and the French piano repertoire of the 'belle époque'.
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Episode 37: Brahms In The Time Machine – Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem with Lionel Meunier 24th June 2023
Founder and director of early music ensemble Vox Luminis talks about his hunt for Baroque-era precursors to Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem.
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Episode 36: I've Started, So I'll Finish – A Return to Mozart with Robert Levin 22nd April 2023
Pianist, conductor, musicologist and Mozart reconstructionist Robert Levin talks about the resumption of his complete survey of Mozart's works for keyboard and orchestra.
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Episode 35: Tom & Will (& Jimmy & Roddy) – Tudor Anniversaries with Fretwork and The King's Singers 2nd April 2023
Patrick Dunachie of The King's Singers and Richard Boothby of Fretwork talk about the madrigals and instrumental music of two Tudor titans.
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Episode 34: Golden Oldies - The Brodsky Quartet at 50 26th March 2023
Katherine is joined by cellist Jacqueline Thomas and viola-player Paul Cassidy for a whistle-stop tour through the quartet's first fifty years - including their landmark Shostakovich cycle in the 1990s and collaborations with Issey Miyake, Sting, Elvis Costello & Sir Paul McCartney
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Episode 33: Four with Scores - Quartet with Leah Broad 5th March 2023
Paul is guided through the lives, times and music of four extraordinary female composers by the author of a new music biography 'Quartet', Dr Leah Broad.
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Episode 32: Music for Albion - Vaughan Williams with John Francis 16th October 2022
John Francis from the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society joins Paul to guide him through the life and music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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Episode 31: Mysticism, Modernism and Music - Scriabin with Marina Frolova-Walker 9th October 2022
Paul is joined by Cambridge Russian music Professor Marina Frolova-Walker to discuss 150 years of Alexander Scriabin, from his beginnings as a frustrated virtuoso to his explorations in radical mysticism.
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Episode 30: Music from the Golden Age of Hollywood with John Wilson 15th September 2022
James is joined by conductor John Wilson for a look back at some of his recordings with Sinfonia of London, followed by an in-depth chat about their latest album of Golden Age film music, Hollywood Soundstage.
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Episode 29: Eine kleine Havanamusik with Sarah Willis 5th September 2022
Horn-player Sarah Willis discusses the second of her Cuban-inspired albums, and the connections between Mozart and Latin American dance.
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Episode 28: Karel Ančerl Live with Rob Cowan and Matouš Vlčinský 27th February 2022
The live recordings by the great Czech conductor Karel Ančerl, and Bohemian musical culture are explored by Rob Cowan and Matouš Vlčinský from Supraphon records.
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Episode 27: A Life in Notes - The Art of Music Biography 13th February 2022
This week three eminent music biographers join Paul for a round-table discussion on the art of writing a music biography.
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Episode 26: On the Fiddle with Charlotte Gardner 12th December 2021
This week we are joined by writer Charlotte Gardner to discuss changing styles of violin-playing over the past hundred years.
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Episode 25: The Story of Presto Music with Chris O'Reilly 14th November 2021
To celebrate Presto Music's double anniversary we invited our very own Chris O'Reilly onto the show to talk about how it grew from a small CD shop in Leamington Spa to become one of the global leaders in online music retail.
