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Episode 48: Doubling Brahms - Busoni and his violin concerto with Francesca Dego 24th February 2024The violinist talks about her new recording of violin concertos by Brahms and Busoni on Chandos - explaining why she was drawn to the Italian composer's music, how his violin concerto reveals his profound admiration for Brahms's, and what happens when a wife-and-husband musician couple take to the stage together.
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Episode 47: An Invitation to the Dance – Storming the ‘barricades mystérieuses’ with Martin James Bartlett 27th January 2024The pianist talks about his trio of recordings for Warner Classics, explains why his latest album mercifully didn’t require him to get his own feet moving - well, not much, anyway - and ponders the role of dance-inspired music within the broader classical repertoire.
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Episode 46: La Divina - Rob Cowan and Alain Lanceron on the centenary of Maria Callas's birth 31st December 2023Host Rob Cowan is joined by the President of Warner Classics & Erato, Alain Lanceron, to discuss La Divina’s legacy on record – picking out some highlights from her vast discography on his label along the way…
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Episode 45: Tudor Wild Child - Thomas Weelkes with Dr Katie Bank 2nd December 2023Music historian and 'choir geek extraordinaire' Dr Katie Bank sorts fact from fiction in a look at the life of notorious Tudor troublemaker Thomas Weelkes, who along with William Byrd sees the four hundredth anniversary of his death fall this year.
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Episode 44: Take me to your Lieder - Schubert in English with Roderick Williams, Rowan Pierce and Christopher Glynn 18th November 2023Baritone, 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 2023As "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 2023A 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 2023Author 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 2023Sergei 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 2023The 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 2023The 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 2023Founder 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 2023Pianist, 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 2023Patrick 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 2023Katherine 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 2023Paul 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 2022John 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 2022Paul 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 2022James 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 2022Horn-player Sarah Willis discusses the second of her Cuban-inspired albums, and the connections between Mozart and Latin American dance.