Latest News: Classical, Interview
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Owain Park on performing and dramatising Byrd's sacred music 17th July 2023The Artistic Director of The Gesualdo Six talks about the group's new anniversary-year album of Byrd, and their exciting new staged performance based around the music of Catholicism-in-hiding during England's Tudor era.
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Iestyn Morris on Romances 13th July 2023The countertenor talks about his new recording of Russian Romances with pianist Nigel Foster on Quartz Records.
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Kirill Troussov on his EP of violin duos with Julia Fischer 11th July 2023The violinist discusses his recently-released EP, pairing Shostakovich's Five Pieces for Two Violins & Piano with Prokofiev's Sonata for Two Violins.
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Karim Sulayman on Broken Branches 5th July 2023Tenor Karim Sulayman talks about his recently-released eclectic album of works for guitar and voice with Sean Shibe.
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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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Anna Bonitatibus on Monologues 22nd June 2023The Italian mezzo discusses her new album of works which 'occupy a middle-ground between opera and art-song', including music by Zingarelli, Rossini, Donizetti, Viardot-García and Wagner - and her plans to shine a new light on the latter composer's Wesendonck Lieder...
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Gregorian chant-inspired contemporary choral music by Henrik Ødegaard 20th June 2023The Norwegian composer talks about his new album of choral works, performed by Vox Clamantis with Jaan-Eik Tulve.
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Eva Zaïcik and David Haroutunian on 'Mayrig: To Armenian Mothers' 19th June 2023The mezzo-soprano and violinist explore some of the themes from their recent album, based around reflections on motherhood in the Armenian classical tradition and in particular the works of Komitas and Aprikian.
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The Bevan Family Consort on Vidi Speciosam 15th June 2023Five Bevans joined us at our store in Leamington Spa last month to launch their new album of sacred choral music on Signum - and share some anecdotes about growing up in a large musical family...
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Karina Canellakis on Bartók 6th June 2023The American conductor talks about her debut recording on Pentatone with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic - and explains why the repertoire on the album required such high levels of trust and caffeine...
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Isata Kanneh-Mason's Childhood Tales 31st May 2023The pianist discusses growing up in a 'house full of music' in Nottingham, and her new album of works by Mozart, Schumann, Debussy and Dohnányi (out now on Decca Classics).
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María Dueñas on Beethoven and Beyond 25th May 2023The Spanish violinist discusses her debut recording of the Beethoven concerto (plus shorter pieces by Spohr, Kreisler, Saint-Saëns, Ysaÿe and Wieniawski), and explains why she felt it was important to bring 'something of herself' to the work by writing her own cadenzas.
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Cecilia McDowall on her Da Vinci Requiem and Seventy Degrees below Zero 24th May 2023The composer discusses two of her new large-scale choral works, her approaches to matching words to music, and her aims as a contemporary composer.
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Lara Downes on Love at Last 18th May 2023The pianist and activist talks about her new album, pulling together piano miniatures from all around the world, past and present, in response to challenging times.
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Missy Mazzoli on Dark with Excessive Bright 16th May 2023In the wake of the first full-length album of her orchestral music on BIS, the American composer talks about the writers and musicians who've inspired her work...
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Tessa Lark on The Stradgrass Sessions 11th May 2023The violinist talks about her new album, which sees her collaborate with an eclectic mix of musicians and explore everything from Ysaÿe's Solo Sonata No. 5 to Michael Cleveland's infectious fiddle-tunes.
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Jocelyn Freeman on The Poet's Echo 4th May 2023The pianist discusses her album of works with a Pushkin connection (including a new version of Britten's eponymous song-cycle, Shostakovich's Cello Sonata and Prokofiev's Three Romances), recently released on Rubicon and also featuring soprano Gemma Summerfield, baritone Gareth Brynmor John & cellist Abi Hyde-Smith.
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Raider of the Lost Archives - Michael Spyres on Contra-Tenor 27th April 2023The American singer discusses becoming 'the Indiana Jones of the tenor voice' on his latest album for Erato, which charts the evolution of the Baroque tenore assoluto and features rarities by composers including Latilla, Mazzoni & Piccinni...
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Eric Whitacre at... 30! 26th April 2023Looking back over three decades of music, the world-renowned composer talks Whitman, musical hits and misses, and the correlation between a piece's length and the age of the composer's children...
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David Skinner on Byrd's 'Songs of Sundrie Natures' 18th April 2023The artistic director of Alamire talks about his new recording with Fretwork of Byrd's 1589 collection of church and domestic songs, complementing an album from two years ago in which they explored the previous volume from 1588.