Classical Interviews
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Elizabeth Sombart on Mozart and philanthropy
The pianist and humanitarian activist talks about her new album of Mozart concertos and her work with the Fondation Résonnance over the years.
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Debbie Wiseman - Ten: Memories for solo piano
Debbie talks about her experiences being Classic FM's Composer in Residence, her new album and sheet music collection, 'Ten: Memories for solo piano', and the music she has composed over the past decade.
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Sophie Pacini on Bittersweet
In advance of her performance at the Oxford Piano Festival on Sunday evening, the Italian pianist discusses her mission to share music as a source of hope in women's shelters, and how this has influenced the programmes for this recital and her latest album, bittersweet.
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bittersweet
Sophie Pacini (piano)
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Mark Williams on Be Still My Soul
Magdalen College's Informator Choristarum (Director of Music) talks about his new album of favourite hymns with the choir, the role they play in the choir's daily life, and the trick to writing a really good descant.
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Be Still, My Soul
Choir of Magdalen College Oxford, Mark Williams
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Gerald Finley on the First Night of the Proms
In advance of singing Vaughan Williams in tomorrow night's opening concert, the Canadian bass-baritone reflects on his 45-year relationship with the Proms - which began with a 'baptism of fire' just hours after he arrived in London to begin his studies at the Royal College of Music in 1979...
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Susan Narucki on György Kurtág
In the wake of her acclaimed recording of the mercurial Kafka Fragments with violinist Curtis Macomber (released on Avie at the end of last month), the American soprano discusses her forty-year musical relationship with the Hungarian composer.
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Apollo's Cabinet on the remarkable career of Kitty Clive
Teresa Wrann talks about the group's new album, charting the highs and lows of a truly remarkable performer who held sway over London's theatre scene and served as a muse to Handel.
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Jonathan Sells on Gesualdo, Bruckner and unexpected Wagner
The newly-appointed Choir Director of the Monteverdi Choir talks about his new album with the Choir, juxtaposing motets by Bruckner and Gesualdo and seeing both through a Wagnerian lens.
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Bruckner & Gesualdo: Motets
Monteverdi Choir, Jonathan Sells
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François Leleux on Future Horizons
The oboist talks about his new album of newly-written works for oboe and orchestra, with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Andrés Orozco-Estrada.
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Francesca dePasquale: Hypermobile Musician
Francesca dePasquale discusses her resource, Hypermobile Musician, and the importance of raising awareness around hypermobility in the music industry.
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Beverley McGeown on OpenArts NI
The conductor of Belfast-based Open Arts Community Choir (winner of the Inspiration award at this year's RPS Awards) talks about her work with disabled and non-disabled musicians.
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CRD at 50
Siblings Tom and Emma Pauncefort join Presto to talk about taking the reins of the family label started by their father Graham, which is currently celebrating a half century of releasing music.
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Zlatomir Fung on Fantasies
The young American cellist discusses his debut solo album on Signum, featuring virtuosic fantasies on operas by Donizetti, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Bizet - plus his own astute paraphrase on Janáček's Jenůfa.
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Fantasies
Zlatomir Fung (cello), Richard Fu (piano)
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Christopher Gray on Lament and Liberation
The Music Director of St John's College Cambridge talks about his first album with the choir - built around James MacMillan's Cantos Sagrados and Joanna Marsh's Echoes in Time.
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Edward Gardner on the LPO, Tippett, and Britten
The British conductor talks about his memories of conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra for the very first time, why he chose an opera by Tippett for his first concert as their Principal Conductor back in 2021, and his new album of works by Benjamin Britten.
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Leif Ove Andsnes on Via Crucis
The Norwegian pianist talks to Matthew Ash about the challenges and unique beauty of Via Crucis, his long relationship with it and the pieces he chose to complete the programme.
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Ophélie Gaillard on Cello Tango
The French cellist discusses her new album of music by Piazzolla, Ginastera, Gardel and others (released on Aparté in April), falling in love with tango during a tour to Buenos Aires, and why the milonga is the perfect place to let off steam after a concert...
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Magdalena Kožená on L'extase
Ahead of the release of her new album with Mitsuko Uchida on Pentatone tomorrow, the Czech mezzo discusses their shared passion for Debussy - and how she fell in love with French song behind the Iron Curtain as a teenager.
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Martin Iddon on Hesperides
The composer talks about his recent album of delicate, mysterious compositions, performed by the aptly-named Quiet Music Ensemble, released in April on NMC Recordings.
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Alexandre Dratwicki on Bizet and Bru Zane
On the 150th anniversary of Bizet's death, Bru Zane's Artistic Director discusses a new anthology exploring the French composer's lesser-known works - and outlines the label's plans to shine a light on some of his near-forgotten compatriots from the early twentieth century...
