Latest News: Classical, BIS (label)
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Interview,
Can Çakmur on Schubert 18th January 2024Ahead of his gala concert launching the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition at Kings Place tomorrow, the Turkish pianist discusses his Schubert + project on BIS, his friendship with Fazıl Say, and why he's 'super-unpicky' about the instruments he plays in concert...
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Interview,
Carolyn Sampson reflects on her first hundred recordings 6th December 2023Ahead of her recital with Joseph Middleton at Wigmore Hall tonight, the soprano discusses her 100th album but I like to sing... - and reflects on some of the highlights of her recording career to date...
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Recording of the Week,
Choral works by the late Kaija Saariaho 7th July 2023The Helsinki Chamber Choir under Nils Schweckendiek perform choral music by Saariaho that explores a wide range of subjects – from atmospheric invocations of night and Roman mythology to the seasons of the year and spacefaring science fiction.
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Interview,
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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Interview,
Clare Hammond on the piano études of Hélène de Montgeroult 23rd November 2022The pianist talks about her new album focusing on the revolutionary piano studies of Hélène de Montgeroult - anticipating many of the ideas that would be adopted by later Romantic composers.
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Recording of the Week,
Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch from Carolyn Sampson, Allan Clayton and Joseph Middleton 5th August 2022All three artists are wonderfully attuned to the wit and warmth of Wolf's set of 46 delectable miniatures, with Middleton's characterful postludes proving in a joy in themselves...
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Recording of the Week,
Ronald Brautigam performs piano concertos by Johann Wilhelm Wilms 1st July 2022Fortepianist Ronald Brautigam is joined by the Kölner Akademie and conductor Michael Alexander Willens for the first of two volumes of concertos by the composer once described as "the Dutch Beethoven".
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Recording of the Week,
Johan Dalene performs violin concertos by Nielsen & Sibelius 1st April 2022The Swedish violinist offers a characterful performance of Sibelius's concerto alongside a virtuosic account of the piece that swept him to victory at the 2019 Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition.
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Interview,
Julian Azkoul on Renewal 27th January 2022The artistic director of United Strings of Europe talks to Katherine about the ensemble's genesis and future plans, and their new recording of works by Caroline Shaw, Joanna Marsh, Osvaldo Golijov and Felix Mendelssohn (out now on BIS).
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Interview,
Andrew Litton on Prokofiev 30th September 2021The American conductor talks to Katherine about his recordings of the complete Prokofiev symphonies with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, released as a box-set tomorrow on BIS.
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Interview,
James Newby on I Wonder as I Wander 9th March 2021The young British baritone talks to Katherine about his career to date, and his debut recording of songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler and Britten on BIS.
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Recording of the Week,
Osmo Vänskä conducts Mahler's Tenth Symphony 5th March 2021The Minnesota Orchestra and their Music Director give a tumultuous, emotional account of Mahler's final, unfinished symphony, in the performing version by Deryck Cooke.
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Interview,
Clare Hammond on Variations 3rd March 2021The pianist talks about her new album, that sees her draw together numerous different sets of variations from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Interview,
Johan Dalene on Nordic Rhapsody 2nd March 2021The Swedish violinist talks about his new album of music from Northern Europe, with pianist Christian Ihle Hadland.
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Interview,
Christian Immler on Hans Gál 10th February 2021The German bass-baritone talks to Katherine about Hidden Treasures (out now on BIS), featuring world premiere recordings of twenty-six songs which the Austrian-born composer 'laid aside'.
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Recording of the Week,
Bertrand Chamayou and Alexandre Kantorow 16th October 2020Two contrasting recitals from award-winning French pianists - one fuelled by melatonin, the other by adrenaline.
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Interview,
Kent Nagano on Penderecki's St Luke Passion 22nd June 2020The American conductor talks to David about his recent recording of the late Krzysztof Penderecki's searing setting of the St Luke Passion with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal.
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Interview,
Ruby Hughes on Clytemnestra 4th March 2020The British soprano talks to Katherine about her new album featuring Rhian Samuel's Aeschylus-inspired monodrama and song-cycles by Mahler and Berg, out now on BIS.
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Interview,
Paul Wee on Alkan 13th January 2020Australian pianist and lawyer Paul Wee talks to David about his new recording of two monumental works by Alkan - the Symphony and Concerto for solo piano - and about his intense double career.
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Recording of the Week,
Osmo Vänskä conducts Mahler's Fourth Symphony 27th December 2019Joined by soprano Carolyn Sampson, Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra continue their Mahler cycle with an exquisitely-detailed performance of the Fourth Symphony.