Latest News: Classical, ECM (label)
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Interview,
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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Recording of the Week,
Well-tempered Bach on the clavichord from András Schiff 27th January 2023An oft-neglected early keyboard instrument finally gets its moment in the sun in an intimate programme of Bach that plays to its strengths, built around the two-part and three-part inventions.
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Recording of the Week,
Weinberg solo violin sonatas from Gidon Kremer 18th February 2022The Latvian violinist celebrates his 75th birthday with impassioned recordings of Weinberg's three sonatas for solo violin.
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Recording of the Week,
András Schiff performs piano concertos by Brahms 4th June 2021The Hungarian-born pianist is joined by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for a recording of Brahms's two piano concertos that strips away performance traditions to present refreshingly original accounts of both works, full of detail and character.
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Interview,
Sir András Schiff on Schubert 7th May 2019The Hungarian-born British pianist talks to Katherine about late Schubert, and ‘falling in love at first sight’ with the Brodmann fortepiano which he plays on his recent recordings of sonatas and impromptus on ECM.
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Recording of the Week,
András Schiff plays late Schubert 12th April 2019The Hungarian-born pianist brings introspective poetry to two late sonatas, the Four Impromptus D899 and the Drei Klavierstücke D946, recorded on his Franz Brodmann fortepiano from 1820.
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Recording of the Week,
Wispelwey and Schiff re-visit Bach 17th December 2012For his third recording of the Suites, the Dutch cellist tunes his instrument down by a whole tone to the pitch which was commonly used in Cöthen where Bach composed the works, whilst Schiff’s second take on The Well-Tempered Clavier is more direct and less sentimental than its predecessor.
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Recording of the Week,
Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel 4th February 2008In response to its frequent use in television and film, Chris ponders the Estonian composer’s 1978 composition ‘mirror/s in the mirror’ and alights upon a favourite recording.