Latest News: Classical, Linn (label)
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Interview,
Michael Barenboim on Elgar and more 7th March 2024The violinist discusses his recent recording of the Elgar concerto, his work as Dean of the Barenboim-Said Akademie, switching between violin and viola - and family values.
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Interview,
Rory McCleery on Vicente Lusitano 16th February 2023The Marian Consort's director talks about the ensemble's recent album of choral polyphony by Vicente Lusitano, the earliest-known classical composer of African ancestry.
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Interview,
Julian Podger on the music of Dufay 9th February 2023The director of Gothic Voices talks about the group's new album of choral works from Florentine collections, including two of Dufay's most famous motets - Nuper rosarum flores and O tres piteulx.
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Interview,
Harry Bicket on Handel's La Resurrezione 9th May 2022The conductor talks about his new recording of Handel's unusual oratorio dramatising the post-Easter story.
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Interview,
Laurence Dreyfus on the consort music of John Jenkins 23rd February 2022The director of acclaimed consort Phantasm talks about their new album of intricate, yet intimate, Renaissance works for viols.
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Recording of the Week,
Handel's Rodelinda from Harry Bicket and The English Concert 14th May 2021Social distancing is no barrier to superb ensemble-playing on this terrific new recording of Handel's 1725 opera, with Lucy Crowe in the title-role and Iestyn Davies as her estranged husband Bertarido.
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Interview,
Peter Whelan on The Trials of Tenducci 23rd March 2021The conductor talks to Katherine about his new recording with the Irish Baroque Orchestra, which explores the musical life of mid-eighteenth-century Dublin and the legacy of one of its brightest imported stars - the scandal-hit castrato Giusto Fernando Tenducci.
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Interview,
Simon Trpčeski on Makedonissimo 8th October 2020The Macedonian pianist talks about his new album, which showcases the folk traditions of his roots in new arrangements for his quintet, composed by Pande Shahov.
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Interview,
Robin Ticciati on Strauss 21st September 2020The conductor talks to Katherine about his recording of Tod und Verklärung, Don Juan, and the Brentano-Lieder with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and soprano Louise Alder, out now on Linn.
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Interview,
Duo Pleyel on Schubert 8th June 2020David talks to husband-and-wife piano duo Richard Egarr and Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya about their latest album Lebensstürme, out now on Linn.
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Interview,
The Well-Tempered Consort 4th February 2020Phantasm's founder, director and violist Laurence Dreyfus talks to David about the consort's new disc, exploring the polyphonic keyboard works of JS Bach in new arrangements for viols.
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Interview,
Alan George on Shostakovich's String Quartets 10th October 2019Violist Alan George looks back on fifty years of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, and remembers their unique relationship with Dmitri Shostakovich.
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Interview,
Robin Ticciati on Duruflé and Debussy 12th September 2019The conductor talks to Katherine about his third recording of French repertoire with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, which pairs the Duruflé Requiem with Debussy's Nocturnes.
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Interview,
Elizabeth Kenny on Old and New Music for Theorbo 29th July 2019The theorbo-player and lutenist talks to David about her solo album Ars longa, released on Linn last month, which includes music by Kapsberger, Piccinini and Robert de Visée as well as new commissions from Benjamin Oliver and Nico Muhly.
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Interview,
Magdalena Kožená on French song 20th September 2018The Czech mezzo talks to Katherine about recording Duparc with Robin Ticciati and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin for their new album Aimer et mourir, out tomorrow on Linn Records.
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Interview,
Robin Ticciati on Brahms's Symphonies 21st March 2018The conductor talks to Katherine about his final recording as Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, out this Friday on Linn Records.
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Interview,
John Butt on Monteverdi's Vespers 1610 18th September 2017John Butt talks to David about his new recording of Monteverdi's majestic Vespers with the Dunedin Consort and His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts.
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Recording of the Week,
Francesco Piemontesi performs Piano Concertos by Mozart 11th August 2017James enjoys a pair of late Mozart concertos from Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi, with Andrew Manze and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
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Recording of the Week,
Bach's Christmas Oratorio from John Butt and Handel's Messiah from Andrew Davis 2nd December 2016David listens to a contrasting double-bill of festive oratorios, with the Dunedin Consort and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and Symphony Orchestra.
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Interview,
John Butt on Bach's Christmas Oratorio 24th October 2016David talks to the Dunedin Consort's director about his latest recording of choral Bach.