Latest News: Classical, Interview
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Interview,
Joséphine Olech on Romantic flute concertos 14th October 2021
The flautist talks about her new album, pairing the relatively well-known flute concertos of Nielsen and Françaix with a rarely-heard gem by Theodor Verhey.
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Interview,
Owain Park on Fading 14th October 2021
The conductor, singer and composer talks about his album, inspired by the office of Compline and the concept of day turning to night and back again.
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Interview,
Roger Sayers on Vierne's organ symphonies 12th October 2021
The organist of London's Temple Church talks about symphonies, the French Romantics, registrations and film soundtracks.
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Interview,
John Butt on Bach cantatas 5th October 2021
The Dunedin Consort's musical director talks about the Consort's new recording, drawing together three of JS Bach's most profound and moving cantatas.
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Interview,
Andrew Litton on Prokofiev 30th September 2021
The 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,
The Jukebox Album 27th September 2021
Elena Urioste and Tom Poster talk about their wide-ranging album of arrangements for violin and piano, which grew out of a project to reconnect with audiences during quarantine in 2020.
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Interview,
Anna-Liisa Eller on Strings Attached 21st September 2021
The kannel player talks about her instrument, and her new album that combines early-music transcriptions with contemporary compositions and improvisations.
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Interview,
Charles Owen on Liszt and lockdown 15th September 2021
The British pianist discusses his new recording of Suisse from Années de Pèlerinage (out this Friday on Avie Records), his role as a Steinway ambassador, and how his relationship with the 'three pianos in his life' shifted in lockdown.
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Interview,
Víkingur Ólafsson on Mozart and his Contemporaries 9th September 2021
The Icelandic pianist talks to Katherine about his new album exploring 'one of the most incredible decades in any composer's life', and his mission to 'get rid of some my own preconceptions about Mozart by finding out more about the music of his day'.
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Interview,
Alexander Lingas on Hymns of Kassianí 28th August 2021
The founder and director of Cappella Romana talks about his recent album showcasing the music of the ninth-century Byzantine abbess and poet, Kassía.
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Interview,
Cordelia Williams on Nightlight 25th August 2021
The pianist talks to Katherine about her new playlist-style album on Somm Records, exploring different facets of night as depicted in works by Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Scriabin, Tomkins and Bill Evans.
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Interview,
Seong-Jin Cho returns to Chopin 23rd August 2021
The pianist talks about his return to Chopin, the technical demands of his concertos, and the composer's reputation within Korea.
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Interview,
Sean Shibe on Camino 20th August 2021
The Scottish guitarist talks to Katherine about today's Recording of the Week, which he describes as 'a profound spiritual journey'.
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Interview,
Long Yu on The Song of the Earth 17th August 2021
The conductor of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra talks about his new recording, pairing Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with a newly-commissioned setting by Xiaogang Ye of the original Chinese poems on which it was based.
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Interview,
Jan Lisiecki on Chopin 11th August 2021
The Canadian pianist, who made his first Chopin recordings in his early teens, talks to Katherine about his long-standing affinity with the composer's music and his new recording of the Nocturnes (released this Friday on Deutsche Grammophon).
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Interview,
Andrew Matthews-Owen on Taliesin's Songbook 5th August 2021
The pianist talks to Katherine about a new anthology of Welsh song, featuring music by composers including Morfydd Owen, Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, Grace Williams and Huw Watkins.
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Interview,
Lan Shui on the Singapore Symphony Orchestra 3rd August 2021
The Conductor Laureate of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, recently succeeded by Hans Graf, looks back over the ensemble's history and his own long tenure at the helm.
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Interview,
Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman on Beethoven and Scharwenka 27th July 2021
The piano duo talk about their new series of recordings of Beethoven's symphonies transcribed by Scharwenka, and discuss the unique musical changes that took place over Scharwenka's own lifetime.
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Interview,
Laurence Equilbey on Louise Farrenc 26th July 2021
Following her release in early July of a recording of two symphonies by Louise Farrenc, conductor Laurence Equilbey digs further into the life and work of a unique French composer.
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Interview,
Charles Richard-Hamelin on Chopin 22nd July 2021
In the wake of his new recording of the 24 Préludes Op. 28 on Analekta, the Canadian pianist talks to Katherine about why playing Chopin's music always 'feels like coming home' to him.
