Latest News: Classical, Interview
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Interview,
Eva Zaïcik and David Haroutunian on 'Mayrig: To Armenian Mothers' 19th June 2023
The mezzo-soprano and violinist explore some of the themes from their recent album, based around reflections on motherhood in the Armenian classical tradition and in particular the works of Komitas and Aprikian.
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Interview,
The Bevan Family Consort on Vidi Speciosam 15th June 2023
Five Bevans joined us at our store in Leamington Spa last month to launch their new album of sacred choral music on Signum - and share some anecdotes about growing up in a large musical family...
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Interview,
Karina Canellakis on Bartók 6th June 2023
The American conductor talks about her debut recording on Pentatone with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic - and explains why the repertoire on the album required such high levels of trust and caffeine...
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Interview,
Isata Kanneh-Mason's Childhood Tales 31st May 2023
The pianist discusses growing up in a 'house full of music' in Nottingham, and her new album of works by Mozart, Schumann, Debussy and Dohnányi (out now on Decca Classics).
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Interview,
María Dueñas on Beethoven and Beyond 25th May 2023
The Spanish violinist discusses her debut recording of the Beethoven concerto (plus shorter pieces by Spohr, Kreisler, Saint-Saëns, Ysaÿe and Wieniawski), and explains why she felt it was important to bring 'something of herself' to the work by writing her own cadenzas.
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Interview,
Cecilia McDowall on her Da Vinci Requiem and Seventy Degrees below Zero 24th May 2023
The composer discusses two of her new large-scale choral works, her approaches to matching words to music, and her aims as a contemporary composer.
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Interview,
Lara Downes on Love at Last 18th May 2023
The pianist and activist talks about her new album, pulling together piano miniatures from all around the world, past and present, in response to challenging times.
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Interview,
Missy Mazzoli on Dark with Excessive Bright 16th May 2023
In 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,
Tessa Lark on The Stradgrass Sessions 11th May 2023
The violinist talks about her new album, which sees her collaborate with an eclectic mix of musicians and explore everything from Ysaÿe's Solo Sonata No. 5 to Michael Cleveland's infectious fiddle-tunes.
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Interview,
Jocelyn Freeman on The Poet's Echo 4th May 2023
The pianist discusses her album of works with a Pushkin connection (including a new version of Britten's eponymous song-cycle, Shostakovich's Cello Sonata and Prokofiev's Three Romances), recently released on Rubicon and also featuring soprano Gemma Summerfield, baritone Gareth Brynmor John & cellist Abi Hyde-Smith.
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Interview,
Raider of the Lost Archives - Michael Spyres on Contra-Tenor 27th April 2023
The American singer discusses becoming 'the Indiana Jones of the tenor voice' on his latest album for Erato, which charts the evolution of the Baroque tenore assoluto and features rarities by composers including Latilla, Mazzoni & Piccinni...
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Interview,
Eric Whitacre at... 30! 26th April 2023
Looking back over three decades of music, the world-renowned composer talks Whitman, musical hits and misses, and the correlation between a piece's length and the age of the composer's children...
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Interview,
David Skinner on Byrd's 'Songs of Sundrie Natures' 18th April 2023
The artistic director of Alamire talks about his new recording with Fretwork of Byrd's 1589 collection of church and domestic songs, complementing an album from two years ago in which they explored the previous volume from 1588.
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Interview,
Franco Fagioli on Anime Immortali 14th April 2023
The Argentinian countertenor discusses his new album of sacred and secular Mozart (out today on Pentatone) - and recounts how his love-affair with singing the composer's music was ignited when he was cast as First Boy in Die Zauberflöte aged 11...
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Interview,
Florian Deuter on Biber's sonatas "for altar and court" 13th April 2023
The violinist talks about his recent album of ensemble music by Biber - twelve sonatas for various combinations of instruments, interleaved with twelve duos for trumpets, all coming from Biber's time in the service of the Salzburg court.
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Interview,
Bracing Change - Helen Grime on contemporary string quartets 11th April 2023
Scottish composer Helen Grime discusses her second string quartet, which features on the second volume of Bracing Change string commissions from NMC and the Wigmore Hall.
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Interview,
Cyrille Dubois on So Romantique! 23rd March 2023
The French light lyric tenor explains how he found his operatic niche as a lover rather than a fighter - and discusses his new album on Alpha Classics, featuring rarities by Louis Clapisson, Charles Luce-Verlet and Théodore Dubois alongside one or two old favourites...
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Interview,
Simon Mayor on Carolan 22nd March 2023
The mandolinist talks about his new album of music by the eighteenth-century Irish harpist Turlough O'Carolan, featuring his own arrangements that meld together Baroque, folk and chamber styles.
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Interview,
Jean Rondeau on Gradus ad Parnassum 16th March 2023
The French harpsichordist discusses his new album on Erato, which takes its title from a 1725 treatise on counterpoint by Johann Joseph Fux and includes music by Palestrina, Haydn, Beethoven and even Debussy...
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Interview,
The Calidore String Quartet record late Beethoven 15th March 2023
Violinist Ryan Meehan talks about the quartet's new album, which builds on their earlier more exploratory releases with an all-Beethoven programme.
