Gramophone Classical Music Podcast

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Bach's violin concertos: Isabelle Faust Mar 22, 2019

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Isabelle Faust, the multi-Gramophone Award-winning violinist, has recorded an album of Bach concertos, sinfonias and trio sonatas with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin on the Harmonia Mundi label. She talks about the new recording with Editor-in-Chief James Jolly.

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Madeleine Mitchell: the chamber music of Grace Williams Mar 15, 2019

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Grace Williams (1906-77) was one of Wales's finest composers - she left a sizeable body of work, her best-known piece being the orchestral tone-poem Penillion, as well as a lot of chamber music, much of it as yet unpublished. Madeleine Mitchell and friends have just released a recording for Naxos of her chamber music, and Editor-in-Chief James Jolly caught up with the violinist to talk about it.

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The Romantic clarinet: Andreas Ottensamer Mar 08, 2019

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The Berlin Philharmonic clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer talks to Gramophone's Editor-in-Chief James Jolly about recording Weber's First Clarinet Concerto, and music by Brahms and Mendelssohn, for Deutsch Grammophon.

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Lucie Horsch: a Baroque Journey Mar 01, 2019

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Lucie Horsch's new album, Baroque Journey, takes us on a thrilling and diverse journey through some of the recorder's most beautiful repertoire. Gramophone's Editor Martin Cullingford met her to discuss her new release on Decca.

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Dame Emma Kirkby: a birthday podcast Feb 22, 2019

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As Dame Emma Kirkby, of the UK's most popular sopranos, reaches a milestone birthday, we catch up with her and look back over her career, with Editor-in-Chief James Jolly. With music courtesy of Hyperion records.

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Harry Christophers: Handel's Acis and Galatea Feb 14, 2019

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The conductor Harry Christophers, who founded his choir The Sixteen in 1979, tells James Jolly about his new release - Handel's pastoral Acis and Galatea, issued on the Coro label.

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Jan Lisiecki: Mendelssohn's piano music Feb 08, 2019

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The pianist and former Gramophone Young Artist of the Year talks to James Jolly about his new album for Deutsche Grammophon, featuring Mendelssohn's two piano concertos alongside two major solo works.

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Hilary Hahn on recording Bach Feb 01, 2019

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Back in November we named Hilary Hahn's new album of the solo violin music of Bach, on the Decca label, our Recording of the Month. For the latest Gramophone Podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford talked to her about her about very personal relationship with the composer's music.

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Haydn piano sonatas: Roman Rabinovich Jan 25, 2019

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Pianist Roman Rabinovich discusses recording Haydn piano sonatas for First Hand Recordings. Presented by Gramophone's Editor-in-Chief James Jolly.

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Christian Gerhaher: Schumann the song composer Jan 18, 2019

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Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber have embarked on a Schumann Lieder project; the first volume 'Frage' is just out and combines groups of songs – or song-cycles as Gerhaher argues – from 1840 and 1850 and includes the Kerner-Lieder. Gramophone's Editor-in-Chief James Jolly caught up with the baritone for our latest podcast.

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