Gramophone Classical Music Podcast

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Angela Hewitt on Bach, Beethoven and Messiaen Jun 08, 2018

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Leading pianist Angela Hewitt talks to Gramophone's Editor Martin Cullingford about the importance of Bach in her life, recording Beethoven Sonatas, and performing Messiaen at the Proms.

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Esa-Pekka Salonen, Hubert Parry, the month's best releases May 25, 2018

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Gramophone's Editor Martin Cullingford and Editor-in-Chief James Jolly discuss some of the main features and most significant releases covered in the latest issue of Gramophone. Topics include: composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, the legacy of Parry, this month's best releases - including our Recording of the Month, Crusell's clarinet concertos - and an introduction to some new features in the magazine.

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Birgit Nilsson, lieder in translation, the month's best releases Apr 26, 2018

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Gramophone's Editor Martin Cullingford and Editor-in-Chief James Jolly discuss some of the main features and most significant releases covered in the latest issue of Gramophone. Topics include: the legacy of the great soprano Birgit Nilsson, Schubert lieder in translation, St John's College Cambridge, highlights from this month's Editor's Choices - including Christian Tetzlaff's new recording of Bartók's violin concertos and Julien Brocal's release of Mompou and Ravel - and an insight into Karl Böhm's opera recordings.

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The 2018 BBC Proms Apr 19, 2018

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The 2018 BBC Proms has been announced. Gramophone's Editor Martin Cullingford caught up with David Pickard, Director of the BBC Proms, and Francesca Kemp, Director of Proms on Television, to talk through some of the season's highlights.

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Countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński Mar 30, 2018

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The young Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński - a recent Gramophone 'One to Watch' - is something of an internet sensation, his performances on YouTube of the Vivaldi aria 'Vedro, con mio diletto' having been watched tens of thousands of times. March 30 sees a studio recording with Il Pomo d'Oro being released by Erato as a digital single. You can hear it in in this week's episode of Gramophone's The Listening Room.

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Music education with Julian Lloyd Webber Mar 12, 2018

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James Jolly talks to the Principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Prof Julian Lloyd Webber about his aspirations for the new building, what a conservatoire education means and how important classical music is for us all.

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Handel's last Prima Donna Mar 02, 2018

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Soprano Ruby Hughes and conductor Laurence Cummings talk to Editor-in-Chief James Jolly about music written for the Italian soprano Giulia Frasi, Handel's last prima donna, which they've recorded for a new disc on Chandos.

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Westminster Abbey's James O'Donnell on Ludford Feb 22, 2018

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The choir of Westminster Abbey's new recording for the Hyperion label features the music of 16th-century English composer Nicholas Ludford. Organist and Master of the Choristers James O'Donnell talks to Gramophone's Editor Martin Cullingford about Ludford, as well as about the role of the choir in the life of the Abbey today.

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Exploring Gershwin with Kirill Gerstein Feb 05, 2018

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Leading virtuoso pianist Krill Gerstein talks to Editor Martin Cullingford about Gershwin, someone whose ability to weave together many soundworlds makes him, Gerstein argues, truly a composer for today's world. His album, featuring Rhapsody in Blue and the Concerto in F and from which the musical excerpts are taken, is released on Myrios Classics on February 16.

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Exploring Prokofiev: Lisa Batiashvili Jan 29, 2018

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Lisa Batiashvili talks to Gramophone's Editor Martin Cullingford about her new recording on the Deutsche Grammophon label devoted to the music of Prokofiev, including both violin concertos and some shorter works from throughout the composer's life.

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