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Gramophone Classical Music Podcast

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17:54

Andrew Nethsingha: music at St John's College, Cambridge

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2019/05/14

The latest recording from the choir of St John's College, Cambridge celebrates the 150th anniversary of the consecration of its chapel, and its 100th recording. Director of Music Andrew Nethsingha talks to Gramophone Editor Martin Cullingford about the album - titled Locus Iste - and about how the extraordinary building shapes the choir's sound.

14:01

Gerald Finley: the music of Kaija Saariaho

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2019/05/10

Kaija Saariaho has written a song-cycle, True Fire, for the baritone Gerald Finley, and which he has now recorded with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Hannu Lintu, for Ondine. James Jolly paid Gerald Finley a visit to talk about the score, its challenges and how he and Saariaho first encountered each other.

18:43

Schumann and song: Julian Prégardien

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2019/05/03

12:51

Amy Dickson on 'In Circles'

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2019/04/26

17:01

The BBC Proms 2019

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2019/04/17

14:25

Colin Currie on the music of Steve Reich

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2019/04/12

'Colin Currie and Steve Reich. Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton' is the third album to be released on Colin Currie's own label and captures five performances, taken live, at a Steve Reich presentation in Paris. The music ranges from Clapping Music of 1972 to Pulse of 2015. James Jolly met up with Colin to talk about his long association with Reich's music, the approach needed to perform music of mathematical precision yet at the same surprising emotional weight, and performing Clapping Music with

17:17

Brahms and Ligeti: Augustin Hadelich

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2019/04/05

German-American violinist Augustin Hadelich talks to James Jolly about the challenge of Brahms's great Violin Concerto, which he has twinned with György Ligeti's Violin Concerto of some 110 years later for his new recording on Warner Classics.

14:42

Carolyn Sampson: 'Reason in Madness'

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2019/03/29

Carolyn Sampson talks to Editor-in-Chief James Jolly about 'Reason in Madness', her new recording from BIS performed with pianist Joseph Middleton, which focuses on some of literature's heroines whose mental state has been unbalanced by sadness or tragedy, drawing on some glorious, and unsettling, music from composers including Brahms, Schumann, Richard Strauss, Chausson, Saint-Saëns and Poulenc.

13:48

Bach's violin concertos: Isabelle Faust

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2019/03/22

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.

15:07

Madeleine Mitchell: the chamber music of Grace Williams

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2019/03/15

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.

13:34

The Romantic clarinet: Andreas Ottensamer

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2019/03/08

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.

12:58

Lucie Horsch: a Baroque Journey

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2019/03/01

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.

21:00

Dame Emma Kirkby: a birthday podcast

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2019/02/22

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.

14:41

Harry Christophers: Handel's Acis and Galatea

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2019/02/14

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.

13:09

Jan Lisiecki: Mendelssohn's piano music

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2019/02/08

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.

24:24

Hilary Hahn on recording Bach

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast ·

2019/02/01

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.

10:39

Haydn piano sonatas: Roman Rabinovich

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2019/01/25

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

19:52

Christian Gerhaher: Schumann the song composer

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2019/01/18

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.

14:14

Jennifer Pike: the Polish Violin

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2019/01/11

The violinist Jennifer Pike tells James Jolly about her new album on Chandos called 'The Polish Violin', for which she's joined by the pianist Petr Limonov. It features music by Henryk Wieniawski, Karol Szymanowski, Moritz Moszkowski and Mieczysław Karłowicz.

26:54

Harmonia Mundi: Gramophone's Label of the Year

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2018/12/21

We profile our 2018 label of the year - Harmonia Mundi. Editor Martin Cullingford spent time last summer in Arles, the label’s home in the South of France, and spoke to various artists - both established and newly-signed - and the label head Christian Girardin about what Harmonia Mundi and indeed recording itself means to them.

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