Klaus Mäkelä's second recording for Decca finds him at the helm of his French orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris. They recorded Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and the complete Firebird ballet. James Jolly spoke to the conductor by Zoom as Klaus was in Cleveland conducting performances of Mahler's Fifth Symphony.

Gramophone Podcasts are given in association with Wigmore Hall. (See below for the coming week's concerts.)

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This Gramophone podcast is published in association with Wigmore Hall: this week's concerts include:

Friday, March 24, at 7.30pm: Gramophone Award winner, the mezzo Marianne Crebassa, joined by Joseph Middleton at the piano sings a programme of French and Spanish songs including cycles by Jesús Guridi, Debussy and Ravel.

Saturday, March 25, at 1pm: The pianist Lucy Parham with the actor Henry Goodman give another of her composer-focused performances, celebrating Rachmaninov in this his 150^th birthday year.

Saturday, March 25, at 7.30pm: The pianist Imogen Cooper gives a programme of Liszt, Schubert and Beethoven including his final two piano sonatas.

Sunday, March 26, at 11.30am: The Marmen Quartet plays Mozart’s E flat quartet, K428 and Janáček's Second, Intimate Letters.

Sunday, March 26, at 7.30pm: Mandolin player Avi Avital and accordionist Ksenija Sidorova pair up for a programme of arrangements ranging from the 18th to the 20th centuries, visiting France, Austria, Italy, Spain, Romania and Brazil on the way.

Monday March 27, at 1pm and live streamed: Steven Isserlis (cello); Jonian Ilias Kadesha (violin); Irène Duval (violin); Eivind Ringstad (viola); Vashti Hunter (cello); Lucy Shaw (double bass) and Maggie Cole (harpsichord) play Boccherini

Monday March 27, at 7.30pm: Violinist Simone Lamsma and pianist Beatrice Rana play sonatas by Brahms (F-A-E Sonata - Scherzo), Prokofiev (his First) and Respighi as well as three preludes by Lera Auerbach.

Tuesday, March 28, at 5pm, 6.15pm and 7.30pm: The Nash Ensemble’s Adrian Brendel (cello) and Alasdair Beatson (piano) and horn-player Johan Stone from the Royal Academy of Music play music by Colin Matthews, Andrea Balency-Béarn, Eleanor Alberga, Sun Keting and Hans Abrahamsen. Then at 6.15, Katy Hamilton will be in conversation with some of the composers appearing in the concert by the Nash Ensemble, directed by Martyn Brabbins, at 7.30, Colin Matthews, George Benjamin, John Casken, Julian Anderson and Mark-Anthony Turnage which will also feature the soprano Claire Booth and tenor Mark Padmore. It’s the ensemble’s annual Nash Inventions concert.

Wednesday, March 29, at 7.30pm: The Van Kuijk Quartet plays Mozart’s Hunt Quartet, Debussy’s and Mendelssohn’s F minor Quartet, Op 80

Thursday, March 30, at 11.30am and 1am: 'For Crying Out Loud!' - two children’s concerts with the Kyan Quartet and presenter Lucy Drever.

Thursday, March 30, at 7.30pm: The Dunedin Consort directed by Benjamin Bayl with the soprano Nardus Williams present ‘Handel in Rome’.

Friday, March 31 at 7.30pm: The cellist Anastasia Kobekina with Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula (piano) play Brahms’s two sonatas and Schumann’s Fantasiestücke and the Adagio and Allegro in A flat.

Full details and tickets at Wigmore Hall where you can also find details of Gramophone’s Centenary Concert on May the 14^th with performances by pianists Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Bertrand Chamayou, Cédric Tiberghien and Martin James Bartlett, violinist Alina Ibragimova, guitarists Sean Shibe and Milos, and singers Carolyn Sampson, Fatma Said, Emma Sventelius and Karim Sulayman with accompanists Joseph Middleton and Malcolm Martineau.  

Tickets for Wigmore Hall concerts between April and July are on sale now