A celebration of Satie
- Friday, May 7, 2021
Peter Dickinson recalls how the French composer's profile increased radically in the 1970s - and the role he played in that
Peter Dickinson recalls how the French composer's profile increased radically in the 1970s - and the role he played in that
Excerpts taken from Warner Classics' 96-CD celebration of the conductor, composer and pianist
Beethoven's Violin Concerto from Vadim Gluzman, Brahms by Julian Bliss, Mozart's concert arias starring Lisette Oropesa, a melancholy recital from Jean Rondeau and the powerful orchestral works of Magnus Lindberg
The co-founder and drummer of The Police on taming the ‘complicated beast’ that is the orchestra
How Poulenc's own performances made Mark Bebbington question his approach to a composer's score
Some of the most ear-catching recent releases – including Joby Talbot from Miloš, Tchaikovsky from Paavo Järvi, and Ysaÿe played by James Ehnes – and a tribute to the late and great Christa Ludwig
Miloš returns with 'The Moon & The Forest', Alina Ibragimova plays Paganini's 24 Caprices, 'The Harmonious Echo: Songs by Sir Arthur Sullivan', Ysaÿe's Six Sonatas for Solo Violin from James Ehnes, Trio Wanderer's Schumann
Co-founder of Pink Floyd, the guitarist, singer and composer Roger Waters on classical music in his life
The journalist and presenter of Channel 4 News since 1989 reveals how his love of music was instilled in him from early childhood
Why the rarely-heard oratorio La Resurrezione is a perfect project for our times
Mark Stone and Simon Lepper perform a work from King's College, Cambridge's celebration of English song
Joyce DiDonato and Yannick Nézet-Séguin embark on Schubert's Winterreise, Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth tackle Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt records a live Brahms Second Symphony in Leipzig, and more...
The dramatic performance is taken from their new Delphian album, out today
Fifty years after the composer’s death, Riccardo Chailly and Teodor Currentzis talk to Peter Quantrill about what can – and can’t – be learnt from Stravinsky’s own recordings
To mark Earth Day, I Fagiolini performs a powerful programme built around T.S. Eliot’s epic poem
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