Can you be a 1/4 concert pianist?
- Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Pianist Di Xiao on the pressures of balancing being a musician and parent, and lessons learned in lockdown
Pianist Di Xiao on the pressures of balancing being a musician and parent, and lessons learned in lockdown
Faust, Queyras, Melnikov and Heras-Casado play the central movement - taken from their new album
Concertos by Beethoven and Piazzolla, piano music by Bach/Saint-Saëns, Liszt and Haydn, short orchestral works by Boieldieu, Auber and Raymond Yiu, and the voices of Jodie Devos, Matthias Goerne, Lise Davidsen and Sandrine Piau
This week's highlights include Bartók's orchestral works from BBC SSO and Thomas Dausgaard, an ear-catching Beethoven Triple Concerto and Biber from Vox Luminis and Lionel Meunier
The vocal ensemble launch a series of Lenten music
This week's highlights include Benjamin Grosvenor's new Liszt album, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony from the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Mahler's Second Symphony from Adam Fischer, and Jodie Devos's 'And Love Said...'
Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston on the making of the OAE's new Purcell video
Hilary Hahn's 'Paris', Benjamin Grosvenor's 'Liszt', Ksenija Sidorova's ‘Piazzolla Reflections’, Salieri's Armida from Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset, and much more
A special excerpt from a documentary issued as part of Warner Classics's Szell anniversary boxset
I Fagiolini's imaginative use of video to convey the meaning and drama of early music have long been compelling - and gloriously quirky. The group's Director Robert Hollingworth talks us through four key projects
Christophe Rousset compares two early works composed in 1771, recently recorded with Les Talens Lyriques
This week's highlights include a new Beethoven's Ninth from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Italian 18th century music from La Serenissima and piano transcriptions performed by Zlata Chochieva
Expressive live Monteverdi from London's Baroque at the Edge festival
James Jolly and Rob Cowan discuss Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the art of interpretation and how the great recordings of the past century compare, including extracts from Carlos Kleiber, Herbert von Karajan, John Eliot Gardiner, Mariss Jansons and more
Rachmaninov from Philadelphia and Singapore, Daniel Hope playing Schnittke, Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih in Franck, and a Bach cantata from Philippe Pierlot and Ricercar Consort. Plus taster tracks by Renaud Capuçon and Stephen Hough, Jodie Devos and Joyce DiDonato
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