The Listening Room (4.9.21)
- Saturday, September 4, 2021
Some of the most ear-catching recent releases
Some of the most ear-catching recent releases
Nicola Benedetti's Baroque in Battersea reminded us just what we've been missing
Concertos by Copland, Kapustin and Poulenc, Wagner's Wesendonck-Lieder sung by Anja Harteros and a feast of pre-release tracks from Víkingur Ólafsson, Daniil Trifonov, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Igor Levit,...
Nicola Benedetti plays Vivaldi, Long Yu conducts Xiaogang Ye's response to Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, Yeol Eum Son plays Kapustin, and William Christie and Théotime Langlois de Swarte play a...
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The conductor pays tribute to Louise Farrenc, a composer whose works deserve a place in symphonic programmes and in the discography
Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich, Vasily Petrenko makes his last recording as MD of the RLPO, Jan Lisiecki and Seong-Jin Cho play Chopin and Elena Fischer-Dieskau plays Brahms
The Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields on how the church's charitable and musical lives relate
Tomorrow night, we’ll know who has won the 2021 Malko Competition. The contest in Copenhagen has taught us plenty of lessons along the way...
The German pianist Sebastian Knauer on the story behind his latest project, ‘The Mozart Nyman Concert’
Daniel Barenboim conducts Debussy, Kate Lindsey sings Bartolomeo Monari, Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Francisco Coll and Leif Ove Andsnes plays and conducts Mozart, plus a video track from Oliver...
The British cellist follows up from his blog last year, explaining how his desire to keep classical music alive during the pandemic has taken him to France for some wide-ranging artistic projects
Richard Strauss from Bertrand Chamayou and Antonio Pappano, Julian Bliss and James Baillieu play Brahms, Weber from Anna Prohaska and Matthias Kirschnereit and Florence Price from Randall Goosby. Plus...
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
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