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Antal Doráti in London, with producer Thomas Fine
May 28, 2025
57m 02s
James Rhodes shares some of his MANíA
Mar 12, 2025
55m 33s
Rufus Wainwright on his Dream Requiem
Jan 17, 2025
24m 24s
John Suchet goes In Search of Beethoven with Rob Cowan
Nov 14, 2024
1h 00m 33s
Manfred Honeck talks to Rob Cowan about Bruckner Symphony No.7
Oct 15, 2024
1h 09m 31s
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| 5/28/25 | Antal Doráti in London, with producer Thomas Fine | Two historic box sets were recently released on the Eloquence label, dedicated to recordings the Hungarian conductor Antal Doráti made in London in the late 1950s and 1960s for the Mercury lable. Primarily focussed on his tenure with the London Symphony Orchestra, volume 2 also features the Bath Festival Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and New Philharmonia Orchestra. To discuss Doráti's time in London, I was delighted to be joined once again by Thomas Fine, son of Robert and Wilma Co... | 57m 02s | ||||||
| 3/12/25 | James Rhodes shares some of his MANíA | Matthew Ash enjoyed a wide-ranging and free-wheeling conversation with pianist James Rhodes, coinciding with the release of new album, MANíA. In a coming together of two people passionate about piano music, they discuss everything from romance in Bach to a shared dislike of music as wallpaper. Think of it as eavesdropping on a conversation, and just be aware there are a few expletives here and there. Presto Music All things musical... on your doorstep! Visit our website: www.prestomusic.com... | 55m 33s | ||||||
| 1/17/25 | Rufus Wainwright on his Dream Requiem | Matthew Ash chats with Rufus Wainwright about the premiere recording of his Dream Requiem, the recordings of Verdi's Requiem that captured his attention from an early age, and some of the other inspirations behind his diverse musical explorations. He even mentions his dog, called Puccini. Presto Music All things musical... on your doorstep! Visit our website: www.prestomusic.com Follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram Love us? Review us on Trustpilot, Facebook or Google | 24m 24s | ||||||
| 11/14/24 | John Suchet goes In Search of Beethoven with Rob Cowan | Presto Music All things musical... on your doorstep! Visit our website: www.prestomusic.com Follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram Love us? Review us on Trustpilot, Facebook or Google | 1h 00m 33s | ||||||
| 10/15/24 | Manfred Honeck talks to Rob Cowan about Bruckner Symphony No.7 | Amid the plethora of Bruckner recordings released to mark the composer’s bicentenary this year, Manfred Honeck’s account of Symphony No. 7 with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (coupled with a new commission by Mason Bates) stands out for what BBC Music Magazine described as the ‘high levels of synergy and mutual comprehension’ between conductor and orchestra as well as the sheer beauty of sound from each section. Our guest contributor Rob Cowan spoke to Maestro Honeck last month about his ... | 1h 09m 31s | ||||||
| 9/30/24 | Rebeca Omordia talks African Pianism | Pianist Rebeca Omordia recently released her second album of African piano music, African Pianism Volume 2, bringing the classical music of native composers the attention it deserves. I had the pleasure of chatting with her to find out more about the music, its background, the qualities that make it uniquely African, and common ground with Western, and particularly English, music. I also enjoyed hearing more about this award-winning pianist’s career and her fruitful relationship with SOMM Rec... | 23m 10s | ||||||
| 9/4/24 | Twenty-Five Years of LSO Live | To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the London Symphony Orchestra's own label, Head of LSO Live Becky Lees, first violinist Maxine Kwok, and principal percussionist Neil Percy talk to James about how the label came to exist, the process of capturing live concerts for release, and their memories of some favourite recordings through the years. Presto Music All things musical... on your doorstep! Visit our website: www.prestomusic.com Follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram Love ... | 51m 12s | ||||||
| 7/2/24 | Nunconventional - The Poor Clares of Arundel on their second album for Decca | Another second-album episode! A follow-up not to a trailblazingly exploratory recording (as when we spoke to Heloïse Werner last episode) but to a quietly uplifting one, filled with spirituality and peace. The Poor Clares of Arundel appeared on many people's musical radar back in 2020, when their album Light For The World was released into the midst of uncertain and difficult times. Inspired by the daily life of the community of the Poor Clares, and mixing contemporary compositions with... | 22m 20s | ||||||
| 6/17/24 | A Close-Up Look - Heloïse Werner on her latest solo album | Hot on the heels of 2022's Phases comes a second album from acclaimed young singer-composer Heloïse Werner, Close-Ups. Drawing together works by Bingen, Strozzi, the French Baroque composer Julie Pinel, and Errollyn Wallen, it also features compositions by Werner herself - including Les Leçons du Mardi, an acerbic, witty piece biting back against centuries of medical misogyny, and the title-track close-ups, a selection of wordless character-sketches that push the boundaries of song itself.&nb... | 36m 47s | ||||||
| 5/28/24 | Berliner Philharmoniker celebrates a double anniversary | This year the Berliner Philharmoniker celebrates two anniversaries, with the online Digital Concert Hall turning 15, and the Berliner Philharmoniker label marking its first decade. Rob Cowan spoke to Olaf Maninger, who alongside a busy schedule as principal cellist with the orchestra, is General Manager of Berlin Phil Media GmbH, and has been one of the key figures driving these innovative projects. Presto Music All things musical... on your doorstep! Visit our website: www.prestomusi... | 25m 09s | ||||||
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| 2/22/24 | Doubling Brahms - Busoni and his violin concerto with Francesca Dego | Violinist Francesca Dego kicks off the Busoni centenary celebrations with her new album, pairing his concerto with that of Brahms - a juxtaposition that might seem strange, until you realise (as Francesca describes) the deep connections between the two works, so much so that Busoni's concerto could even be seen as a direct homage to Brahms's. As well as discussing Busoni himself - the prolific arranger, the unorthodox music theorist, the passionate advocate of performers taking liberties with... | 37m 09s | ||||||
| 1/25/24 | An Invitation to the Dance - Storming the ‘barricades mystérieuses’ with Martin James Bartlett | Pianist Martin James Bartlett first came to many people’s attention in 2014, when he won the BBC Young Musician Award. A Proms debut followed the next year, and a recording contract with Warner Classics not long after. To date, both of Martin’s albums on Warner have been centred around a unifying core concept - recital-recordings with a clear and thoughtful point to them. His latest, La Danse, released on January 26th, is no different - and to tie in with this exploration of French dance-musi... | 28m 55s | ||||||
| 12/29/23 | La Divina - Rob Cowan and Alain Lanceron on the centenary of Maria Callas's birth | As every opera-fan must surely be aware by now, December saw the centenary of Maria Callas’s birth, and Warner Classics marked the occasion by issuing the most comprehensive collection of her recordings ever released – clocking in at a whopping 131 CDs, La Divina offers the chance to experience Callas’s unique qualities in all 74 roles for which audio documents exist, and also includes a bonus CD of alternative takes from recording-sessions in the 1960s. In this latest episode of the Presto ... | 56m 18s | ||||||
| 11/29/23 | Tudor Wild Child - Thomas Weelkes with Dr Katie Bank | Although plenty of attention has been lavished on the four hundredth anniversary of the death of William Byrd, his contemporary Thomas Weelkes also died in 1623 - on the 30th of November - and has seen rather less in the way of commemoration. In addition to Weelkes being a composer of great gifts, his reputation also rests in part on his track record of poor and unruly behaviour throughout his career, especially during his time at Chichester Cathedral; posterity has enthusiastically elaborat... | 27m 29s | ||||||
| 11/16/23 | Take me to your Lieder - Schubert in English with Roderick Williams, Rowan Pierce and Christopher Glynn | The 'Schubert in English' series on Signum Classics sees its fourth instalment this year - following up Winter Journey, Swansong and The Fair Maid of the Mill with a wider-ranging collection of songs, sung by Roderick Williams and Rowan Pierce with Christopher Glynn at the piano. Front and centre, too, are the translations of Jeremy Sams, which at last enable English-speaking audiences (and indeed singers) to experience the full vernacular immediacy of the words. For this fourth volume, Roder... | 45m 00s | ||||||
| 10/27/23 | Sound the Trombone! Onyx Brass at 30 with Amos Miller | As "the classiest brass ensemble in Britain" turns 30, Onyx Brass's trombonist Amos Miller looks back over three decades of brass quintet music-making, with an eye on exploring contemporary repertoire. We discuss the group's latest album, 'The sun is free to flow with the sea', and some of the works featured on it, as well as touching on questions of diversity in classical music - but we start off with a look at music education in today's world. Presto Music All things musical... on your doo... | 25m 16s | ||||||
| 9/22/23 | A Great Musical Dett - Choral Music by Black Composers with Dr Marques Garrett | A discussion of the OUP's recently-published collection of sacred and secular choral works by Black composers, with its editor Dr Marques Garrett - taking in Vicente Lusitano, Undine Smith Moore, R Nathaniel Dett (Dr Garrett's own particular labour of love) and more. Presto Music All things musical... on your doorstep! Visit our website: www.prestomusic.com Follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram Love us? Review us on Trustpilot, Facebook or Google | 34m 56s | ||||||
| 8/11/23 | Standing out from the Crowd - Arthur Bliss with Paul Spicer | Arthur Bliss was one of the most important British musicians of his age. Having served with distinction in the Great War, in which he was both injured and gassed, he subsequently became the most performed British composer abroad. He served as Director of Music at the BBC from 1942-44, and was appointed Master of the Queen’s Music in 1953. Bliss was a private figure who stated that the only way to get to know him was through his music. Author Paul Spicer took this as his starting point for a p... | 50m 54s | ||||||
| 8/4/23 | A Russian Soul in Exile - Rachmaninoff with Fiona Maddocks | The great Russian Romantic composer Sergei Rachmaninoff declared that his music was "the product of his temperament, therefore Russian", but he spent the final 26 years of life in exile after fleeing Russia in 1917. While in exile he composed his late masterpieces including the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the Symphonic Dances, while also preserving his legendary piano playing for posterity through a series of recordings. To discuss this fascinating period of Rachmaninoff's lif... | 51m 26s | ||||||
| 7/20/23 | A Mercury Legend - Antal Doráti with Rob Cowan and Thomas Fine | Earlier this year we saw the release of not one, but two box sets dedicated to recordings by the Minnesota Orchestra under their Hungarian conductor Antal Doráti, recordings made by the Mercury Record Company in the 1950's. To discuss the artistic and sonic legacy of these Mono and Stereo box sets I was privileged to be joined not only by record critic Rob Cowan but also by Thomas Fine, the son of the husband and wife team of Robert and Wilma Cozart Fine who produced these recordings a... | 1h 11m 35s | ||||||
| 6/28/23 | Belle de nuit – Chatting to Emmanuel Despax about 'Après un rêve' | Some "concept" albums can seem a little contrived – with themes not so much neatly interwoven as crudely welded onto one another. Not so Emmanuel Despax's new album Après un rêve, which draws together its three main ideas so naturally that it seems as if the album must have sprung from Despax's mind fully formed. A poetic legacy from his music-loving grandfather meets Emmanuel's own interest in the refined music of the French belle époque (from about the mid-1870s until 1914, when Europe cha... | 18m 29s | ||||||
| 6/19/23 | Brahms In The Time Machine – Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem with Lionel Meunier | Over the nearly twenty years since its formation, Vox Luminis has appeared in our metaphorical pages plenty of times – the Belgian early music ensemble consistently combines original and exploratory programming with impeccable musicianship. Every album Lionel Meunier and his musicians release can be relied on to be not just a feast for the ears but also an interesting and well-thought-out dive into musical history, drawing connections and parallels and linking everything together seamlessly. ... | 34m 40s | ||||||
| 4/21/23 | I've Started, So I'll Finish – A Return to Mozart with Robert Levin | Robert Levin set out to record a complete set of Mozart's works for keyboard and orchestra. After several highly successful and critically-acclaimed volumes over the following decade, fate eventually intervened to force the project into the deep freeze, and on that unsatisfying note the story might have ended. Happily, though, circumstances have now opened up the opportunity to pick things up again. The concluding five volumes are now very much in motion, with the first released recent... | 26m 50s | ||||||
| 3/30/23 | Tom & Will (& Jimmy & Roddy) – Tudor Anniversaries with Fretwork and The King's Singers | 2023 sees the quadricentennials of the deaths of both William Byrd - sacred polyphonist, virginalist and recusant Catholic - and Thomas Weelkes, remembered especially for his madrigals, his verse services and his repeated tellings-off by his bosses at Chichester Cathedral for what might delicately be termed rowdiness. Among various groups with albums in honour of these two composers are The King's Singers and Fretwork, who come together on the recently-released *Tom & Will* to perf... | 17m 45s | ||||||
| 3/22/23 | Golden Oldies - The Brodsky Quartet at 50 | Founded by four ambitious teenagers in Middlesbrough in 1972, the Brodsky Quartet’s extraordinary fifty-year career has encompassed collaborations with musicians including Sting, Björk and Sir Paul McCartney as well as a whole host of superb recordings of core repertoire from Mozart to Bartók. It was a great pleasure to be joined by cellist and founder-member Jacqueline Thomas and her husband Paul Cassidy (who became the quartet’s viola-player in the early 1980s) for a whistle-stop tour thro... | 56m 04s | ||||||
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