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The classical recording industry produces an annual trove of new releases. For listeners who want more than a track excerpt or review to help inform their choices, KBACH's Michael Keelan and Greg Kostraba talk with the recordings' musicians and related experts about select new albums.
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Average audio length:
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Guest interviews
English
United States
40 episodes
since Nov. 4, 2025
episodic
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The Sturm und Drang movement swept through the arts in the late eighteenth century, bringing drama and heightened emotion. Conductor Ian Page is in the midst of a large recording project with his ensemble The Mozartists to document that artistic movement. Each volume features symphonies alongside v…
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Cellist Camille Thomas was personally invited by Philip Glass to play his two cello concertos ahead of the pioneering American composer's ninetieth birthday this season. A new album includes the concertos with the Brussels Philharmonic alongside arrangements of Glass's piano music. Michael Keelan t…
Anna Besson teaches flute at the Brussels and Amsterdam conservatories. Her new album with her ensemble A Nocte Temporis contains all the Mozart flute quartets along with Hoffmeister's arrangement of Mozart's piano sonata, K.311 for the same instrumentation. KBACH's Michael Keelan talked with Besso…
Connor Chee is a Diné (Navajo) composer and pianist who plays his own music on a new album, "Sandpaintings." The title refers to a form of Native art with healing properties, rich in symbolism and cultural references. The music reflects those visual representations in a carefully designed cycle. KB…
Béla Bartók composed 44 short duos for two violins, initially for use in an educational method. Their musical rigor makes them suitable for concert performance, and a new recording with violinist Alexandra Preucil and violist Antoine Tamestit intersperses the duos with the original field recordings…
Arthur Sullivan is famous for the comic operettas he wrote with wordsmith William S. Gilbert. A new debut album from tenor David Webb features many excerpts from G&S, as they’re known, but also a few of Sullivan’s more serious efforts. The Academy of Ancient Music lends a distinctly Victorian t…
Cincinnati-based composer Rick Sowash has released a new album of his music for clarinet and piano on his RSP Classics label. The release, Full Circle, features clarinetist Christopher Bade with KBACH's Greg Kostraba at the piano. Greg talked with Sowash about his varied career, his love of writing…
The Apollo Chamber Players consistently explore contemporary American culture on their albums. We the People features recent commissions often with texts reflective of aspects of democracy and the experience of ethnically diverse groups in the US. The wide variety of textures includes narrator, ele…
The combination of clarinet, viola, and piano was established by Mozart in his "Kegelstatt" Trio, K.498. A new recording of that masterpiece with clarinetist Luigi Magistrelli also has three other pieces by composers following in Mozart's footsteps after his lifetime. KBACH's Michael Keelan talked …
Susan Graham is one of America’s most recognized mezzo-sopranos. Her first recording of Samuel Barber’s opera Vanessa was in the role of Erika and a new recording features her as the Baroness. From July 18 to August 19 Graham appears in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at Santa Fe Opera. KBACH’s Michael…
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