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Episode 29: Eine kleine Havanamusik with Sarah Willis 5th September 2022Horn-player Sarah Willis discusses the second of her Cuban-inspired albums, and the connections between Mozart and Latin American dance.
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Episode 28: Karel Ančerl Live with Rob Cowan and Matouš Vlčinský 27th February 2022The live recordings by the great Czech conductor Karel Ančerl, and Bohemian musical culture are explored by Rob Cowan and Matouš Vlčinský from Supraphon records.
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Episode 27: A Life in Notes - The Art of Music Biography 13th February 2022This week three eminent music biographers join Paul for a round-table discussion on the art of writing a music biography.
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Episode 26: On the Fiddle with Charlotte Gardner 12th December 2021This week we are joined by writer Charlotte Gardner to discuss changing styles of violin-playing over the past hundred years.
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Episode 25: The Story of Presto Music with Chris O'Reilly 14th November 2021To celebrate Presto Music's double anniversary we invited our very own Chris O'Reilly onto the show to talk about how it grew from a small CD shop in Leamington Spa to become one of the global leaders in online music retail.
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Episode 24: On Song with The Hermes Experiment 31st October 2021Paul meets the members of The Hermes Experiment, one of the UK's most innovative contemporary music groups, in the week that their second album is released on Delphian Records.
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Episode 23: Wilhelm Furtwängler with Rob Cowan & David Hurwitz 17th October 2021Rob Cowan and David Hurwitz join Paul to discuss the merits of Warner's recent 55 disc boxset devoted to the recordings of the iconic German conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler.
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Episode 22: Musicological Musings with Daniel Elphick 4th October 2021Musicologists - who are they, what do they want, and who keeps feeding 'em? Paul gets to the nub of all of these questions with the help of Daniel Elphick.
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Episode 21: A Great Dane - Andrew Mellor on Carl Nielsen 12th September 2021Andrew Mellor returns to the show to discuss the music of Carl Nielsen, one of the twentieth century's most fascinating symphonists.
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Episode 20: Fresh Air in the Pipes - Organ Music with Anna Lapwood 29th August 2021This week's guest is one of Britain's most talented young organists, Anna Lapwood, giving us a potted history of the organ's history, and a tour of her eclectic new record, Images.
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Episode 19: Classical Comedy with Rainer Hersch 4th July 2021Comedian Rainer Hersch joins Paul for a potted history of the art of cocking a snook at the strait-laced world of classical music.
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Episode 18: A Tale of Three Conductors with Rob Cowan 25th May 2021Podcast regular Rob Cowan joins Paul to assess recent archival boxsets devoted to three émigré American conductors: Artur Rodzinski, Rafael Kubelik, and Eugene Ormandy.
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Episode 17 Bonus: Pierrot Lunaire with Patricia Kopatchinskaja 2nd May 2021For this special bonus episode of the podcast, Patricia Kopatchinskaja tells us about her longstanding relationship with Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire.
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Episode 16: Britain, by George! - Handel with Suzanne Aspden 25th April 2021Professor Suzanne Aspden joins Paul to trace Handel's journey from the youthful Italian cantatas & operas to his later English oratorios.
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Episode 15: Clarinet Chronicles with Julian Bliss 11th April 2021Paul is given a guided tour of the clarinet's history by Julian Bliss, from its first appearances in the eighteenth century, up to the present day, and the important role it played in the development of jazz.
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Episode 14: The Music of Malcolm Arnold with Piers Burton-Page 21st March 2021Author and President of the Malcolm Arnold Society, Piers Burton-Page, gives an overview of the life and work of this important voice in twentieth-century British music.
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Episode 13: Symphonic Titans - Bruckner & Mahler with Peter Quantrill 7th March 2021Bruckner and Mahler are the focus of this week's show, as Paul Thomas is joined by Gramophone writer Peter Quantrill to assess a couple of recent box-sets devoted to each composer.
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Episode 12: A Song in Our Hearts with Natasha Loges 11th February 2021In this Valentine's Day Special, Paul talks with author Natasha Loges about the art of Romantic song, as it moved from Vienna to Leipzig in the nineteenth Century.
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Episode 11: Tinkling the Ivories with Harriet Smith 27th January 2021After a short break, the Presto Music Podcast is back, and for this first episode, Harriet Smith and Paul Thomas talk through some of their favourite pianists.
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Episode 10: Across the Pond with David Hurwitz 15th December 2020In the final Podcast of 2020 Paul and American writer, YouTuber and hilarious classical commentator David Hurwitz exchange music from each other's nations that has made an impact on them.