Best Grieg Podcasts (2024)

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Alexandra Dariescu on the piano concertos of Clara Schumann and Edvard Grieg 37:29

27m ago37:29

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This week on the Gramophone Podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford meets pianist Alexandra Dariescu who has recorded the piano concertos of Clara Schumann and Edvard Grieg for Signum with the Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Tianyi Lu. Dariescu talks about her passion for Clara Schumann's concerto, and why she thinks it should be much more widely p…

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Episode 200: 200th Episode Celebration, Part 1 56:18

19m ago56:18

56:18

Thank you so much for sticking around with us for 200 episodes! We really love making this podcast, and we're happy to have our little following. We're going to keep listening to music and talking about it, and we're happy to have you follow us on this journey. Be sure to like and share with a friend! Music: https://imslp.org/wiki/21_Hungarian_Danc…

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Composer Anna Clyne on her new album 'Shorthand' 24:21

1h ago24:21

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A new album mapping 10 years of string writing, Anna Clyne's Shorthand takes its name from a concerto for cello and strings, performed on the album by Yo Yo Ma. Hattie Butterworth meets Anna to speak about this new project, as well as her BBC Proms commission and the impact of words, poetry and spirituality on her writing.…

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Leonard Bernstein the Composer – with Edward Seckerson 45:30

4d ago45:30

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Leonard Bernstein (1918-90) was perhaps the most ‘complete’ classical musician of the last century, as composer (covering everything from Broadway musicals to serial orchestral works), conductor (one of the 20th century’s most admired), teacher or pianist. Edward Seckerson interviewed Bernstein for Gramophone in December 1989, but his admiration we…

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Karajan's video legacy - with Richard Osborne 44:23

11d ago44:23

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The great Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan (1908-89) was fascinated with technology from an early age, and, from the early 1960s onward, he filmed many of his performances. Deutsche Grammophon’s streaming service Stage+ has a huge archive of Karajan’s films including his Telemondial legacy – recorded with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics d…

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Episode 202: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5, Mvt. 4 23:54

16d ago23:54

23:54

We've made it to the end of Symphony No. 5! We hope you've enjoyed it as much as we have! Be sure to like and share with a friend! Music: https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.5%2C_Op.64_(Tchaikovsky%2C_Pyotr) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcodeBy Rocky Mountain Student Media

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Podcast revisited: Rob Cowan on listening to historic recordings 47:34

28d ago47:34

47:34

As we step into the summer holiday period, this week we thought we’d revisit one of our special longer-length episodes from last year featuring one of our writers, our historical recording expert Rob Cowan on what we can gain from listening to recordings from the past. Why should we listen to historic recordings? What can we learn from them, and wh…

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Soprano Sophie Bevan on overcoming adversity 40:15

1M ago40:15

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Hattie Butterworth meets soprano Sophie Bevan ahead of her appearance at the First Night of the Proms. Moving through Sophie's early life and career, they speak about her experience navigating a diagnosis of bowel cancer, the importance of her faith and family, and what she wishes audiences knew about the life of a singer. Music included in the eps…

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Episode 201: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5, Mvt. 3 13:55

1M ago13:55

13:55

Yes, we're back as promised with the next installment of Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 5. Be sure to like and share with a friend! Music: https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.5%2C_Op.64_(Tchaikovsky%2C_Pyotr) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcodeBy Rocky Mountain Student Media

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Dalia's Mixtape: Judith Weir's 'Still, Glowing' 16:31

1M ago16:31

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In April, Dalia Stasevska, Chief Conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, launched a new project, ‘Dalia’s Mixtape’, for Platoon. Leading her BBC orchestra, she has recorded ten works by ten modern composers, each shedding a new and different light on the symphony orchestra and what it c…

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Harry Christophers at 70: The Sixteen's founder on a life in music 47:20

1M ago47:20

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Conductor and founder of The Sixteen Harry Christophers speaks to Gramophone Editor Martin Cullingford about his new album, ‘70: A Life in Music’, which features 39 carefully selected recordings from the conductor's career so far, spanning periods from the renaissance to contemporary music. Reflecting on his 45-year career, Christophers' talks abou…

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Episode 199: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, Mvt 2 18:14

2M ago18:14

18:14

It's time for movement 2! We hope your ready for some more Fate! Be sure to rate and share with a friend Music: https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.5%2C_Op.64_(Tchaikovsky%2C_Pyotr) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcodeBy Rocky Mountain Student Media

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Héloïse Werner on her new album 'Close-ups' 30:31

2M ago30:31

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Soprano and composer Héloïse Werner speaks to Gramophone Editor Martin Cullingford about her new album, ‘Close-ups’, which features composers Barbara Strozzi, Julie Pinel and Hildegard of Bingen as well as compositions by Werner herself. Her second album sees her collaborating with fellow musicians Colin Alexander, Julian Azkoul, Max Baillie, Kit D…

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Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy on their piano four-hands debut album 32:16

2M ago32:16

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For their debut Harmonia Mundi release as a duo, pianists Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy have recorded two works by Schubert, the great Fantasy in F minor and the Divertissement à la Hongroise, and, in between, a work they commissioned, Trompe-l’oeil by the Russian composer Leonid Desyatnikov (b1955), who has said of his piece, ‘You can envisage …

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Episode 198: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, Mvt. I 23:26

2M ago23:26

23:26

Back by popular request, we're doing more Tchaikovsky! Be sure to share with a friend! Music: https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.5%2C_Op.64_(Tchaikovsky%2C_Pyotr) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcodeBy Rocky Mountain Student Media

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Magdalena Kožená on her new album 'Czech Songs' 20:40

2M ago20:40

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Mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená speaks to Gramophone Editor Martin Cullingford about her new album, ‘Czech Songs’, which features composers Bohuslav Martinů, Antonín Dvořák, Hans Krása and Gideon Klein, and for which she's joined by the Czech Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle. ‘Czech Songs’ is out now on Pentatone.…

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Nicholas Phan on 'A Change is Gonna Come' 25:46

3M ago25:46

25:46

The American tenor Nicholas Phan has just released an album of protest songs, many from the 1960s by legendary singer-songwriters like Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds. It also contains a new work by Errollyn Wallen. ‘A Change in Gonna Come’, featuring Palaver Strings, and a couple of guest appearances by Farayi Malek, is …

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Episode 197: Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture 20:48

3M ago20:48

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We're back after hiatus! Please welcome back some Tchaikovsky music as well, and be sure like share with a friend! Music: https://imslp.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet_(overture-fantasia)%2C_TH_42_(Tchaikovsky%2C_Pyotr) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcodeBy Rocky Mountain Student Media

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Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante by Frédéric Chopin 19:48

2M ago19:48

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🎹 Join me for the Summer Piano Intensive this August! 🎁 The FREE online course: “The Secrets of How to Memorize Music” Subscribe to my newsletter and be my friend! I write a bi-weekly newsletter called Behind The Keys about my insights behind the scenes of the life of a classical pianist, my favorite music, and wisdom from books I read during those…

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Cellist Laura van der Heijden on her debut concerto release 20:46

3M ago20:46

20:46

Since winning BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2012, aged 15, Laura van der Heijden has enjoyed a career as a cellist to watch. She’s a Chandos artist, recording both as a soloist and also as part of Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. This month she makes her concerto debut with an album of three British cello concertos, Frank Bridge’s Oration, Sir …

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Can Çakmur on Schubert and Krenek 22:34

3M ago22:34

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This week's Gramophone Podcast sees pianist Can Çakmur join Editor Martin Cullingford to talk about the latest album in his series for the BIS label in which he pairs works by Schubert with music by composers inspired by him - in this instance Ernst Krenek. As well as introducing Krenek's Second Sonata, he also talks about the composer's completion…

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Andrè Schuen on Schubert's Winterreise 26:06

3M ago26:06

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With Winterreise, Andrè Schuen and Daniel Heide complete their recordings for DG of Schubert’s three song cycles, and have understandably saved the most challenging to last. James Jolly spoke to Andrè to discover how he approaches this colossal work, the Everest of any singer’s repertoire. This Gramophone Podcast is produced in association with Wig…

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Antonello Manacorda on Beethoven's Ninth at 200 28:16

4M ago28:16

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To mark the 200th anniversary of the premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna, which took place on May 7, 1824, Gramophone’s podcast this week focuses on the work. Antonello Manacorda has just completed a cycle of the nine symphonies with Akademie Potsdam for Sony Classical, including a brand-new Ninth. James Jolly went to visit him at the …

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Episode 196: Edvard Grieg and the Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Part 2 30:25

3M ago30:25

30:25

If you think you know what Peer Gynt is about, maybe think again! We'll give you the whole run down of the play, with the music from Suite No. 1 sprinkled in for context. Be sure to like and share with a friend! Music: https://musopen.org/music/777-peer-gynt-suite-no-1-op-46/#recordings https://imslp.org/wiki/Peer_Gynt_Suite_No.1,_Op.46_(Grieg,_Edv…

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Brindley Sherratt on his debut song recital 'Fear No More' 21:25

4M ago21:25

21:25

The British bass Brindley Sherratt has released his first solo album, ‘Fear No More’, a Delphian recording, with Julius Drake at the piano. One of the UK’s most distinguished singers, and with an international reputation on the great concert and operatic stages, Sherratt talks to James Jolly about this new, and belated, chapter in his musical caree…

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James Ehnes on Leonard Bernstein and John Williams 23:22

4M ago23:22

23:22

Violinist James Ehnes talks about his new recording for Pentatone of Leonard Bernstein's Serenade and John Williams's Violin Concerto No 1.

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Nathan Williamson and James Gilchrist on the songs of Thomas Pitfield 30:14

4M ago30:14

30:14

Thomas Pitfield, born in Bolton in 1903 and whose life stretched to the very end of the 20th century – he died in 1999 – is one of those polymaths who embraced numerous different outlets: he was a composer, a poet, an illustrator, a calligrapher, a cabinet maker and a teacher. He is probably better known for the people he knew and taught – includin…

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Episode 195: Edvard Grieg and the Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Part 1 13:27

4M ago13:27

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You know it and love it, it's the Peer Gynt Suite! We're starting this series with a bit of bio about Grieg, and we'll delve into some music in our next episode, so stay tuned! Be sure to like and share with a friend! Music: https://musopen.org/music/777-peer-gynt-suite-no-1-op-46/#recordings https://imslp.org/wiki/Peer_Gynt_Suite_No.1,_Op.46_(Grie…

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Kirill Gerstein on 'Music in the Time of War' 32:39

4M ago32:39

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Kirill Gerstein’s new album, timed for release mid-way between the anniversary of the death of Claude Debussy (March 25) and Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (April 24), pairs music by Debussy and the Armenian, Komitas. Both composers were profoundly affected by the death and destruction surrounding them during the First World War, and both respon…

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Klaus Mäkelä on recording Stravinsky in Paris: From the Archive 26:31

5M ago26:31

26:31

Klaus Mäkelä has been named Riccardo Muti's successor at the helm of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a role he assumes in 2027 alongside the post of Chief Conductor of Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Meanwhile, he remains committed to his two European orchestras, the Orchestre de Paris and the Oslo Philharmonic. Following his Decca debut…

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