Best Monteverdi Choir Orchestras Podcasts (2024)

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183: Sarah Alexander OBE & the National Youth Orchestra 1:05:02

14d ago1:05:02

1:05:02

Recorded in Stoke on Trent where members of the NYO - the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain are rehearsing for their summer concert tour in which they perform music by Wagner, Mahler, and Missy Mazolli at Bridgewater Hall on 7 August, Saffron Hall in Cambridgeshire on 9th, and finally the BBC Proms on 10th August.…

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182: Pianist Alexandra Dariescu 43:24

1M ago43:24

43:24

This Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast episode features Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu who, on the 16th August releases her recording of Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor (pared the Grieg Piano Concerto). She's also playing a major role in the Leeds International Piano Competition later this year giving the first Alexandra Darie…

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181: Mezzo Soprano Fleur Barron 36:29

2M ago36:29

36:29

The Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast hears from mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron in this episode, previewing her appearance at the 2024 Ryedale Festival in particular her collaboration with dancer Suleiman Suleiman and musician Hibiki Ichikawa intertwining a Japanese Kabuki play with Schubert's iconic Winterreise song cycle. In this podcast Fleur …

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180: Organist James McVinnie 29:50

2M ago29:50

29:50

Organist and pianist James McVinnie is Artist in Residence at Southbank Centre in London this year. His programming like many of his recordings often juxtaposes old and new These juxtapositions can bring about a delicious kind of cognitive shift for the listener. James explored his art, his approach to performance and explains more about his fascin…

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179: Ton Koopman at BachFest 23:34

2M ago23:34

23:34

Conductor, organist, harpsichordist and lovely man Ton Koopman riffs on the joys of JS Bach at BachFest in Leipzig, ahead of his festival in the Dordogne - Itineraire Baroque - where he and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra will be performing Bach’s St John Passion.

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178: Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert at Aldeburgh Festival 25:08

2M ago25:08

25:08

Jon Jacob speaks to ETO General Director Robin Norton-Hale and members of the cast and production team about the English Touring Opera production of Blond Eckbert that opens the 75th Aldeburgh Festival on 7th June 2024.

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177: Ben Levy from Classics Explained 31:49

5M ago31:49

31:49

How can recontextualising classical music help build a new audience for the genre? Classics Explained YouTube producer Ben Levy explores the opportunities he's discovered using animation to tell the story of some of classics most-loved works, and some of the pushback he's received doing so.

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176: Cellist Tim Posner 24:07

5M ago24:07

24:07

This episode spotlights a new release from cellist Tim Posner. Recorded weeks ago, this episode has I'm sorry to say been subject to all manner of technical challenges. Publication has been delayed as a result. But all good things come to those who wait. And this is GOOD. Tim Posner's debut album includes music by Bloch, Bruch and Dohnanyi is a cas…

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175: Monteverdi Choir's Israel in Egypt 28:57

5M ago28:57

28:57

Hailstones, frogs and sexy trills. Monteverdi Choir's director Peter Whelan joins Amy Wood and Nick Pritchard to introduce the detail and the colour in Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt.

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174: On Conducting and Learning to Conduct 18:40

6M ago18:40

18:40

LPO Principal Concductor Edward Gardner, and LPO Conducting Fellows Charlotte Politi and Luis Castillo-Briceño reflecting on their roles as conductors and the process of developing their conducting presence.

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173: Reflections, Recommendations & Previews 45:36

8M ago45:36

45:36

Lovely people from across the classical music industry share their reflections on the year gone by, and look forward to the year ahead. Hear thoughts and recommendations from violinist Fenella Humphreys, pianist Charles Owen, Roger Wright, London Chamber Orchestra's Jocelyn Lightfoot, Manchester Camerata's Bob Riley and Manchester Collective's Rakh…

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172: Thomas Guthrie and Barokksolistene 19:43

9M ago19:43

19:43

Schubert's epic and much-revered song cycle Die Schoene Mullerin is given a folksy feel with a new recording released by Rubicon Classics featuring Barokksolistene and Thomas Guthrie (who you'll hear in this podcast episode). If you're pro-deference this one probably isn't for you, but if you're open, curious or in need of a fresh approach then com…

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171: Katharine Dain and Sam Armstrong introduce 'Forget This Night' 33:30

9M ago33:30

33:30

Soprano Katharine Dain and pianist Sam Armstrong reflect on the recording of their latest ravishing duo album Forget This Night, featuring the music of Lili Boulanger, Karol Szymanowski, and Grażyna Bacewicz.

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170: Ivors Award-Winners John Rutter & Tansy Davies 20:37

10M ago20:37

20:37

Hear the thoughts and reflections of two Ivor Award-Winning composers - John Rutter and Tansy Davies. Both doing the same thing - writing music. Both creating entirely different work. At the 2023 Awards at the British Film Institute in London, Tansy Davies received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Works Collection. John Rutter received the Aca…

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169: Making Callas - Paris, 1958 23:34

10M ago23:34

23:34

Producer and Director Tom Volf explores his fascination with soprano Maria Callas and the work involved restoring her 1958 Paris debut for cinema release.

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168: Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht 15:29

10M ago15:29

15:29

Violinist Victoria Mullova and cellist Matthew Barley explore Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht.

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167: Miloš Karadaglić introduces 'Baroque' 19:16

10M ago19:16

19:16

Guitarist Miloš Karadaglić reflects on his work producing the new album 'Baroque' released October 2023.

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166: Pianist Cordelia Williams introduces Cascade 32:53

11M ago32:53

32:53

Cordelia Williams returns to the Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast to talk about her new album on SOMM 'Cascade', and to reflect on her experiences teaching in Kenya.

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165: Pianist Lucy Parham 37:00

11M ago37:00

37:00

Lucy Parham introduces selected piano works by Sergei Rachmaninoff ahead of her London Piano Festival appearance with actor Tim McInnery. For more information and tickets visit: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/london-piano-festival/

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164: Composer Joseph Phibbs 33:01

11M ago33:01

33:01

Composer Joseph Phibbs returns to the podcast to introduce two new pieces premiered at Hatfield Chamber Music Festival and Wigmore Hall on 29th October and 7th October.

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163: Composer Matthew Taylor 21:13

12M ago21:13

21:13

Ahead of the world premiere of Matthew Taylor's second horn concerto, Jon Jacob speaks to the composer about his work, his inspiration and the life force of Beethoven.

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162: Benedetti's Call To Action 6:32

1y ago6:32

6:32

Nicola Benedetti announces the new Benedetti Baroque Sessions, a competition to participate in her Baroque orchestra, plus she pops up on Radio 4's Today to talk about what music education needs now.

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161: Lost Voices with Prof Leah Broad and Violinist Fenella Humphreys 36:48

1y ago36:48

36:48

Dr Leah Broad's book Quartet tells the story of four women composers who have received little or no attention by the classical music world. The lives of Ethyl Smyth, Dorothy Howell, Rebecca Clarke and Doreen Carwithen span the 20th century and yet their music was, until a few years ago, relatively unheard of. Quartet - a substantial history of four…

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160: Horn player Felix Klieser 25:41

1y ago25:41

25:41

Klieser plays the horn with his feet. This seemingly monumental achievement is of comparatively little consequence to Felix who sees himself not as a differently abled artist but as a musician who wants to make the audience happy. At a point in time when identity, representation and opportunity are words that rightly weigh heavily in our present-da…

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159: The Endz with Flame, Prince and the Multi-Story Orchestra 21:17

2y ago21:17

21:17

The Endz is a production mounted by school children in South London, supported by the Multi Story Orchestra, a radical performance group well-known in the industry for mounting live performances in a former multi story car park (now known as Bold Tendencies) in Peckham. Since its Proms appearances in 2016 and 2017, the team behind the orchestra led…

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158: Composer and vocalist Laura Bowler about her new opera 'The Blue Woman' 29:50

2y ago29:50

29:50

RPS award-winning composer and vocalist Laura Bowler talks about her newest opera 'The Blue Woman', and her climate-change inspired collaboration with Cordelia Lynn, 'Houses Slide'. TICKETS: https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/the-blue-woman-by-katie-mitchell-details Laura's new work Distance is premiered by Juliet Fraser and the Talea Ensemb…

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157: Celebrating 50 years of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme 31:13

2y ago31:13

31:13

This year Aldeburgh Festival celebrates 50 years of the artist development programme - a music-making experience rooted in the Suffolk countryside that has supported many of the world's leading musicians. In this episode, previous participants reflect on their experience attending the Britten-Pears Orchestra and courses at the Britten-Pears School …

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156: Yaniewicz & Green Square Piano 28:16

2y ago28:16

28:16

Josie Dixon the great great great great grandaughter of Polish Lithuanian violinist and composer Felix Yaniewicz explains how a chance discovery unearthed a series of discoveries about the man in her family she knew only from a portrait. https://www.yaniewicz.org/piano.html

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155: Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston introduces her new album Battle Cry 32:11

2+ y ago32:11

32:11

Helen Charlston and Toby Carr release 'Battle Cry' in May 2022 - available from 27th on Delphian records featuring songs by Barbara Strozzi, Henry Purcell, John Eccles, Claudio Monteverdi & Owain Park. To coincide with the release, both performers appear at the London Festival of Baroque at St John's Smith Square and the Norfolk and Norwich Festiva…

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154: Composer Tom Coult introduces the new opera 'Violet' 20:36

2+ y ago20:36

20:36

Written in 2019 and originally premiering at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2020, Tom Coult and Alice Birch's 'Violet' tells the 24-day story of a village discovering the gradual loss of time. Recorded at rehearsals in the Jerwood Space in London in May 2022. 'Violet' opens the 2022 Aldeburgh Festival on 3 June. 🎫 https://brittenpearsarts.org/events/vio…

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153: Composer Oliver Davis 37:07

2+ y ago37:07

37:07

Released on Friday 6 May, 'Air' features a collection composer Oliver Davis' characteristically uplifting writing performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Kerensa Peacock, and Grace Davidson. Jon Jacob speaks to Davis about his dyslexia, his compositional influences, and his commercial writing experience. This podcast was recorded in March 20…

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151: The Opera Story's 'Beauty and the Seven Beasts' 11:08

2+ y ago11:08

11:08

"Beauty and the Seven Beasts is possibly the most incredible but also the most challenging Opera Story project so far." Opera Story Hamish McKay, soprano Katherine Aitken, Dan de Sousa, and conductor Berrek Dyer talk about this new work combining the librettos and music of eight composers in one chamber opera staged at Brixton Jamm, 6-14 April 2022…

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150: Violinist James Ehnes 21:13

2+ y ago21:13

21:13

On the day James Ehnes was meant to be playing Berg's Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, we meet on Zoom to discuss intonation, Walton, and being a tourist in London.

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149 Southbank Director of Music Gillian Moore 34:50

2+ y ago34:50

34:50

How did Gillian Moore's musical upbringing shape her views about the relevance of music in the lives of everyone today? Ahead of her appearance a the Association of British Orchestras conference in Glasgow in February 2022, she reflects on her own experiences and offers some thoughts on what we need to do next to secure music in the lives of future…

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148: Baritone Benjamin Appl on Winterreise 34:40

2+ y ago34:40

34:40

Baritone Benjamin Appl prepared for his first ever performance of Schubert epic song cycle Winterreise by learning the work on a four-hour car journey back in 2010. Twelve years later he's recorded it with pianist James Baillieu both as an album and in a documentary made by John Bridcut. Baillieu and Appl perform live at Wigmore Hall on 18th Februa…

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147: Ivors Composer Awards 2021 27:28

2+ y ago27:28

27:28

Jon Jacob speaks to a selection of Ivors Composer Award Winners from 2021 backstage at the ceremony in the British Museum.

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146: Clarinettist Barnaby Robson 22:36

2+ y ago22:36

22:36

Clarinettist Barnaby Robson discusses his latest release on Orchid Classics.

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145: Royal Overseas League Gold Medal 2021 Preview 20:12

3y ago20:12

20:12

Hear participants Ryan Corbett, Milly Forrest, Mathias Balzart, David Zucchi and members of the Echea String Quartet, plus artistic director Geoff Parkin discuss the importance of the Royal Overseas League Music Competition. The Gold Medal 2021 will be staged at the Royal Overseas League in London on Wednesday 24 November. Watch live on YouTube htt…

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144: Director Daisy Evans and conductor Stephen Higgins 28:53

3y ago28:53

28:53

Theatre of Sound director Daisy Evans and conductor Stephen Higgins are currently mid-way through a run of a new of Bartók’s only opera Bluebeard's Castle. Their work reimagines the piece as a love story between a long-married couple – Duke Bluebeard and Judith – both coming to terms with living with dementia. The production is staged at Stone Nest…

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143: Composer Electra Perivolaris 25:26

3y ago25:26

25:26

Composer Electra Perivolaris talks about her collaboration with a Devonshire couple living with dementia, capturing their musical memories and reworking them in a brand new chamber opera, performed on Saturday 6 and 13 November 2021. Tickets via the Theatre of Sound website : https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theatreofsound/576577…

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142: English Concert Artistic Director Harry Bicket 34:36

3y ago34:36

34:36

English Concert artistic director Harry Bicket talks about Handel's Samson, the opera Alcina. Bicket also explains the three things others find annoying about him. Lateness is one of them. What are the other three?

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141: Pianist Pavel Kolesnikov 37:23

3y ago37:23

37:23

Pianist Pavel Kolesnikov appears at The Two Moors Festival in October 2021 in a programme of Bach's Goldberg Variations. In this podcast he explores identity, the careers he might pursue if he had the time, and 'those shoes'.By Thoroughly Good Podcast

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140: Tenor Nicky Spence and Help Musicians UK CEO James Ainscough 13:15

3y ago13:15

13:15

Throughout 2020 and 2021 Help Musicians UK supported creatives impacted by COVID-19 to the tune of £18 million. In this podcast HMUK ambassador Nicky Spence and CEO James Ainscough explain how the 100 year old charity works, how its support has been invaluable, and how it will be vital in the years to come.…

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139: Tom Poster and Elena Urioste's Jukebox Album 8:27

3y ago8:27

8:27

The Jukebox Album is the soundtrack to the feeling that characterises this period in time we’re slowly coming out of, and perhaps a reminder that we should forget about either. A love letter from two musicians to their audience. A potent reminder of things previously taken for granted. A musical Ground Zero.…

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138: Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage 21:57

3y ago21:57

21:57

Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage has written a Concertino for clarinettist John Carnac. It will be performed at Music@Malling in Kent in late September by clarinettist John Carnac. Jon Jacob spoke to composer and performer about the work at rehearsals in Birmingham.By Thoroughly Good Podcast

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137: Horn player Ben Goldscheider 23:28

3y ago23:28

23:28

Ben Goldscheider appeared with members of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective at the recent Lammermuir Festival in East Lothian, Scotland. In this conversation he discusses horn player Dennis Brain, plus works by Oliver Knussen and Ruth Gipps.By Thoroughly Good Podcast

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136: Grace Davidson & Christian Forshaw 44:05

3y ago44:05

44:05

Grace Davidson and Christian Forshaw's new album Historical Fiction blends Baroque and Renaissance in a contemporary setting. Produced by Forshaw during the pandemic, it develops fragments of melody into a musical framework, creating a soundtrack for a royal occasion. The album is released on 17 September 2021.…

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135: Odaline de la Martinez 32:31

3y ago32:31

32:31

The London Festival of American Music runs from 13-18 September 2021 and this year features a ground-breaking opera exploring the personal stories of a trans character in 'As One'. In this podcast, a LFAM artistic director, conductor and producer Odaline De la Martinez introduces the festival and talks about how she came to discover the music of Da…

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134: Violinist Gil Shaham 36:36

3y ago36:36

36:36

Gil Shaham is one of a handful of performers who can switch between the character in the music and the personality of the performer mid-performance. Nothing is compromised as was witnessed at the InClassica International Music Festival in Dubai 2021. How does he manage to look so bright and perky on stage? And does it stop when he walks off the sta…

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133: Clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer 36:52

3y ago36:52

36:52

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