Ten favourite episodes from the 2022 series of the Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast.
Armirkhanian’s Spitalfields Festival premiere ‘Ratchet Attach It’, plus dropping acid.
St Johns Smith Square Holy Week Festival 2021 begins on Sunday 28 March – Palm Sunday. Vocal group Tenebrae under the direction of Nigel Short features in pre-recorded and live streams as well as Amici Voices, violinist Lana Trotovšek, Bojan Čičić, and organist Steven Devine. For more information visit the St John’s Smith Square website. Listen…
Pianist Clare Hammond releases a new disc ‘Variations’ on 5 March featuring piano variations by Hindemith, Copland, Adams and Szymanowski. It continues the pianist’s deeply felt work advocating active listening in discovery sessions specifically tailored for prisoners. COVID guidelines permitting, Hammond hopes to return to prisons in the UK sharing the repertoire on the disc…
Conductor and harpsichordist Christophe Rousset discusses the writing of composer Lully .
Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast Conversations about classical music and opera that bridge the gap between artist and audience. Apple Podcast Spotify Episodes 54: Conductor Elim Chan at the BBC Proms 2019 Give the listening audience the chance to reflect on what they’ve just heard and what it means to them, instead of resorting to…
Nicolas Hodges appears at the BBC Proms 2019 in a performance of Messiaen’s Des Canyon aux étoiles.
Matthew Barley’s recording of John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil was released on the Signum label in June 2019. It’s available via Spotify.
Well. Would you look at the influence the Thoroughly Good Podcast has now. Latest contributor – adorably excited composer Jonathan Dove – features in the Queen’s birthday honours list. He’s being made a CBE. Coo. It was a pleasure to meet the man. All very last minute and a complete surprise, but an invitation I…
Composer Dani Howard’s first album release celebrates her technicolour orchestration in a range of orchestral works including the whimsical Trombone Concerto that lit up Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall mid-pandemic.