Category: Podcast
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Podcast: 231 – Adrian Brendel and Tree of Strings
Cellist Adrian Brendel on his new festival, the Birtwistle story behind its name, and a conversation about Alfred Brendel that wasn’t supposed to happen.
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Podcast: 230 – Bergen International Festival’s Lars Petter Hagen
Bergen International Festival Artistic Director and Chief Executive Lars Petter Hagen talks programming, audiences, leadership and listening.
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Podcast: 229 Franco Fagioli
Time with the most playful of interviewees, Franco Fagioli, recorded in Versailles in March 2026. Fagioli appears with Orchestra de l’Opera de Versailles at St Martin in the Fields on 13th June 2026.
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Podcast: Christophe Rousset on Lully, Mozart, and playing with rules
Christophe Rousset is a harpsichordist, conductor, and founder of Les Talens Lyriques. In this conversation, recorded in Paris, he talks about completing his twenty-year project to record all thirteen of Lully’s operas — a composer long dismissed as boring, and why that dismissal gets the history wrong.
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Podcast: Aldeburgh, Snape & Britten’s festival 50 years after his death
Fifty years after Britten’s death, Aldeburgh and Snape still honour the composer’s legacy. But how has the site, the Festival and the organisation adapted. What brings people back?
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Podcast – Composer & Sound Artist Ruby Colley
Ruby Colley’s new album Hello Halo — released 14 November 2025 alongside a short documentary film — distils a project that began in live performance. Premiered at King’s Place in February and revisited at the Aldeburgh Festival in June of this year, the work turns field recordings and family archive material into an exploration of…
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Sam Jackson on Radio 3, the BBC Proms, and cultural leadership
What does it mean to be a “programme maker” when strategy and credibility keep intruding? In this new Thoroughly Good Podcast, Sam Jackson talks Proms, Radio 3, and the contradictions of cultural leadership.
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The orchestra at the hospital bedside: why this podcast had to be different
Documenting the Britten Sinfonia’s collaboration with NHS Foundation Arts Residency at Addenbrooke’s Hospital for the Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast.
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10 Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcasts from 2022
Ten favourite episodes from the 2022 series of the Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast.
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Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast: Tenebrae Music Director Nigel Short
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 ÄŚiÄŤić, and organist Steven Devine. For more information visit the St John’s Smith Square website. Listen…