Podcasts
Welcome to SinfoniaCast. Britten Sinfonia’s podcast series brings you opportunities to look behind the scenes at highlights from our recent and forthcoming productions. If there are any artists you’d like to see featured in future, get in touch.
Our pre-concert talks are a perfect accompaniment to the concert experience - an opportunity to get to know composers and soloists a little better, as well as to find out more about the music that they will be performing. However, we know that not everyone can make it to these, and we’ve therefore started to record all of our talks at Norwich Theatre Royal. Perfect listening if you’ve been to one of our concerts and want to find out more!
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Previous SinfoniaCasts
Barbican Podcast: Britten Sinfonia Associate Ensemble
Ahead of Britten Sinfonia's first season as Associate Ensemble at the Barbican, Marcus O’Dair and Ben Eshmade speak to artists and key members from the orchestra about their exciting year ahead.
Sinfonia Cast 20
A podcast about the launch of Britten Sinfonia Voices, the orchestras new choir, in December 2011
Sinfonia Cast 19
A podcast about the Britten Sinfonia 2011-12 At Lunch series featuring new commissions by Luke Bedford, Charlie Piper and Elspeth Brooke
Sinfonia Cast 18
Britten Sinfonia’s Chief Executive David Butcher talks to Fiona Talkington about the upcoming 2011-12 season. The season highlights include the launch of Britten Sinfonia Voices and performances with violinist Henning Kraggerud and tenor Mark Padmore.
James MacMillan pre-concert talk
Bob Shingleton talks to James MacMillan, composer, and Nicholas Daniel, oboe soloist, about MacMillan’s new Oboe Concerto during its world premiere tour in October 2010.
Sinfonia Cast 17
To mark the launch of Britten Sinfonia’s new Tenner for a Tenor campiagn Chief Executive, David Butcher, and Development Director, Will Harriss talk about how commissioning new music is it at the heart of Britten Sinfonia’s programming and how everyone can become part of it!
Sinfonia Cast 16
Angela Hewitt speaks to Fiona Talkington about her concert series Angela Hewitt Directs with Britten Sinfonia in April. She tells us about how her playing of Bach and Mozart is infused with song and dance and discusses directing from the piano.
Sinfonia Cast 15
Fiona Talkington speaks to Britten Sinfonia musicians Jacqueline Shave, Tom Gould, Miranda Dale, Caroline Dearnley and Chief Executive David Butcher about the award winning At Lunch series.
Sinfonia Cast 14
BBC Radio 3’s Fiona Talkington discusses Britten Sinfonia’s 2010-11 season with Chief Executive David Butcher.
Sinfonia Cast 13
Joanna MacGregor talks about how she finds working with an orchestra with no permanent artistic director, why she is intrigued by the lives of composers whose work she plays, and how she sees the future of music.
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Eight Seasons pre-concert talk
Bob Shingleton interviews Tom Gould about violins, seasons and what it takes to get a Canadian audience to their feet.
Dialogues pre-concert talk
Bob Shingleton interviews Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich, who discuss why the listener shouldn’t feel left out when it comes to Elliott Carter’s music.
Passion and Ressurection pre-concert talk
Introduced by Bob Shingleton, this fascinating interview with composer Eriks Esenvalds explores culture, education and religion in Latvia, both under the Soviets and since independence.
Sinfonia Cast 12
Singers Allan Clayton, Andrew Foster-Williams and Julia Doyle discuss what Handel’s Messiah means to them during rehearsals for the recording of our recent CD release with Hyperion.
Britten in America pre-concert talk
Kate Kennedy talks to Nico Muhly, Mark Padmore and Pekka Kuusisto about word-setting, being a young musician in the internet age, and their earliest musical experiences.
Sinfonia Cast 11
James Macmillan shares his insights into the fascinating story behind his opera, Parthenogenesis. Featuring clips from Britten Sinfonia’s premiere performance (reproduced with permission of BBC Radio 3 and Boosey & Hawkes).
Sinfonia Cast 10
A special feature on the Creative Learning project Fen Soundscapes. Listen to the final performance of the project here. You can also watch a video (you will need Quick Time installed to view it) here.fenchurchwalkvideo.mov
Sinfonia Cast 09
Charlotte Bray and Colin Matthews introducing Britten Sinfonia’s 2008-09 lunchtime concert series.
Sinfonia Cast 08
Mark Padmore and Kate Kennedy discussing poetry in music. See concert details for Night Music with Mark Padmore.
Sinfonia Cast 07
An interview with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who directed concerts for us in summer 2008 and autumn 2009.
Sinfonia Cast 06
A recording of our Insight into Stravinsky event. John Hopkins and Ryan Wigglesworth discuss Stravinsky and neo-classicism.
Sinfonia Cast 05
Interviews with the young composers who took part in our 2008 Composers’ Workshop, and extracts from their works. With James MacMillan and Robin Holloway.
Sinfonia Cast 04
An interview with composer Richard Causton about his commission for the 2007-08 Britten Sinfonia at Lunch series.
Sinfonia Cast 03
Britten Sinfonia’s Chief Executive David Butcher chats with jazz legend Gil Goldstein in New York. Alternative format version for Windows Media Player here
Sinfonia Cast 02
Young Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova discusses Hartmann’s evocative Concerto Funebre and tells Fiona Talkington about her busy career.
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Sinfonia Cast 01
In our very first podcast, Fiona Talkington talks to some of our key players about the perils and pleasures of playing without a conductor, and finds out what it is that makes the ensemble so special.
Calendar
Next Production
The Importance of Being Earnest
London, London, London, London, London, London and London
14 - 22 June 2013
Britten Sinfonia perform as part of a production of Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest.
Adams and Muhly
Concertgebouw , Bruges
01 June 2013 8:00pm
A programme celebrating American minimalism and cross-genre inventiveness, with works by John Adams and Nico Muhly and percussionist Colin Currie
Adams and Muhly
Muziekcentrum Frits Philips, Eindhoven
02 June 2013 3:30pm
A programme celebrating American minimalism and cross-genre inventiveness, with works by John Adams and Nico Muhly and percussionist Colin Currie
Les Illuminations
Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape
08 June 2013 8:00pm
Britten Sinfonia perform as part of the Aldeburgh Festival with soprano, Sandrine Piau and conductor, Ryan Wigglesworth.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, London
14 June 2013 7:45pm
Britten Sinfonia perform as part of a production of Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, London
15 June 2013 7:45pm
Britten Sinfonia perform as part of a production of Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, London
17 June 2013 7:45pm
Britten Sinfonia perform as part of a production of Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, London
18 June 2013 7:45pm
Britten Sinfonia perform as part of a production of Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest.
Britten Dances
Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape
20 June 2013 8:00pm
A Britten centenary celebration through dance, featuring new choreography inspired by Britten from Kim Brandstrup, who creates a new work for The Royal Ballet, and Ashley Page and Cameron McMillan, who make dances for Royal Ballet Flanders.
Britten Dances
Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape
21 June 2013 8:00pm
A Britten centenary celebration through dance, featuring new choreography inspired by Britten from Kim Brandstrup, who creates a new work for The Royal Ballet, and Ashley Page and Cameron McMillan, who make dances for Royal Ballet Flanders.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, London
22 June 2013 6:00pm
Britten Sinfonia perform as part of a production of Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest.
Serenade - A Benjamin Britten Celebration
Wymondham Abbey, Wymondham
26 June 2013 8:00pm
A performance by Britten Sinfonia and children from Wymondham schools inspired by the music of Benjamin Britten as part of the Wymondham Music Festival.
City of London Festival 2013
Mansion House, London
27 June 2013 7:30pm
Britten Sinfonia performs repertoire from Baroque to the present at City of London Festival.





