Podcasts

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.

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A podcast about the launch of Britten Sinfonia Voices, the orchestras new choir, in December 2011

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A podcast about the Britten Sinfonia 2011-12 At Lunch series featuring new commissions by Luke Bedford, Charlie Piper and Elspeth Brooke

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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BBC Radio 3’s Fiona Talkington discusses Britten Sinfonia’s 2010-11 season with Chief Executive David Butcher.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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

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Charlotte Bray and Colin Matthews introducing Britten Sinfonia’s 2008-09 lunchtime concert series.

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Mark Padmore and Kate Kennedy discussing poetry in music. See concert details for Night Music with Mark Padmore.

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An interview with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who directed concerts for us in summer 2008 and autumn 2009.

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A recording of our Insight into Stravinsky event. John Hopkins and Ryan Wigglesworth discuss Stravinsky and neo-classicism.

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Interviews with the young composers who took part in our 2008 Composers’ Workshop, and extracts from their works. With James MacMillan and Robin Holloway.

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An interview with composer Richard Causton about his commission for the 2007-08 Britten Sinfonia at Lunch series.

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Britten Sinfonia’s Chief Executive David Butcher chats with jazz legend Gil Goldstein in New York. Alternative format version for Windows Media Player here

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Young Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova discusses Hartmann’s evocative Concerto Funebre and tells Fiona Talkington about her busy career.

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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.