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!
Latest SinfoniaCast
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.
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Latest pre-concert talk
MacMillan conducts MacMillan (October 2010). Bob Shingleton talks to James MacMillan, composer, and Nicholas Daniel, oboe soloist, about MacMillan’s new Oboe Concerto during its world premiere tour, and the process of writing with a particular performer in mind. The concerto was written especially for Nicholas Daniel and Britten Sinfonia and was co-commissioned by Birmingham Town Hall.
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Previous SinfoniaCasts
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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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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.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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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Sinfonia Cast 08
Mark Padmore and Kate Kennedy discussing poetry in music. See concert details for Night Music with Mark Padmore.
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Sinfonia Cast 07
An interview with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who directed concerts for us in summer 2008 and autumn 2009.
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Sinfonia Cast 06
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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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
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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.
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Calendar
Next Production
Concentric Paths
Dijon, Cambridge, New York, Norwich, London and Dublin
11 - 28 February 2012
A compelling programme designed by the brilliant Thomas Ades who features at the piano and as conductor.
Composers' Workshop 2012
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
04 February 2012 10:00am
Hear the inner workings of a composition in progress at this day-long event offering an intriguing insight into the world of contemporary composition.
Concentric Paths
Opéra de Dijon, Dijon
11 February 2012 8:00pm
A compelling programme designed by the brilliant Thomas Ades who features at the piano and as conductor.
Family Music Day
West Road Concert Hall (FMD), Cambridge
18 February 2012 1:15pm
Get ready to tweet, chirp and flap your wings in time for a celebration of birds and birdsong. Join a flock of Britten Sinfonia musicians for hands-on music making and activites inspired by our feathered friends.
Concentric Paths
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
20 February 2012 7:30pm
A compelling programme designed by the brilliant Thomas Ades who features at the piano and as conductor.
Concentric Paths
Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, New York
22 February 2012 7:30pm
A compelling programme designed by the brilliant Thomas Ades who features at the piano and as conductor.
Concentric Paths
Norwich Theatre Royal, Norwich
25 February 2012 7:30pm
A compelling programme designed by the brilliant Thomas Ades who features at the piano and as conductor.
Concentric Paths
Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
27 February 2012 7:30pm
A compelling programme designed by the brilliant Thomas Ades who features at the piano and as conductor.
Concentric Paths
National Concert Hall, Dublin
28 February 2012 8:00pm
A compelling programme designed by the brilliant Thomas Ades who features at the piano and as conductor.
