Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast

Podcast 40 features an interview with cellist Joy Lisney who appears at the Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre, on 8th June in a recital of Bach, Chopin and Brahms with her piano playing father James Lisney. More information on the [Southbank Centre website](https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/128978-joy-and-james-lisney-2019) or at [www.joylisney.com](http://www.joylisney.com). Music: Vr...

Composer Paul Ben-Haim moved from Germany during the 1930s to escape the Nazi regime to settle in the British Mandate of Palestine. There he continued his work as a composer spanning musical styles - Western European classical music and Arabic classical music. Itamar's exploration of Ben-Haim's work is documented in an album recorded with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and is supported by the...

Double bassist Leon Bosch discusses education, detail, knowledge and expertise. His South African Double Bass Concert with Rebeca Omordia is at the October Gallery, London on Thursday 2 May.

Adam Szabo from [Manchester Collective](https://manchestercollective.co.uk/) discusses alternative classical music experiences in this hour long discussion about audience development (fuelled by wine).

Jon Jacob visits PRS for Music for the Wild Plum Songbook Workshop recently held in London in collaboration with Wild Plum Arts and Cheltenham Music Festival. He speaks to composers workshopping their new works, and Wild Plum Arts Artistic Director and workshop mentor Lucy Schaufer. Composers in order of appearance in the podcast: Ella Jarman-Pinto, Kate Marlais, Rose Miranda Hall, Janet Oates, Li...

Upon this Handful of Earth received its European premiere at the Church Music Festival in Oslo on Monday 24 March 2019\. Jon Jacob speaks to composer and librettists Gisle Kverndokk and Aksel-Otto Bull about the work, the issues it highlights, and the challenges in bringing the conversation about climate change to the operatic form.

James Macmillan and Tenebrae’s Nigel Short discuss the Holy Week Festival, faith and how it supports Macmillan’s work as a composer, and how Tenebrae chorus creates its distinctive sound. Including excerpts from Macmillan’s Seven Last Words (Naxos) and Schoenberg’s Friede auf Erden (Signum). More information about the festival can be found at [sjss.org.uk](http://sjss.org.uk).

Podcast 32 spotlights a new release on Signum Classics entitled 'If'. It's the latest release by consort of viols Fretwork, and celebrates the 75th birthday of composer Michael Nyman pairing a collection of contemporary works arranged for the consort with music by Henry Purcell. The album is out on 22nd March 2019\. Pre-order here >>  [http://hyperurl.co/NymanPurcell](http://hyperurl.co/NymanPurce...

Listen to exclusive demo material from British cellist Sophie Webber's Kickstarter-funded album 'Bach Cello Suites Unleashed' fusing solo cello with vocal accompaniment. Podcast recorded on Monday 11 March 2019\. To support Sophie's project visit Kickstarter and search 'Bach Cello Suites Unleashed' or visit [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sophiewebber/b2c-bach-cello-suites-to-choir](https://...

All you really need to know about Podcast Number 30 is that it was recording on Wednesday 20 February 2019 at the Bussey Building - a former Victorian cricket bat factory saved from demolition ten years ago. It's home to a new opera - Robin Hood - premiered at the end of February, written by former Royal College of Music graduate Dani Howard, and performed by a small cast accompanied by the Aurora...

An extended interview with pianist Peter Donohoe features in episode number twenty nine of the Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast.  Peter and I sat down ostensibly to discuss his new release on the SOMM label - a collection of Mozart Piano Sonatas plus the Fantasia in D minor.  As with anything unplanned and unscripted our conversation took in a great many other subjects too, including interp...

A new opera - The Monstrous Child - by composer Gavin Higgins and author Francesca Simom about the teenage daughter of a Norse God who's search for her place in a mythical world opens at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Theatre on Thursday 21 Febraury. Jessica Cottis conducts the Aurora Orchestra. Jessica and I met in the Linbury Theatre during a break in rehearsals on Thursday 14 February. In addi...

Ian Page, conductor of the Mozartists and Classical Opera, whose twenty seven year plan to perform the music written by Mozart throughout his life, 250 years on is already underway. In this podcast Ian discusses the value of honest feedback from non-musicians, Sibelius, Wagner, Britten, and lipstick. 1769: A Year In Music is at Queen Elizabeth Hall on Tuesday 29 January, 7.30pm. More details on th...

Steve Long, Yehuda Shapiro and Jon Jacob discuss classical music streaming, independent record labels and the opportunity for data-driven marketing of core classical music.

A recent announcement from the BPI celebrated an increase in streaming of classical music. But the reporting on the story has highlighted the misrepresentation of the genre, something that inevitably presents an opportunity for a spot of pissing and moaning.

Violinist Jennifer Pike talks about her new album release dedicated to Polish violin music. The album is available on the Chandos label from Friday 4 January 2019\. For more information and a gallery of pictures, visit the [Thoroughly Good Blog](https://www.thoroughlygood.me/2019/01/02/thoroughly-good-podcast-24-violinist-jennifer-pike/).

Academic and conductor Martin Wåhlberg from Trondheim discusses French literature of the Enlightenment, opera-comique, and the work of composer Andre Gretry during a run of performances of Raoul Barbe Bleue. Recorded in Trondheim on Thursday 15 November 2018.

This podcast features Dr. Sophie Fuller who is the Programme Leader at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in Greenwich, South East London, author of The Pandora Guide to Women Composers in Britain and the United States, and along with the Head of Orchestral Studies at Trinity Laban Jonathan Tilbrook is behind the year-long celebration of women composers [Venus Blazing](https://www.trin...

Ahead of the start of the Australian Chamber Orchestra's Barbican residency on 22nd October 2018, I talk to artistic director Richard Tognetti about Sydney Opera House, Mozart 40, Beethoven String Quartets and Bach. He explains why there's absolutely nothing wrong with arrangements for string ensembles.  [Concert listings](https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2018/series/aco-international-associat...

Tips on how start up a string quartet, how to do competitions, and the mindset for approaching any work (terrifying advice). And ahead of their latest release on [Signum](https://signumrecords.com/product/resilience/SIGCD551/), the impetus for selecting the works that appear on their latest album. Recorded at St George's Hotel on Saturday 14 July 2018.

Recorded during the first Karol Szymanowski Music Competition staged at the NOSPR Concert Hall in Katowice, Poland. Jon Jacob speaks to competitors, and discovers the hall's distinctive acoustic and the appeal of Polish composer Szymanowski's music.

Sounds from the 2018 Leeds International Piano Competition, including an exclusive tour of The Cobbe Collection of antique pianos, masterclasses with Lars Vogt and Imogen Cooper, and reflections on the final performances from Aljoras Jurinic, Anna Geniushene, Mario Haring, XinyuanWang, and winner Eric Lu.

This podcast features composer Owen Roberts who is part of the creative team behind concluding work in the 14-18 NOW season - the UK's cultural commemoration of the WW1 centenary. Owen has composed the music that accompanies an immersive theatrical experience in Swansea 'Now the Hero'. The production opens the Swansea International Festival on 29th September. Owen Roberts has joined forces with We...

Musicologist Hannah Chan-Hartley discusses academia, the shift from scholarly study to content marketing, and her visual Listening Guides developed for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. For more information on the Visual Guides and to purchase individual copies, visit [[https://www.symphonygraphique.com/shop](https://www.symphonygraphique.com/shop)](Musicologist Hannah Chan-Hartley discusses academi...

The fifteenth Thoroughly Good Podcast was recorded in August 2018 at the British Youth Opera rehearsals in London South Bank University. British Youth Opera - an opera training company for graduates and young professionals was founded in 1987\. It has annual programme of productions, masterclasses and workshops for new opera talent. Amongst its alumni features Laura Attridge who appeared on the Th...