Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast

Podcast seven was recorded in the Royal Overseas League off Arlington Street in Central London. It features Royal Overseas League Arts Director Geoff Parkin, and previous Royal Overseas League Gold Medal Final winner saxophonist Huw Wiggin.  For a full list of the topics we discussed head over to the Thoroughly Good Blog.

Podcast six was recorded in the much-maligned hotel bar The Heights – and features music journalist Ariane Todes and I talking to violinist Hugo Ticciati. Hugo talks about his new album 'White Light – The Space Between', why he went without glasses for five years, the challenge of improvisation for classical music musicians, and rock balancing.  For a full list of the topics we discussed head over...

Episode 5 of the Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast features conductor Damian Irorio, currently the music director of the Milton Keynes City Orchestra, and Alexander van Ingen of the Academy of Ancient Music. The Academy of Ancient Music will be playing Bach’s St John Passion on Good Friday at 3pm at the Barbican.

Recorded at Barbican, Jon Jacob is joined by pianist and composer Andrew James Johnson, and author, coach and art lover Debs Henry-Pollard for a conversation spanning piano lessons, Wagner and the CBSO. Andy's new album Winter's Heart is out now and available via Spotify. **Show Notes** Breakfast: bacon and spinach Introductions Andy’s CBSO work experience Orchestral manager job interview Marin Al...

Lithuanian composer Gediminas Gelgotas and member of the New Ideas Chamber Orchestra Augusta Jusionytė break from recording at Real World Studios in Box near Bath, to talk about breakfasts, names and contemporary classical.  Gediminas' piece for double bass and piano Sanctifaction is available via Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/1opMe2xOkwYkAEBpSwjBnD?si=6eu0H1O-TwW6huJkO9lX5g). Find out m...

The second in this new series of Thoroughly Good Podcasts features blogger Cross-Eyed Pianist (Fran Wilson) and composer Thomas Hewitt Jones, recorded in the Crypt Cafe in St John's Smith Square late last year.  Many thanks to Richard Heason at St John's Smith Square for giving us a space in the crypt to record the podcast.

The first episode of a new series of Thoroughly Good Podcasts featuring pianists [Christina McMaster](www.twitter.com/pianochristina) and [Tom Poster](www.twitter.com/postertom), recorded at Bluthner Piano Showroom in Central London. Subscribe via iTunes, or visit the [Thoroughly Good Blog](www.thoroughlygood.me).

Pianist and conductor Howard Shelley is conducting a series of lunchtime concerts featuring Mozart's early piano concertos at St Johns Smith Square in London. In this interview Shelley talks about his career, the challenges of playing Mozart and his experiences singing in the Proms performance of Britten's War Requiem in the early 60s.

Audience behaviours in the concert hall and online can make the concert hall a hostile place. Three accounts help explain why Jon Jacob sometimes feels rather lonely in the classical music world.

Christian Thompson is Director of the Verbier Festival Academy - a residential training programme for exceptional young musicians. In this podcast, recorded in Verbier in August 2016, Christian explains his vision for the Academy and its participants, and how the Academy is developing the next generation of soloists. The music featured in this podcast is the opening movement from Brahms' first pia...

What happens when you take a rock music fan to his first classical music concert? Listen to @Ewan Spence's first experience of the BBC Proms.

Why would anyone fear Elgar's Cello Concerto? It's lovely, after all. Well, maybe because of Jacqueline du Pre. Maybe she's the one to blame.

During a recent trip to Budapest, Jon Jacob gets to see two operas from Wagner's Ring as part of the annual MUPA Wagner in Budapest Opera Festival. This podcast features material recorded during his visit including an interview with Director Hartmut Schorghofer, plus excerpts from soprano Anna Russell's synopsis of Wagner's Ring recorded in 1953.

How Malcom Arnold’s Peterloo Overture helped one person deal with the shock of the UK’s EU Referendum result.

This week sees the launch of the 2016/17 season of concerts at St John's Smith Square. To coincide with the launch, Jon Jacob speaks to SJSS Director Richard Heason, and pianist Christina McMaster and conductor Stephen Layton about their musical inspirations and work.

Composer Anna Meredith talks about mixing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with new electronic music in a new work, 'Anno', created by her and her sister Eleanor Meredith, and premiered at Spitalfields Music with the Scottish Ensemble earlier in June 2016.

Association of British Orchestras Director Mark Pemberton discusses the challenges faces British orchestras, some of the misconceptions about them, and the way he'd encourage newcomers to the concert hall. This podcast includes excerpts from Percy Grainger's Green Bushes.

Rosenblatt Recital series founder Ian Rosenblatt explains how he was introduced to classical music, why he thinks there's snobbery in the classical music scene, and why his recital series is about entertainment not narcissism.

Television is throwaway, but the demands we have of it are considerable. The people meeting those demands with towering achievements like those Nicoline was responsible for in 2014 are often overlooked by those of us staring at the TV screen. It's time for those people to step into the limelight.

This week's podcast looks back on a weekend of baking at a cookery school in Devon,revisits some of my memories of school, including lonely lunch breaks in the practice rooms. All very light and frothy, I promise you.

Exploring the uncomfortable experience of the age gap. This podcast asks how we can maintain the isolation we strive with an increasing need to connect with the younger generation.

Ruby Wax's Taming of the Mind provides the starting point for this podcast which over the course of its 25 minutes takes in the benefits of mindfulness and a fear of swimming in the deep-end and links it, miraculously, to writing.

Jon Jacob, a fully paid-up member of Generation Y discovers that one first questions to ask when working out what you want to do next, is to ask what you don't want to do next.

Reflections on a screening of 'Leningrad and the Orchestra that defied Hitler' recorded in mid-December 2015.

A chance interaction with an old acquaintance prompts an unexpected question: where did Jon Jacob lose sight of the creative headland he was excited to discover ten years ago?