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Aurora Orchestra Podcast with Jonathan James

Jonathan James talks about Beethoven's mighty 'Eroica' symphony, and in particular the challenges the Aurora Orchestra must have faced when they memorised the work's finale, where every instrument has an important voice. This is related to the concert that would have taken place at St David's Hall,…

Celebrating Stravinsky

Russian composer Igor Stravinsky died 50 years ago this year. Yet his influence is still felt today, whether it's the pounding rhythms of The Rite of Spring or the musical borrowings of The Rake's Progress. Radio 3's Kate Molleson explains how Stravinsky changed the musical landscape, and just why…

Ep23 - Nicholas Collon

Nicholas Collon is a conductor with seemingly boundless energy and a huge enthusiasm for everything he does - and this podcast episode is no exception! We chatted about his hugely successful Aurora Orchestra, his guilty secrets of music he hasn't listened to, his next venture in Finland and how to …

SCHUBERT’S “MOST MONUMENTAL WORKS” TO BE PERFORMED BY SCHUBERT EXPERT AND HIGHLY REGARDED PIANIST SHAI WOSNER

The University at Buffalo Department of Music is pleased to present pianist Shai Wosner in the final Slee Visiting Artist Series concert of the season on Friday, April 12, 2019 at 7:30 pm in the Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall. The program features Schubert’s final three piano sonatas, which were …

Sounds Classical - December 29

with Gabrielle Scherrer 02:01 PM SCULTHORPE, P. Kakadu William Barton, Didgeridu; Queensland Orch.; Cond. Michael Christie 02:18 PM BERLIN, I. Heat Wave Jack Payne And His Band; Billy Scott-Coomber, Vocal 02:22 PM FINZI, G. Fear No More The Heat O' The Sun Amy Dickson, Soprano And Alto Saxophone;…

Pat Barker, the films of Alain Delon, Proms played by memory, Orlando Weeks

Samira Ahmed talks to Pat Barker about the final part of her Troy trilogy, The Voyage Home. Alain Delon has died at the age of 88 - President Macron called him a French monument. Film critic Ginette Vincendeau assesses his impact on French film. At the Proms two orchestras are set to play works b…

Sean Hayes, from Will & Grace, on his Tony Award-winning stage show Good Night, Oscar

Tom Sutcliffe speaks to Sean Hayes, best known for his role as Jack in Will and Grace. Now he's playing pianist Oscar Levant in Broadway hit Good Night Oscar, which has just opened at the Barbican in London. Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No 5 under massive pressure, having been denounced b…

Shostakovich 5

In Episode 2 of What's the Score?, we dive deep into the music of Shostakovich 5 with Aurora Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon and musicologist Marina Frolova-Walker. Why are different recordings of Shostakovich 5 at drastically different tempi? What are the different interpretations of the symph…

Orchestral Theatre

Welcome to What's the Score?, a brand new podcast from Aurora Orchestra. As Aurora prepares for their 2025 summer Orchestral Theatre production of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, we take a deep-dive into what goes into creating an Orchestral Theatre performance. In this episode, we hear from Aurora…

“Chromatic Dreams”

In this episode, we discuss recordings of “Nicola Vicentino, Madrigali a cinque voci libro quinto, Milano 1572 and other Harpsichord Works” (Dynamic) by Ensemble del Dipartimento di Musica Antica del Conservatorio di Vicenza / Stefano Lorenzetti, “P. Godfrey; I. Hodgson; R. Walthew; J. McCabe: Pian…