241: Nigel Short on 25 years of Tenebrae
Tenebrae began with no plan, no name and a dinner Nigel Short tried to get out of. Twenty-five years on, the choir marks its anniversary wit...
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240: Fran Wilson's 'Facing the Music'
Writer Fran Wilson's debut publication 'Facing the Music' captures a lifelong love of experiencing music both from a performer and an audien...
239: Eleanor Alberga & Thomas Bowes
Does the world need another recording of the Elgar Violin Concerto? Yes, I think it does. This episode makes the case: a conversation with v...
238: Jessica Walker
In this episode, listen to singer Jessica Walker introduce the story of Barbara — the singer, composer and lyricist whose output equals Jacq...
237: Three Choirs 2026 in Gloucester with composer Grace Evangeline-Mason
A scrapbook in sound: voices, reflections and field recordings from Three Choirs Festival 2026 in Gloucester — a postcard from two life-enha...
236: Guy Johnston on Britten’s Cello Symphony
Days before his BBC Proms appearance marking 50 years since the death of Benjamin Britten, cellist Guy Johnston talks candidly about his car...
235: Pianist Beatrice Nicholas
Beatrice Nicholas is a British concert pianist and composer. She performs the traditional classical canon, and she composes and arranges, fu...
234: Laura Bowler and the Cheltenham Music Festival's Composer Academy
Composer Laura Bowler on leading the Cheltenham Music Festival's Composer Academy, recorded on-site during the week of workshops in Gloucest...
233: Belly of the Beast at Aldeburgh, Spitalfields and Edinburgh
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre isn’t a name many will recognise — despite an opera that reached the Paris stage in 1694, two books of biblic...
228 Repeat: Aldeburgh & Snape, 50 Years After Britten's Death
This episode is being republished during this year's Aldeburgh Festiva. This episode was first published 1 June. Fifty years after Britten's...
232: Adrian Brendel on Tree of Strings
Cellist Adrian Brendel on Tree of Strings, his new Dorset festival — the Harrison Birtwistle story behind its name, genre-mixing, and watchi...
231: Bergen International Festival's Lars Petter Hagen
Bergen International Festival Artistic Director and Chief Executive Lars Petter Hagen talks programming, audiences, leadership and listening...
230: Franco Fagioli
Time with the most playful of interviewees, Franco Fagioli, recorded in Versailles in March 2026. Fagioli appears with Orchestra de l'Opera...
229: Christophe Rousset on Lully, Mozart, and playing with rules
Christophe Rousset is a harpsichordist, conductor, and founder of Les Talens Lyriques. In this conversation, recorded in Paris, he talks abo...
228: Aldeburgh & Snape 50 years after Britten's Death
Fifty years after Britten's death, Aldeburgh and Snape still carry his fingerprints — and still provoke the same question: what is this plac...
227: Claire Booth
Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2026 curator Claire Booth was asked a blunt question when she was invited her to put together this year's p...
226: Huw Watkins
Composer and pianist Huw Watkins explores his work, his musical language, his collaborations with musicians including Tamsin Waley-Cohen wit...
225: Gen Z, Gen A, and Forgotten Older People
When branding gets louder than the art.
224: Lizzie Ball
A conversation with violinist and singer Lizzie Ball that begins with “big announcement week” energy and opens into a thoughtful exploration...
223: Mezzo Soprano Katie Bray
What’s the point of pursuing something you can never reach? Hope, apparently. Mezzo-soprano Katie Bray makes a compelling case. Her new albu...