Issue 30: The Giants and the Underdogs (October 2024)
John Carewe – Musical Structure
Ton Koopman – Bach’s Matthäus–Passion
Issue 29: Learning the Ropes (July 2024)
Thomas Jung – Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem
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Issue 28: As Big as it Gets (April 2024)
Thomas Jung – Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker
Charlotte Politi – Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker
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Issue 27: Behind the Colourful Scenes (January 2024)
Chris Hopkins – Bliss’ A Colour Symphony
Vasily Petrenko – Mental and Physical Preparation for Concerts
Issue 26: Our Collaborators (October 2023)
Jonathan Kent OBE – Directing Opera
Robyn Bollinger – The Role of the Concertmaster (Tchaikovsky)
Issue 25: Broadening the Scope (July 2023)
Sir David Bintley – The Matthew Hindson Ballets
John Andrews – Dame Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald
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Issue 24: Turn of the Century Women (April 2023)
Odaline de la Martínez – Dame Ethel Smyth (FREE ACCESS)
Tiffany Chang – Puccini’s Tosca (FREE ACCESS)
Chris Hopkins – Kashperova’s Piano Concerto in A (FREE ACCESS)
Issue 23: The Overlooked (January 2023)
Sir Roger Norrington – Schumann’s Symphonies
Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey – The Orchestral Music of Afghanistan
Simon Beck – Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel
Issue 22: Contemporary Opera (October 2022)
Scott Wilson – Adamo’s Little Women
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Issue 21: The All-American (July 2022)
David Newman – Conducting in Hollywood
Simon Beck – Bernstein’s West Side Story
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Issue 20: British Choral Music (April 2022)
Aidan Oliver – Holst’s The Hymn of Jesus
Paul McCreesh – Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius
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Issue 19: Through Bohemia to Russia (January 2022)
Courtney Lewis – Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7
JoAnn Falletta – Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade (FREE ACCESS)
Martin West – Prokofiev’s Cinderella
Issue 18 – New Chapters (October 2021)
JoAnn Falletta – Respighi’s Pines of Rome (FREE ACCESS)
Robert Franz – Concertos of Cimarosa, Leo and Wassenaer
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Issue 17 – Escaping the Canon Part II (July 2021)
David White – Kander’s Cabaret (FREE ACCESS)
Gavin Greenaway – Film Conducting: How to Train Your Dragon (Powell) and Interstellar (Zimmer)
Jack Wall – Video Games Live and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Issue 16 – Escaping the Canon (April 2021)
David Firman – Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar and Victoria Wood
Gareth Valentine – Kander’s Chicago
Rev. Bazil Meade MBE – London Community Gospel Choir
Issue 15 – Conflict and Collaboration (January 2021)
Mark Warman – Scott Walker collaboration (inc. films Vox Lux and Childhood of a Leader)
Dame Jane Glover – Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
George Jackson – Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (FREE ACCESS)
Issue 14 – Contrasts in the 1930s (October 2020)
Barbara Hannigan – Berg’s Lulu Suite
Sir Andrew Davis – Berg’s Lulu
Leo McFall – Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3
Summer 2020
Benjamin Zander – Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (FREE ACCESS)
Issue 13 – Lockdown Lucky Dip (July 2020)
Karina Canellakis – Wagner’s Die Walküre (Act I)
Scott Wilson – Teaching Conducting
Issue 12 – Strictly and Stravinsky (April 2020)
Dave Arch – Strictly Come Dancing (FREE ACCESS)
Ormsby Wilkins – Stravinsky’s Apollo
Issue 11 – Around the British Isles (January 2020)
Fabien Gabel – Debussy’s La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre
Gemma New – Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 ‘Scottish’
John Andrews – Sullivan’s Haddon Hall
Issue 10 – Italian Opera (October 2019)
Matthew Kofi Waldren – Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera
John Andrews – Wolf-Ferrari’s Il secreto di Susanna
Friedrich Haider – Wolf-Ferrari’s I gioielli della Madonna
Issue 9 – The French Connection (July 2019)
Michael Stern – Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No.3 ‘Organ’
Theirry Fischer – Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique
Scott Wilson – Audience Engagement (Debussy/Ravel)
Issue 8 – Visual and Alternative Communication (April 2019)
Andrew Gourlay – Rachmaninoff’s Isle of the Dead
Holly Mathieson – Rhetorical Gesture
Charles Hazlewood – The British Paraorchestra
Issue 7 – From Across the Pond (January 2019)
Leonard Slatkin – Copland’s Third Symphony
Brett Mitchell – Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F
Ben Palmer – John Williams’s Films with Live Orchestra
Issue 6 – Vocal Music of Germany/Austria (October 2018)
Professor John Butt – Bach’s Mass in B Minor
George Jackson – Mozart’s Così fan tutte
*Bonus Interview* Jakub Hrůša – Conducting Opera (Bizet/Britten/Mozart)
Issue 5 – Travelling East (July 2018)
Susanna Malkki – Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring
Nurhan Arman – Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings
Jonathan Lo – Xi’an Symphony Orchestra
Summer 2018
George Jackson – Mozart’s Così fan tutte (FREE ACCESS)
Issue 4 – Conducting for Dance (April 2018)
Paul Hoskins – Haydn’s The Creation
Gavin Sutherland – Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake
Paul Murphy – Britten’s The Prince of the Pagodas
Issue 3 – The Early Symphonies (January 2018)
Ben Palmer – Haydn’s Symphonies
Peter Stark – Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1
Mark Wigglesworth – Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 ‘Eroica’
Issue 2 – Conducting Opera Part II (October 2017)
Stephen Barlow – Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress
Sir Mark Elder – Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress
Leo McFall – Britten’s The Turn of the Screw
Christopher Stark – Britten’s The Turn of the Screw
Duncan Ward – Donizetti’s Don Pasquale
Issue 1 – Conducting Opera Part I (July 2017)
Sir Mark Elder – The Bel Canto repertoire
Richard Farnes – Bartok’s Bluebeards’s Castle
Pablo Gonzalez – Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Danielle de Niese (soprano) – on her working relationship with conductors