Latest Nac orchestra Podcast Episodes
Carl Nielsen’s De fire Temperamenter
Explore the Symphony - March 07, 2020 00:26 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsJean-Jacques Van Vlasselaer and Marjolaine Fournier study The Four Temperaments, the second symphony by Carl Nielsen. The hosts find this Danish composer a little enigmatic and difficult to reach. They explore the world around him at the time of this composition, and talk about his music in that ...
Celebrating the NAC Orchestra’s 50th anniversary season
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - March 03, 2020 17:42 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn this episode of the NACOcast NAC Orchestra violinist Carissa Klopoushak interviews two founding violinists, Karoly Sziladi and Elaine Klimasko. They are joined by long time orchestra champion Evelyn Greenberg who was also the original harpsichordist and pianist of the orchestra. Together they...
Rachel Mercer: NAC Orchestra Principal Cellist
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - February 06, 2020 19:09 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsAn advocate for Canadian music, Principal Cellist Rachel Mercer speaks with Sean Rice about her activities in and beyond the National Arts Centre Orchestra, including recording, commissioning and playing world premieres. Recorded prior to Rachel's Casual Friday debut with NACO and Alexander Shell...
Mozart and Religion
Explore the Symphony - January 22, 2020 15:59 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsMarjolaine Fournier and Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer discuss the role of religion in Mozart’s life and music. This in depth conversation focuses on Mozart’s Mass in C Minor and its beautiful celebration of universality that lead the way towards 18th-century romanticism.
Peter Oundjian on his career in music
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - January 10, 2020 23:30 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn this archival episode of the NACOcast host Sean Rice, NAC Orchestra’s 2nd clarinetist, speaks with conductor Peter Oundjian weeks before his retirement as Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 2018. They discuss Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony and Peter shares memories from his stude...
Carrefour Composer Remy Siu
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - December 05, 2019 21:21 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn this episode of the NACOcast host Sean Rice (Second clarinet, NAC Orchestra) speaks with Remy Siu Carrefour Composer (2017-2019) about his early interest in film as well as his multi-disciplinary studies at Simon Fraser Univeristy that sparked his love for artist collaboration. In 2015 in col...
Carrefour Composer Ian Cusson
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - December 03, 2019 16:32 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsSean Rice, NAC Orchestra 2nd clarinet, talks with Toronto-based Carrefour* Composer Ian Cusson. They talk about R. Murray Schaffer, Bulgarian women’s choirs, and unrelated studies at the University of Toronto before delving into his chosen career. During Ian’s two year Carrefour residency with th...
Paul Wells interviews Howard Shore
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - November 15, 2019 14:58 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsJournalist and author Paul Wells has a fascinating conversation with composer Howard Shore about his passion for music making and acclaimed career as a composer for film, television and opera. Mr. Shore was at the National Arts Centre for the world premiere of his work The Forest: Concerto for Gu...
Edvard Grieg
Explore the Symphony - November 06, 2019 21:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsMarjolaine Fournier and Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer describe the music of Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt, his A minor Piano Concerto, and his C minor Symphony. His music, his melodies and his small works for piano are simply perfect. Can you believe that his symphony, composed in 1864 when Grieg was on...
Béla Bartók and Witold Lutosławski
Explore the Symphony - September 26, 2019 20:16 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsMarjolaine Fournier and Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer talk about two Concertos for orchestra: one by Béla Bartók and the other by Witold Lutosławski. They take a moment to explain the format of a concerto for orchestra (what do you mean, a concerto without a soloist?), and the dialog that develops ...
Verdi’s Requiem
Explore the Symphony - September 03, 2019 19:02 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsJean-Jacques van Vlasselaer and Marjolaine Fournier discuss Verdi’s Requiem, first performed in Milan in 1874. The text for this was written in about 1250, when a requiem was meant to be music to sustain the mass of the death. Our hosts uncover some history about the evolution of requiem works an...
Timo Andres
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - August 02, 2019 18:01 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn this archival episode from 2016, NACOcast host Sean Rice connects with composer and pianist Timo Andres whose works were performed by members of the NAC Orchestra as part the WolfGANG Sessions. During their conversation Andres discusses the inspiration and structure of his compositions Early...
Elim Chan
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - July 25, 2019 18:19 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsHost Sean Rice speaks with conductor Elim Chan who made her NAC main series debut in the 18-19 season. A past fellow in the NAC Orchestra’s Conductor’s Program, the Hong Kong-born musician has made her mark on the classical music circuit with her thoughtful and dynamic performances, imbued with ...
Blake Pouliot
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - July 05, 2019 16:25 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsSean Rice, NAC Orchestra’s 2nd clarinetist, chats with Canadian violinist Blake Pouliot. At age fourteen Blake attended the NAC’s Young Artist Program and credits that experience for inspiring him to pursue a career in music. Sean and Blake discuss the pressures of music competitions, his relat...
NAC Orchestra 50th Anniversary European Tour
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - May 10, 2019 17:02 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn this episode of the NACOcast Sean Rice speaks with NAC Music Director Alexander Shelley. On the occasion of its 50th Anniversary, the National Arts Centre Orchestra will embark on a European tour in May 2019. CROSSINGS: the NAC Orchestra 50th Anniversary European Tour will feature concerts a...
Claude Vivier
Explore the Symphony - April 02, 2019 14:28 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsMarjolaine Fournier and Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer discuss the masterful Claude Vivier, composer from Québec. His music, which can be characterized as “beautiful, immense, tragic, inspiring,” is celebrated and heard regularly in France, Germany, Holland and Austria. Lonely Child will be featured...
Vivian Fung
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - February 05, 2019 19:01 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsSean Rice, NAC Orchestra’s 2nd clarinetist, chats with JUNO Award-winning composer Vivian Fung on the occasion of NACO’s performance of her composition, Earworms. Discover when Sean and Vivian first met, what Vivian has been up to in her career and family life, and her inspiration for Earworms, w...
Brahms’ and Schumann’s first symphonies
Explore the Symphony - January 30, 2019 19:33 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsMarjolaine Fournier and Jean Jacques van Vlasselaer compare Brahms’ and Schumann’s first symphonies. They explore the relationships between the two composers and Clara Wieck. Schumann was alive in an extraordinary and explosive decade, Clara was nine years younger and a remarkable pianist, and Br...
Yosuke Kawasaki and Jessica Linnebach
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - January 07, 2019 21:32 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe NAC Orchestra’s Concertmaster Yosuke Kawasaki and Associate Concertmaster Jessica Linnebach speak with second clarinetist Sean Rice about their lives together, and their collaboration in the NACO’s February 2019 performance of Jocelyn Morlock’s Cobalt which just happens to be taking place on...
Charles Hamann speaks with the students of the 2018 Young Artists Program
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - December 05, 2018 16:41 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsDecember marks the start of the application process for the NAC’s annual Young Artist Program (Y.A.P). To highlight this wonderful training program, Charles ‘Chip’ Hamann, Principal Oboe, NAC Orchestra and YAP faculty member guest hosts this episode of the NACOcast. Chip speaks with members of th...
Shostakovich’s Violin Concert No1 and Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No3
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - November 16, 2018 20:07 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsKelly Rice, Director of Development and Lars Lih, Musicologist from McGill’s Schulich School of Music visited the NAC in January 2018 to hear John Storgårds conduct the NAC Orchestra and violinist Guy Braunstein perform two iconic works: Shostakovich’s 1st Violin Concerto and Rachmaninoff’s 3rd S...
Jessica Holmes
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - October 31, 2018 20:51 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsSean Rice, second clarinetist of the NAC Orchestra, and Jessica Holmes, Postdoctoral Scholar of Musicology, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) met in September 2018, in the middle of the 2018 Festival Focus which saw the NAC Orchestra perform all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies. Jessic...
Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem
Explore the Symphony - October 19, 2018 18:02 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsMarjolaine Fournier and Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer discuss Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. How much do you know about Benjamin Britten? There is fury in this composition. Where does it come from? Pacifism started in the 20th century, and Britten is a member of this movement. War is morally unac...
Doo Wop Project and Jack Everly
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - October 15, 2018 14:58 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsSean Rice talks with NACO Principal Pops conductor Jack Everly about his perspectives on music and upcoming NAC Orchestra Pops concerts. Find out some interesting details about Maestro Everly’s career path (“one thing leads to the next”) and discover some of the wonderful artists with whom he’s h...
Beethoven's Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Symphonies
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - October 02, 2018 18:42 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 20 ratingsSean Rice, NAC Orchestra’s 2nd clarinetist, and NAC Music Director Alexander Shelley complete their three-episode series on Beethoven’s nine symphonies for the 2018 Beethoven Focus Festival. The seventh symphony’s funeral march starts off the conversation. The 1813 premiere of the work featured a...
Schubert's Ninth Symphony
Explore the Symphony - September 27, 2018 20:49 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsJohn Storgårds will conduct the NAC Orchestra on October 10 and 11, 2018, in their performance of Schubert’s ninth and final symphony. Marjolaine Fournier, NACO double bassist, and Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer, musicologist, explore this work and uncover that Schubert never heard it performed in ...
Beethoven's Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Symphonies
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - September 19, 2018 20:42 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsSean Rice and Alexander Shelley continue their three-episode series about the Beethoven Symphonies on the occasion of the NAC Orchestra’s Festival Focus 2018. Symphonies 4, 5 and 6 were running in Beethoven’s head concurrently. He was a master of making a huge work out of just a scrap of a music...
You don’t have to be a music-lover to love Beethoven
Explore the Symphony - September 13, 2018 19:51 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsMarjolaine Fournier and Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer prepare us for the Festival Focus 2018 featuring all nine Beethoven symphonies. Did he really invent the boogie-woogie? Beethoven offered so much variety within his symphonies, and as a genius, is a guiding light. Concert halls continue to be ...
Beethoven's First Three Symphonies
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - September 11, 2018 15:19 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsSean Rice, 2nd clarinetist of the NAC Orchestra, and Alexander Shelley, NAC Music Director, discuss Ludwig van Beethoven’s first three symphonies, putting them in context with Mozart’s and Haydn’s large volume of works. Why are Beethoven’s symphonies so significant and important? The 2018 Festiva...
Summer Special Episode 9 - The 2009 NAC Award Winners: Up Close and Personal
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - August 31, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 20 ratingsMeet the second group of three Canadian composers given the prestigious NAC Awards: Peter Paul Kaprowski, Anna Sokolovic and John Estacio. Two are immigrants to Canada from Eastern Europe and the third a first generation Portuguese Canadian. They have just begun a 3-year residency with the Nation...