Latest Nac orchestra Podcast Episodes
Summer Special Episode 8 - The Post War Years: Canadian Composers Come of Age
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - August 24, 2018 14:58 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis is the story of the composers from the last two decades of the 20th century. These are men and women who are confident of their place in Canadian culture and yet looked out to the world and embraced minimalism, the influences of pop and rock music, a new rhythmic vitality, eastern music and ...
Summer Special Episode 7 - The Post War Years: Canadian Composers Come of Age
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - August 17, 2018 14:56 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 20 ratingsAs World War 2 ended, there was a great flowering in contemporary music making in Canada. For the first time, men and women declared themselves professional composers. Listen to the stories, the voices and the music of these magnificent pioneers: John Weinzweig, Harry Somers, Violet Archer, Oskar...
Summer Special Episode 6 - Beyond Ottawa: NACO and the World!
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - August 10, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe NAC Orchestra has from its very early years been known outside the boundaries of Canada. In its third year of life, it made a triumphant debut in New York City. From there touring to Asia, Europe, the rest of the US and South America have won it friends and admirers. Recordings have also be...
Summer Special Episode 5 - Beyond Ottawa: The National Mandate of NACO
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - August 03, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe National Arts Centre Orchestra has, from its conception, had a mandate beyond Ottawa, a mandate to serve all Canadians from coast to coast to coast. The key national stages for the NAC Orchestra have been broadcasting, recording and touring, to which has now been added a significant presence ...
Summer Special Episode 4 - The Golden Years with Pinchas Zukerman
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - July 27, 2018 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe return of the NAC Orchestra to stability and health coincides with the arrival of a superstar violinist/conductor, and a man with a huge vision for expansion and education. Pinchas Zukerman pushes the organization to a larger greatness and a new CEO, Peter Herrendorf, and Board Chair David L...
Summer Special Episode 3 - The Pinnock Years and a Memorable Principal Guest Conductor
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - July 20, 2018 07:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsThrough much of the 1990’s, the NAC Orchestra was led by the baroque and classical specialist from England, Trevor Pinnock. This was a time of continued financial challenges for the NAC, but Trevor Pinnock was not only a superb musician, but a man of great character and helped heal the ravages o...
Summer Special Episode 2 - The Eighties: Mannino and Chmura
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - July 13, 2018 21:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsAfter 13 years under Bernardi, the NAC Orchestra’s new leader was another Italian: Franco Mannino. Where Bernardi had been all northern Italy - cold blue light, Mannino was all southern Italy - red hot light. Listen to the smiles that come into the voices of those who remember Mannino. Then a ...
Summer Special Episode 1 - An Orchestra is born: The Bernardi Years
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - July 06, 2018 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe National Arts Centre Orchestra was born in the cultural euphoria of the 1960’s, an off shoot of a bold Centennial Year project for our nation’s capital. Not only did Ottawa get its first arts centre complex, it acquired a world class orchestra almost instantly. Meet the bold and visionary me...
Karina Canellakis
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - July 04, 2018 16:08 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsKarina Canellakis is the newly appointed Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Amsterdam, beginning in the 19/20 season. Winner of the 2016 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award, Karina is internationally acclaimed for her emotionally charged performances, technical co...
The Man with the Violin
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - May 04, 2018 20:24 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratings“Every time a child passed through the station, the child wanted to stop, and every time, the adult with them pulled them along on their way.” Sean Rice interviews author Kathy Stinson, illustrator Dušan Petričić and composer Anne Dudley who all had a hand in creating the music performed by the ...
Anton Bruckner’s eighth symphony with the TSO
Explore the Symphony - April 13, 2018 20:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsBruckner scholars seem to focus on psychoanalysis rather than closing their eyes and listening to the music. To listen to Anton Bruckner’s eighth symphony is to listen to the summit of his music. The Toronto Symphony Orchestra performs this work with conductor Peter Oundjian on May 7, 2018. Liste...
Natasha Gauthier with Alice Sara Ott and Eivind Gullberg Jensen
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - April 10, 2018 21:22 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsNatasha Gauthier of Artsfile.ca interviews pianist Alice Sara Ott and conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen who performed the Grieg Piano Concerto together with the NAC Orchestra, at the NAC, in January 2018. Join them as they talk about personal firsts, world travels, and the whirlwind life of a musi...
Kaija Saariaho, Violin Concerto Graal théâtre
Explore the Symphony - March 22, 2018 19:17 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsJean-Jacques van Vlasselaer and Marjolaine Fournier talk about Saariaho’s violin concerto which was featured as part of the 2017 Ideas of North festival produced by the NAC Orchestra. Saariaho is seen as a wonderful and intriguing contemporary composer who will stand the test of time, with master...
Institute for Orchestral Studies
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - March 06, 2018 17:02 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsSean Rice, second clarinetist of the NAC Orchestra, interviews the five apprentices who participated in the NAC's annual Institute for Orchestral Studies in the fall of 2017. They were: Alexander Volkov, violin Gabrielle Bouchard, violin Alisa Klebanov, viola Grace Sommer, cello Talia Hatch...
Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade
Explore the Symphony - February 16, 2018 20:25 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThis work opens many doors to wonderful and exciting musical study. It is a fine example of Orientalism and our perception of “the other”. Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer and Marjolaine Fournier talk about who Rimsky-Korsakov was, his 19th-century influences from Mendelssohn to Wagner, and his contri...
Joana Carneiro, NACO and the Tanztheater Wuppertal – Pina Bausch dance company
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - February 05, 2018 19:32 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsPortuguese conductor Joana Carneiro, a well-travelled artist, talks with Sean Rice about her first time with the Pina Bausch dance company and with the NAC Orchestra, all in the same week in September 2017.
Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 77
Explore the Symphony - December 23, 2017 02:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsYour hosts Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer and Marjolaine Fournier talk about Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77, which will be performed by Guy Braunstein with the NAC Orchestra in January 2018. This work in four movements is technically and emotionally challenging for the soloi...
Chip Hamann's new CD, Canadian Works for Oboe & Piano
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - December 06, 2017 21:19 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsSean Rice interviewed the NAC Orchestra’s principal oboe Chip Hamann about his new album, a two-disc album that was released in June 2017. It was the first classical recording at the Isabel Bader Centre in Kingston. What a fantastic and incredible hall to record! The double-cd set is called Cana...
Robert Chafe, lyricist for "Heirloom" co-produced with Larysa Kuzmenko
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - October 31, 2017 21:23 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsRobert Chafe is a 2010 Governor General Award recipient for his play, Afterimage. His extensive body of work also includes such plays as Place of First Light, Charismatic Death Scenes, Belly Up, Emptygirl, Oil and Water, Butler's Marsh, and Tempting Providence. Butler's Marsh and Tempting Provi...
Sibelius’ Symphonic Poems
Explore the Symphony - October 27, 2017 17:49 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsJean-Jacques van Vlasselaer and Marjolaine Fournier present part two of their 2017-2018 podcasts on Sibelius. In this episode, hear them trace the trajectory of Sibelius’ six symphonic poems, all performed by the NAC Orchestra during the 2017 Ideas of North festival. Composed between 1896 and 192...
Jean Sibelius' First Symphony
Explore the Symphony - September 29, 2017 20:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsJean Sibelius , born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius, was a Finnish composer and violinist of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely recognized as his country's greatest composer and, through his music, is often credited with having helped Finland to develop a national identity...
Joel Quarrington and his new album: Schubert "An Die Musik"
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - September 20, 2017 13:24 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsPrincipal Bassist, Joel Quarrington, joins us to talk about his brand new solo album, Schubert: An die Musik, that he recorded with Canadian pianist, David Jalbert. We discuss his love of the music that he recorded and his album release at this year's Double Bass Convention in Ithaca, NY.
Ideas of North
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - August 31, 2017 19:13 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsMaestro Alexander Shelley shares his thoughts on the National Arts Centre Orchestra's 2017-18 opening festival of music, Ideas of North - featuring an array of Scandinavian composers and performers, including many of Sibelius' symphonies and tone poems. Principal Guest Conductor, John Storgårds,...
Harry Somers - Louis Riel
Explore the Symphony - June 02, 2017 15:41 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThe story of the polarizing Métis leader and Canada’s westward expansion is told in this landmark work. Composed by Harry Somers for our nation’s centennial in 1967, this uniquely Canadian contribution to the opera world is returning on the work’s 50th anniversary, and will help mark the 150th a...
ENCOUNT3RS - Creation and Colaboration
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - May 19, 2017 19:34 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn this bilingual panel discussion on Creation and Collaboration that preceded the world premiere of ENCOUNT3RS (April 20-22, 2017), animator Catherine Clark speaks with the six Canadian artists involved in this historic NAC dance-music commission celebrating Canada 150. Following a discussion be...
Sibelius' Majestic 2nd and 6th Symphonies
Explore the Symphony - March 15, 2017 20:38 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsJean Sibelius, born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius (8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957), was a Finnish composer and violinist of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely recognized as his country's greatest composer and, through his music, is often credited with having helped F...
Soul Stirring Music
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - March 15, 2017 20:37 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsSean Rice and Alexander Shelley talk about the "Soul Stirring Music" coming up in the 2017-2018 season of the NAC Orchestra. "I am full of anticipation for the NAC Orchestra season ahead and the glorious music that awaits us. We will host some of the finest performers in the world - artists lik...
Robert and Clara: The whirlwind love affair of Robert Alexander Schumann and Clara Josephine Wieck
Explore the Symphony - March 01, 2017 19:40 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsRobert Schumann[1] (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher F...
Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra
Explore the Symphony - January 24, 2017 15:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsRichard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; his tone poems, i...
A Night of Classical Collisions #TheKiss
NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice - December 12, 2016 21:07 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn celebration of Beethoven and Schumann – two highly expressive and innovative composers, the NAC Orchestra created an eclectic evening of music, dance and art called Classical Collisions. Fine art inspired graffiti artists while classical music mixed with DJ scratching - and everybody danced....