Latest Seattleclassical Podcast Episodes
American Rage: Rethinking Copland with Pianist Conrad Tao, Mar. 5, 2020
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - March 06, 2020 01:57 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsConrad Tao is the pianist, composer and new music champion who appears in two concerts presented by the Seattle Symphony this week. He spoke with KING FM Creative Director, Dacia Clay. Conrad talks about his recital in Octave 9 on March 6 and his appearance at the SSO Celebrate Asia concert thi...
Thomas Dausgaard on the 2020-2021 Seattle Symphony Season, Feb. 28, 2020
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - February 29, 2020 01:20 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOne of the themes of Seattle Symphony music director Thomas Dausgaard’s artistic life is his deep, joyful fascination with creativity and how music connects us all. Thomas speaks with KING FM’s Dave Beck about how that philosophy is reflected in the programming presented during the SSO’s 2020-20...
Cellist Nathan Chan: Going the Extra Mile in Support of New Music, Feb. 12, 2020
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - February 13, 2020 01:40 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe Seattle Symphony’s critically acclaimed “untitled” series explores new music in the informal atmosphere of the lobby of Benaroya Hall. Concerts are Fridays at 10pm, and attract a mix of new music fans and concert hall first-timers, intrigued by the event that's more like a nightclub experien...
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Violinist Gidon Kremer On One of Music’s Forgotten Voices, Feb. 5, 2020
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - February 06, 2020 01:36 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings35 members of violinist Gidon Kremer’s family perished in the Jewish ghettos of Riga, Latvia during the Second World War. The Holocaust also took a devastating toll on the family of Polish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Weinberg’s music is rarely heard. But Gidon Kremer is making a powerful case ...
Thomas Dausgaard: Close Encounters with Nielsen, Shostakovich and Grieg, Jan. 29, 2020
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - January 30, 2020 03:15 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEach of the pieces on the Seattle Symphony program this week have very personal associations for Music Director Thomas Dausgaard. He led Grieg’s ”Peer Gynt Suite” at his professional conducting debut. He was a young cellist in a Copenhagen youth symphony when he first played the Carl Nielsen Fi...
Bitten by the Baroque Bug: Violinist Rachel Barton Pine, Jan. 22, 2020
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - January 23, 2020 01:43 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThere are not too many people that a symphony orchestra can call when it loses the person who was supposed to be the violin soloist and conductor of the concert coming up. That happened to the Seattle Symphony this week. Fortunately the orchestra had Rachel Barton Pine's phone number. Rachel is ...
Reviving a “Crazy” Cadenza: Thomas Zehetmair on the Beethoven Violin Concerto, Jan. 15, 2020
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - January 16, 2020 01:45 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAustrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair regularly pulls off the feat of both playing and conducting the Beethoven Violin Concerto. And he does that with a little help from his friends. Thomas tells KING FM's Dave Beck how he calls on musicians from inside the Seattle Symphony to help with a few cond...
Beethoven, Jazz and Model Trains: Bavouzet's Favorite Things, Jan. 8, 2020
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - January 09, 2020 01:41 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJean Efflam Bavouzet, this week’s guest pianist at the Seattle Symphony, has recorded the complete piano sonatas of Haydn, the complete piano concertos of Mozart, and all of the Prokofiev piano concertos. His passion for the piano might seem all-consuming. But Bavouzet finds time to savor everyt...
Listening to the Inner Voice of the Orchestra: SSO Violinist Elisa Barsto, Dec. 18, 2019
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - December 19, 2019 01:06 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThough she came from a family of distinguished music teachers, performing is the first love of Seattle Symphony Principal Second Violin Elisa Barston. She'll do plenty of performing in December and January when she solos with the SSO in the demanding Four Seasons Violin Concertos. She'll present...
Listening to the Inner Voice of the Orchestra: SSO Violinist Elisa Barston, Dec. 18, 2019
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - December 19, 2019 01:06 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThough she came from a family of distinguished music teachers, performing is the first love of Seattle Symphony Principal Second Violin Elisa Barston. She'll do plenty of performing in December and January when she solos with the SSO in the demanding Four Seasons Violin Concertos. She'll present...
Cellist Seth Parker Woods: New Sounds, New Formats, New Faces, Dec. 11, 2019
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - December 11, 2019 20:44 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsPerforming on an instrument made of ice, introducing a high-tech concert hall and taking musical inspiration from the worlds of dance and martial arts are all in a day's work for the cellist Seth Parker Woods. He's the first ever Seattle Symphony Artist in Residence at the new Octave 9: Raisbeck...
Ready To Go On Short Notice: SSO Associate Conductor Lee Mills, Dec. 4, 2019
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - December 05, 2019 00:56 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings“Be Prepared” is not only a motto in the world of scouting, but it’s good advice for those who work as Associate Conductors of professional symphony orchestras. Lee Mills holds that position with the Seattle Symphony. When the orchestra’s music director, Thomas Dausgaard, was unable to conduct t...
Ready To Go On Short Notice: SSO Associate Conductor Lee Mills, Dec. 4, 2019
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - December 05, 2019 00:56 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings“Be Prepared” is not only a motto in the world of scouting, but it’s good advice for those who work as Associate Conductors of professional symphony orchestras. Lee Mills holds that position with the Seattle Symphony. When the orchestra’s music director, Thomas Dausgaard, was unable to conduct t...
Thomas Dausgaard: On Discovering the Folk Roots of Stravinsky, Nov. 20, 2019
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - November 21, 2019 00:28 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsA signature programming approach of Seattle Symphony Music Director Thomas Dausgaard is to collaborate with folk musicians in exploring the roots of symphonic music by composers like Rachmaninoff and Sibelius. This week’s SSO performances of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” in Benaroya Hall are...
Efe Baltacigil: On the Creation of The Angelique Poteat Cello Concerto, Nov. 13, 2019
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - November 15, 2019 01:30 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFor about a year, Seattle Symphony Principal Cellist Efe Baltacigil has been in conversation with Seattle-based composer Angelique Poteat as the two have collaborated on this week’s world premiere of Angelique’s new cello concerto. Angelique is a much admired clarinetist and composer with deep t...
From Cho-Liang Lin to Stephane Grappelli: Andy Liang’s Musical Heroes, Nov. 6, 2019
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - November 13, 2019 01:14 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAndy Liang, a member of the Seattle Symphony’s first violin section, wasn’t so sure how committed he was to music when it was time to decide where he would go to college. Andy had played in Carnegie Hall and appeared on the NPR Program From the Top in his teen years. So he had the talent to stud...
Grammy Award-Winning Violinist August Hadelich: 25 Years of Playing Brahms, Oct. 30, 2019
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - November 02, 2019 00:14 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAugustin Hadelich returns to Benaroya Hall this week to play the Brahms Violin Concerto. In 2016, Augustin won the Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo for his performance of Henri Dutilleux’s Violin Concerto, The Tree of Dreams, with the Seattle Symphony and Music Director Emeritus Ludov...
Conductor Peter Oundjian: Moving Forward in the Face of Illness and Injury. Oct. 23, 2019
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - November 01, 2019 23:57 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis week we hear from Peter Oundjian, who stepped in on short notice to guest conduct the Seattle Symphony. Oundjian is Conductor Emeritus of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, where he was music director for 14 years. He’s conducting the SSO this week in place of Cristian Macelaru who could not b...
Masaaki Suzuki: Piecing Together Mozart’s Final Thoughts, Oct. 16, 2019
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - November 01, 2019 23:39 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDave Beck speaks with guest conductor Masaaki Suzuki. Together with his son, Masato Suzuki, Masaaki has created a performing version of Mozart’s very last composition, the famously unfinished Requiem Mass. The piece was written by Mozart on his deathbed and it was left to his students and others...
Claire Chase, Oct. 9, 2019
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - October 10, 2019 00:52 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsClaire Chase was awarded the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2012 for her work, not only fostering the creation of new music, but for building organizations, forming community alliances and supporting educational programs reaching new audiences. That work is on display in Seattle this week when she is...
Jeffrey Fair, Oct. 2, 2019
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - October 10, 2019 00:43 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWe meet the occupant of the Charles Simonyi Principal Horn Chair in the Seattle Symphony. Jeffrey Fair has been playing in the SSO since 2003 when Gerard Schwarz was music director. In 2013 he won the principal horn position during Ludovic Morlot’s tenure as music director. Jeff Fair tells KING ...
Daniel Muller Schott, Sept. 25, 2019
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - October 10, 2019 00:36 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDaniel Muller-Schott played the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the SSO in September, 2019. Born in Munich, Germany in 1976, Daniel Muller Schott came to international attention as a teenager winning the Tchaikovsky International Competition at age 15. That achievement brought him to the attention of...
Krishna Thiagarajan, Sept. 14, 2019
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - October 02, 2019 22:38 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsKrishna Thiagarajan is the President and CEO of the Seattle Symphony. He spoke with Dave Beck during intermission of the Seattle Symphony’s opening night concert for 2019-2020, broadcast live on Classical KING FM. Krishna talks about how the Seattle Symphony’s community engagement efforts serve ...
Thomas Dausgaard, Sept. 11, 2019
Seattle Symphony Spotlight - October 02, 2019 22:32 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThomas Dausgaard is the energetic, Danish-born conductor who leads his first concerts as the new Seattle Symphony Music Director this month. He is brimming with enthusiasm about the future of the SSO and about the view of Seattle from his new apartment near Benaroya Hall. He loves the stunning v...
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