Podcasts
OAE Podcast February 2012
A packed and star-studded edition of the OAE podcast! This edition:
- Sir Mark Elder talks about Berlioz’s Romeo & Juliet (performed at Royal Festival Hall, 18 Feb, Anvil in Basingstoke on 23 Feb, as a Night Shift at the Roundhouse, London on 24 Feb and Theatre des Champs Elysees Paris on 26 Feb.)
- Laurence Cummings chats about Bach (performances 4 March, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 9 March, Wiltshire Music Centre and 10 March Town Hall Birmingham)
- We talk to composer Sally Beamish and writer Melanie Reid about ‘Spinal Chords’ (Performed 10 Feb, Queen Elizabeth Hall)
- Double Bassist Cecelia Bruggemeyer picks her top tracks
- We go behind the scenes with a chat with OAE Digital Content officer Zen Grisdale
OAE Podcast November 2011
The first podcast of the new season is jam-packed full of musical interest. We talk to Rachel Podger who direct two concerts with the OAE this October, with a programme titled ’1700s London and the Fab Four’, with the fab four being Haydn, Abel, Arne and JC Bach – she tells us more about this intriguing mix of composers. Then we’re onto everything eduction, as we meet OAE Education Director Cherry Forbes backstage at the Queen Elizabeth Hall where she tell us what she and the Education team get up to. Next up are the CD picks of our Co-Principal Keybard Player Steven Devine, including a VERY unusual take on Handel’s Messiah, and we round the podcast off with a look back to September, when Robert Levin joined us to play Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.23 – he tells us more about the piece and his approach to it.
OAE Podcast May 2011
A jam-packed May OAE podcast for you. In it we talk to OAE leader Alison Bury about Handel, take a trip to Glyndebourne to talk to Principal Oboe Anthony Robson about his top CD picks, find out about what a Chief Executive of an Orchestra actually does and lastly look back on the OAE’s history with Helen Wallace.
OAE Podcast December 2010
In this podcast we talk to conductor Jonathan Cohen ahead of his New Year’s concerts with the Orchestra, chat to OAE violinist Roy Mowatt about some of his favourite recordings, find out about this history of Southbank Centre (and the Festival Hall carpet), preview our concerts with conductor David Zinman and lastly talk to Duke Dobing from the OAE office about his role with the Orchestra. Quite a packed edition!
OAE Podcast October 2010
A packed podcast looking forward to some of the many musical treats ahead. OAE staff members pick their upcoming concert highlights, we explore the ideas behind the Remix festival, plus we talk to Projects Director Ceri Jones about her role and Viola player Martin Kelly makes some CD selections.
OAE Podcast June 2010
The June edition of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s regular series of Podcasts. In it, we take a trip to Glyndebourne, talk to Melgaard OAE Young Conductor Eduardo Portal, focus on our innovative Creation education project and related family concert and also take a look at those much-talked-about new ‘gaffer tape’ pictures.