Conductor Darren Bloom tells Tony Barnfield about Wednesday’s 90th birthday tribute to Cambridge Emeritus Professor of Music Alexander Goehr, while Cambridge Early Music Chairman Edward Wickham outlines next weekend’s 350th-anniversary tribute to Heinrich Schütz and Christopher Brown reflects on his composing career ahead of Friday’s première of … [Read more...]
Classical Cambridge 23/10/2022
Composer Nico Muhly and harpist Parker Ramsay tell Tony Barnfield about The Street, recorded in King’s College Chapel, while Trinity College undergraduates Benedict Randall-Shaw and Helena Paish discuss their vocal ensemble King Henry’s VIII, plus Ewan Campbell and Matthew Agarwala explain how biodiversity loss is reflected in a re-working of … [Read more...]
Classical Cambridge: Jordan Ashman
Tony Barnfield talks to multi-award-winning Milton teenage percussionist Jordan Ashman, newly named Young Musician of the Year 2022, while Henrik Persson enthuses over his unique Edward Lewis Viol of 1703, Granta Chorale conductor Janet Wheeler, on celebrating night and day, and VOCES8’s Barnaby Smith joins Christopher Tin to discuss their new … [Read more...]
Classical Cambridge: Howard Williams
Tony Barnfield hears about the art of conducting from New Cambridge Sinfonia’s Howard Williams, while Sarah Henderson and Harrison Cole discuss the music of Kenneth Leighton, plus Carlos Rodriguez Otero and Madeleine Brown on programming around Rachmaninov’s popular Second Piano Concerto, as featured in the 1945 film Brief Encounter. … [Read more...]
Tony Barnfield: Mary Beard on Joyce Reynolds
This week, saxophonist Rob Buckland on a “Journey Across the Impossible” at Stapleford Granary, Professor Dame Mary Beard on her friend and former tutor Joyce Reynolds, who died last month aged 103, and how the Cambridge Footlights fared on their World tour this Summer. … [Read more...]
Classical Cambridge: Guy Johnston
Tony Barnfield meets two Cambridge alumni, as cellist Guy Johnston talks about his Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival opening on Thursday and conductor Darrell Davison on the Sampson Orchestra of Cambridge’s West Road Concert Hall appearance on Saturday. … [Read more...]
Classical Cambridge 04/09/2022
Tony Barnfield returns with a new, weekly look at the local classical music scene, with guests including Cordelia Williams, a pianist fascinated by Nightlight, tenor Stephen Lawrence on Schubert, historian Antony Carpen on Cambridge’s unbuilt concert hall and Bedfordshire composer James B Wilson on his new works. … [Read more...]
