This month, Tony Barnfield is joined by guest presenter Ralph Woodward, organist and conductor of Cambridge’s Fairhaven Singers, who talks to Gonville and Caius’ new Director of Music Matthew Martin and David Waterman on the Endellion String Quartet’s 41st and final season at West Road Concert Hall. Also, a new production of Rossini’s opera La … [Read more...]
Classical Cambridge: Suffolk composer Ben Parry’s Music for Christmas
From the December edition of Cambridge 105 Radio's monthly programme for classical music enthusiasts, Tony Barnfield plays tracks from the new CD Ben Parry: Music for Christmas and catches a word or two with the composer in the Durham offices of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, where he is Artistic Director, alongside several other … [Read more...]
Classical Cambridge: July Concert Calendar
Classical Cambridge: Conductor & Composer Owain Park
Among Tony Barnfield's guests on the June edition, Trinity College alumnus Owain Park talks about his life as composer and conductor of Gesualdo Six and Cambridge Chorale. … [Read more...]
Classical Cambridge: Concert Calendar
On Cambridge 105 Radio's Classical Cambridge programme for music enthusiasts, presenter Tony Barnfield is joined on each edition by Linda Ness and Charlie Long for the Cambridge Concert Calendar, featuring a listing of concerts, this month including many May Week events and the Cambridge Summer Music Festival. … [Read more...]
Classical Cambridge: Radio 3’s Donald Macleod
The BBC's Composer of the Week presenter tells Tony Barnfield how his radio work has evolved and when a composer's widow invited him to King's College Chapel, Cambridge, where he is now regularly involved with Easter at King's. Donald also talks about the "visionary" Stapleford Granary. … [Read more...]
Classical Cambridge: End of an era at Ely Cathedral
Ely Cathedral has said farewell to Paul Trepte, who has been Director of Music there for some thirty years, as Tony Barnfield discovers when he joined Paul in the organ loft. … [Read more...]