Episodes
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Richard Barnard
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Jon James speaks to composer, Richard Barnard, inaugural winner of the Finzi International Choral Composing Competition.
Monday May 24, 2021
Robert Plane and Finzi's Clarinet Concerto
Monday May 24, 2021
Monday May 24, 2021
Robert Plane gives a unique performer's perspective into the clarinet concerto, including how he inherited it from legendary clarinettist Dame Thea King, the secrets behind its rhapsodic power and its enduring success beyond these shores.
Monday May 17, 2021
Fiona Mackenzie
Monday May 17, 2021
Monday May 17, 2021
Fiona Mackenzie talks of her 'holy grail' to extend the legacy of folklorists Margaret Fay Shaw and her husband John Campbell, who collected thousands of folksongs and preserved a precious corner of Celtic culture.
Saturday Apr 24, 2021
Robert Gower
Saturday Apr 24, 2021
Saturday Apr 24, 2021
Robert Gower, who joined as a trustee in 1981 and has chaired the Trust for the last twenty-five years, gives fascinating insights into the early days of the organisation, including Joy Finzi's enthusiasms, British Music festivals and the expansion of activities since then. Six 'Desert Island' discs illustrate his lifelong commitment to British music, including some Finzi classics that still connect with him 'like an arrow straight to the heart.'
Saturday Apr 10, 2021
Madeleine Holmes
Saturday Apr 10, 2021
Saturday Apr 10, 2021
Soprano Madeleine Holmes reveals why she's 'potty about Italy', her search for twentieth century song there, the nature of artistic pilgrimage and what disc she'd take with her on a desert island.
Monday Mar 15, 2021
Julian Perkins
Monday Mar 15, 2021
Monday Mar 15, 2021
Julian recounts his revealing pilgrimage to some of Europe's finest historical organs, including an encounter with the 'erratic wind' of an instrument in Göteborg.
Friday Feb 12, 2021
Paul Spicer and Finzi's 'Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice'
Friday Feb 12, 2021
Friday Feb 12, 2021
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Sarah Gabriel
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Sarah spills the beans on her scholarship interview and picks up a thread that has run throughout her diverse career: story-telling.
Featuring 'Wan', composed by Sarah Angliss from the album Air Loom.
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Darragh Morgan
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Anneke Scott
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Anneke revives and reimagines the virtuoso caprices of 19th century hornist, Jacques-François Gallay