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NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Nick Atkisnon
National Arts Centre Orchestra
Join host Nick Atkinson (principal tuba, NAC Orchestra) as he explores the world of classical music and its great composers. In this series of audio programmes you can look forward to hearing insightful commentary about upcoming NAC Orchestra programmes as well as musical excerpts and interviews with NACO musicians and guest artists.
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Beethoven Symphony no. 9 is the subject, and Pinchas Zukerman and Measha Brueggergosman are Christopher's guests on this live edition of the NACOcast.
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To mark the beginning of the NAC Orchestra's Beethoven Festival, Christopher offers up a guided tour of the complete 2nd Symphony. Featured in this week's podcast is the NAC Orchestra's CBC Records recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 under the the baton of Music Director Pinchas Zukerman.
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Canadian mezzo-soprano Susan Platts is Christopher's guest on this edition of the NACOcast. The two discuss vocal sound production and repertoire. Musical excerpts include Verdi's Requiem and Brahm's "Gestillte Sehnsucht".
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This week we continue our look at training for young orchestral players -- In Washington DC, Christopher talks with 3 participants in the National Orchestral Institute programme and we hear several excerpts of Richard Strauss' Eine Alpensinfonie played by the NOI under the baton of James Ross on June 16 of this year.
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Back from our summer hiatus, Christopher talks with three young and dynamic music students -- the first participants in the NAC's new Institute for Orchestral Studies -- about the opportunity to play in the NAC Orchestra, their studies, their instruments ( ... and even tuning in fifths).
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Composer Gary Kulesha joins Christopher for the second part of a two part discussion recorded following the NAC Orchestra's world premiere of Kulesha's 3rd Symphony. Among other topics, Christopher and Gary discuss teaching composition and making a living as a composer.
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Composer Gary Kulesha is Christopher's guest in this first part of two special NACOcast Live sessions recorded following the NAC Orchestra's world premiere of Kulesha's 3rd Symphony.
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In this very special edition of the NACOcast, Christopher discusses the beauty and mystery of Stradivari instruments with one of the world's foremost violin players, Canadian James Ehnes. Music samples include Ehnes's recent recordings of the Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Violin and Walton's Violin Concerto.
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The distinguished British composer and conductor Oliver Knussen is Christopher's guest on this week's edition of the NACOcast. NAC Orchestra audiences know Oliver Knussen from his appearances with the NAC Orchestra in 2001 when he conducted his own Second Symphony, and from 2004 when he conducted the Canadian premiere of his Violin Concerto with its dedicatee Pinchas Zukerman as soloist.
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Douglas Burden, bass trombonist with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, is Christopher's guest on this edition of the NACOcast. The two discuss everything 'trombone'; from the instrument's origins, repertoire and its role in today's orchestra. This edition of the NACOcast includes a sampling of the NAC Orchestra performing Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.
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