In Tune Highlights

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In Tune Highlights episodes

January 23, 2018 'Teletubbies with brass instruments...' - A4 Brass on their USP as an ensemble
Highlights from the week, with A4 Brass, Colin Currie, James O'Donnell and Julie Fowlis.
25 min
January 16, 2018 'Familiarity breeds... bickering!' - Anna Tilbrook on 20 years working with James Gilchrist
Picks from across the week on In Tune with Sean Rafferty. His guests this week include the world renowned a cappella group The King's Singers, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Tenor James Gilchrist and pianist Anna Tilbrook reflect on 20 years working together, and Kyra Humphreys celebrates two decades with the Royal Northern Sinfonia. Plus choreographer Frank Andersen, one of the world's leading experts on Bournonville ballets.
26 min
January 08, 2018 "And there we are, our portraits singing away" - Gerald Finley on being featured on Canadian postage stamps
Highlights from the week, including Gerald Finley, Mathilde Milwidsky & Gavin Sutherland.
26 min
December 19, 2017 "He was such a symbol of national unity and integrity." - Alexandra Dariescu on the late King Michael I of Romania
Sean Rafferty walks around the new Charles II exhibition with curator Rufus Bird. Plus chats with Henning Kraggerud, The City Musick and pianist Alexandra Dariescu.
20 min
December 14, 2017 My soul is part of my instrument - Angela Gheorghiu
Picks from across the week on In Tune with Sean Rafferty: soprano Angela Gheorghiu remembers working with Solti and talks about getting back into the recording studio; actor Robert Lindsay channels his inner Ebenezer Scrooge; and flautist Juliette Bausor with pianist Tim Horton attempt to resist the urge to make puns about CPE Bach's 'Hamburger Suite' (with limited success).
24 min
December 05, 2017 "You can turn a concert hall into a forest in an instant." - Tan Dun on using organic sounds as an instrument
Picks from across the week on In Tune with Katie Derham, including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon composer Tan Dun, musicologist Robert Levin and New York's Harlem Quartet.
23 min
November 30, 2017 "He had style, he had panache... we were all in his shadow" - Sir Bryn Terfel on the late Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Picks from across the week on In Tune with Sean Rafferty, including mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato with conductor Sir Antonio Pappano, and pianist Imogen Cooper. Plus, in the week of the untimely death of Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, conductor Semyon Bychkov and Sir Bryn Terfel pay him tribute.
25 min
November 27, 2017 “I learned fado as I learned to speak Portuguese” - Carminho
Sean Rafferty chats with Russian maestro Valery Gergiev, discovering how he goes beyond the score to create the incredible sounds from the orchestras he conducts. We also hear from organist Anne Page, who has played most of the organs in Cambridge, and from fado singer Carminho, who is currently giving a Portuguese edge to the music of Brazillian bossa nova legend Tom Jobim.
26 min
November 14, 2017 "Sometimes we don't really want to expose our soul" - Yevgeny Sudbin
Highlights from the week, including Russian musicians Semyon Bychkov and Yevgeny Sudbin.
26 min
November 14, 2017 “He loves music and he loves sharing. I do too!” - Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop on the moment she decided she wanted to be a conductor, after encountering/watching Leonard Bernstein as a 9 year old at a Young Persons Concert. This week’s podcast also includes conversations with two great musical partnerships; the French pianist Louis Lortie and violinst Augustin Dumay, as well as the pianist Inon Barnatan and the cellist Alissa Weilerstein, who first began performing together during a cold Boston winter…
21 min

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Highlights from BBC Radio 3’s In Tune - featuring interviews with guests from the world of music and the arts. In Tune is presented by Sean Rafferty and Katie Derham.