NACOcast: A Classical Music Podcast

By Canada's National Arts Centre

Explore the world of classical music with members of Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra and special guests.... more

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The podcast currently has 168 episodes available.

NACOcast: A Classical Music Podcast episodes:

October 21, 2014 The Great War and Canada: An Interview with Margaret MacMillan
As a prelude to the NAC Orchestra's UK Tour -- a tour of commemoration and remembrance -- Nick speaks with renowned historian Margaret MacMillan about Canada and its role in the First World War.
Prof MacMillan, is an historian and professor at the University of Oxford, where she is Warden of St Antony's College. She is former provost of Trinity College, professor of history at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University. A leading expert on history and international relations, MacMillan is a frequent commentator in the media. [wikipedia.org]
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32min
September 15, 2014 WW I: A Personal Journey
Nick shares his impressions of the First World War through his own family memories, interspersed with some of the popular music of the time.

The Regimental March of the PPCLI is performed by the Central Band of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Musical Excerpts:
Regimental March - Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry

Roses of Picardy - Wood-Weatherly

Keep the Home Fires Burning - Novello

Keep Right on to the End of the Road - Harry Lauder

The Parable of the Old Man and the Young - Wilfred Owen
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38min
July 07, 2014 Shakespeare, Stravinsky and Alexander Shelley
In this final NACOcast episode of the season, Nick talks to NAC Orchestra Music Director Designate Alexander Shelley about the two programmes he is conducting next season. [Music excerpt: Carlo Maria Giulini - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Stravinsky - The Firebird (Suite, 1919 version), Finale - Angel SFO-36039] See you in September!
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57min
July 04, 2014 Jon Kimura Parker on Mendelssohn
Guest host Frank Dans, Interim Artistic Administrator for the NAC Orchestra, interviews Jon Kimura Parker for the "Parker Plays Mendelssohn" concerts from February 5-6, 2014. Inspired by his sunny sojourn in Italy (and a brief infatuation with a young pianist), Mendelssohn composed an equally unclouded piano concerto, brimming with free-flowing lyrical lines and opportunities for displays of virtuosity by NAC Orchestra favourite Jon Kimura Parker. Schumann presented his Fourth Symphony to his beloved wife on her 22nd birthday, saying it contained her portrait in a melody he called the “Clara” theme. Listen for it, woven like a shimmering thread throughout the work. To begin the concert, re-enter Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer’s evocative musical landscape.
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38min
June 13, 2014 Schumann’s Symphony No. 4 with Eric Friesen
Guest host Eric Friesen, writer and broadcaster, presents his pre-concert chat entitled, "Schumann’s Fourth Symphony: From Darkness to Light”.
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43min
May 28, 2014 The NAC Orchestra's Institute for Orchestral Studies
The four apprentices in the NAC Orchestra's Institute for Orchestral Studies — violinist Sunny Shi, violist Kayleigh Miller, cellist Zhou Fang and bassist Nate Martin, plus former apprentice Emily Westell — were the guests for the pre-concert talk of November 14. The young musicians spoke about their experiences in the IOS, NACO's tour of China, and they performed movements from Mozart's “Divertimento" and Vivian Fung’s “Pizzicato".
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37min
April 28, 2014 "Fate Lurks, but Tunes Triumph" with guest host Eric Friesen
In this episode, guest host Eric Friesen, writer and broadcaster, presents his pre-concert chat entitled, "Fate Lurks, but Tunes Triumph”.
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38min
April 07, 2014 Brahms Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, with guest host Paul Wells
Guest host Paul Wells, political editor of Maclean's magazine, presents a program entitled, "Brahms Between Yesterday and Tomorrow."
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32min
March 31, 2014 Drums along the Rideau
Percussion playing is not just a matter of indiscriminate crashing and banging. NAC Orchestra percussionists Jon Wade and Ken Simpson explain the finer points of playing in an orchestral percussion section. It's MUCH more complicated than you think!
Tchaikovsky - 4th Symphony

Rimsky-Korssakoff - Capriccio espagnol Op. 34

Arturo Sandoval - Conga

Leonard Bernstein - Mambo

Tchaikovsky - Marché Slav Op. 31
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54min
March 19, 2014 Operatic Athletes (Part 2)
Nick continues his discussion of some of the great "gold medal" singers of the past.
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59min

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