Barbican Classical Music Podcast
1) Composer Focus – Episode 5: Jean Sibelius with Sakari Oramo
In this five-part mini-series we explore the life, times and work of some of classical music’s greatest composers. In the final episode, host Edward Seckerson is joined by BBC Symphony Orchestra con...Show More
2) Composer Focus – Episode 4: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with Richard Tognetti
In this five-part mini-series we explore the life, times and work of some of classical music’s greatest composers. In episode four, host Edward Seckerson is joined by violinist, composer, and Australi...Show More
3) Composer Focus – Episode 3: Gustav Mahler with Sir Antonio Pappano
In this five-part mini-series we explore the life, times and work of some of classical music’s greatest composers. In episode three, host Edward Seckerson is joined by conductor and pianist Sir Anto...Show More
4) Composer Focus – Episode 2: Benjamin Britten with Roderick Williams
In this five-part mini-series we explore the life, times and work of some of classical music’s greatest composers. In episode two, host Edward Seckerson is joined by baritone and composer Roderick W...Show More
5) Composer Focus – Episode 1: George Frideric Handel with Iestyn Davies
In a five-part mini-series we explore the life, times and work of some of classical music’s greatest composers. In episode one, host Edward Seckerson is joined by countertenor Iestyn Davies to discu...Show More
6) In conversation with Jeremy Denk
Jeremy Denk talks to Edward Seckerson about the arts of practicing, programme-building, recording, writing and performing, as we find out what makes the innovative pianist tick. For information regar...Show More
7) Edward Seckerson muses on the great Leonard Bernstein
Edward Seckerson would happily describe himself as a Bernstein fanatic, conducting one of the last major interviews with his idol before his death in October 1990. Here he shares why the American ic...Show More
8) Peter Sellars on Ligeti’s Le grand macabre
'This music is buzzing with intergalactic messages and surrealism…’ We speak to the inimitable director about the apocalyptic anti-anti-opera ahead of his production at the Barbican with the LSO and...Show More
9) Leila Josefowicz on John Adams
‘The whole piece is about me being put to the test…’ The violinist Leila Josefowicz talks about Scheherazade.2 – the piece written for her by John Adams – and her life as a musician, ahead of her pe...Show More
10) John Adams at 70
'Music is above and beyond all else... It's about feeling.' As the pioneering American composer celebrates his 70th birthday, we spoke about his life, music and varying influences. For informati...Show More