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NACOcast - 04.11.2009 - Measuring TimeChristopher has been thinking about metronomes. Here he discusses the history of that irritating but essential device, and talks with NACO guest conductor Alexander Shelley about Maelzel, Beethoven and the challenges of the metronome for modern conductors.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 02.06.2009 - NAC Orchestra 2009/10 Season PreviewChristopher takes you on an hour-long exploration of the NAC Orchestra's recently announced 2009-2010 season, complete with musical excerpts from the NAC Orchestra audio archives and Naxos Canada.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 31.03.2009 - Tchaikovsky's Eugene OneginBringing Onegin to Life. With insights from philosopher Isaiah Berlin and a wide ranging conversation with tenor Richard Troxell and stage manager Joseph Bascetta, this episode explores Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin. Opera Lyra Ottawa's production of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece opens April 4.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 31.03.2009 - Tchaikovsky's Eugene OneginBringing Onegin to Life. With insights from philosopher Isaiah Berlin and a wide ranging conversation with tenor Richard Troxell and stage manager Joseph Bascetta, this episode explores Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin. Opera Lyra Ottawa's production of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece opens April 4.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 11.03.2009 - Artistic Administrator, Daphne BurtIn this second in a series of podcasts which will look at the business and administration of symphony orchestras, NACOcast host Christopher Millard talks with Daphne Burt, artistic administrator of the NAC Orchestra.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 24.11.2008 - NAC Orchestra librarians, Margo and Greg HodgsonIn this first in a series of podcasts which will look at the business and administration of symphony orchestras, NACOcast host Christopher Millard talks with husband-and-wife team Margo and Greg Hodgson, principal librarian and assistant principal librarian of the NAC Orchestra, about the complexities of their profession, and their life together in music.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 24.11.2008 - James Gaffigan and Beethoven Symphony no. 1This week's episode of the NACOcast looks at Beethoven's First Symphony. American conductor James Gaffigan is Christopher's guest. Chris and James analyze the harmonies employed in the introduction of the first movement and continue with a discussion of the sonata form.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 08.07.2008 - On HearingChristopher explores hearing, and the loss thereof, as it relates to orchestral musicians and audiences in general.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 13.09.2008 - Figuring Out FigaroIn this episode, Christopher speaks with Opera Lyra Ottawa's Artistic Director Tyrone Paterson, Conductor Christoph Campestrini and mezzo-soprano Marion Newman about the new production of Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro. The conversation focuses on the personalities of each of the principal characters, their place in the social strata of their time and how Mozart's music so brilliantly captures their individual human experience.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 22.10.2008 - LIVE! The Violin and The VoiceLive from Southam Hall at Canada's National Arts Centre, Christopher talks with Pinchas Zukerman and Arianna Zukerman about the voice as instrument, and the instrument as voice.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 09.06.2008 - A Prophetic ConversationBeethoven's Pastoral Symphony is one of the great works of programmatic music in the orchestral repertoire. Christopher examines the thoughtful insights of musicologist Owen Jander in a study of the second movement, Scene by the Brook.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 14.05.2008 - Clown of the OrchestraChristopher discusses primates, brontosauri and other musical influences in a wide ranging examination of his favourite orchestral instrument.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 27.03.2008 - NAC Orchestra 2008/09 Season PreviewChristopher takes you an hour-long exploration of the NAC Orchestra's recently announced 2008-2009 season, complete with musical excerpts from the NAC Orchestra audio archives and Naxos Canada.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 18.01.2008 - Strauss Oboe Concerto with Charles HamannIn this first NACOcast of 2008, Christopher focuses on Richard Strauss' Oboe Concerto with special guest Charles Hamann, principal oboe, National Arts Centre Orchestra.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 14.12.2007 - Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto with Jon Kimura ParkerChristopher's guest is the ebullient Canadian pianist Jon Kimura Parker, a virtuoso star who is also known for his outgoing personality and cheerful sense of humour. Jackie and Christopher discuss Beethoven's "Emperor" Piano Concerto No. 5.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 07.12.2007 - A Messiah RepriseBy popular demand ... In this very special NACOcast presentation, Christopher takes us on a 30-minute guided tour of that holiday perennial, Handel's Messiah.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 07.11.2007 - The World Orchestra for Peace [repost]As Remembrance Day approaches here in Canada, Christopher looks at The World Orchestra for Peace in a programme that first aired on CBC Radio in 2003. "The World Orchestra for Peace is an expression of harmony on all levels. It was founded in 1995 by Sir Georg Solti to reaffirm, in his words, 'the unique strength of music as an ambassador for peace'. Its players come from orchestras all over the world, many of them concert masters and section leaders in their own right, and the orchestra h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 18.10.2007 - Live with Pinchas Zukerman and Measha BrueggergosmanBeethoven Symphony no. 9 is the subject, and Pinchas Zukerman and Measha Brueggergosman are Christopher's guests on this live edition of the NACOcast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 31.08.2007 - Susan PlattsCanadian 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".Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NACOcast - 15.09.2007 - Beethoven Symphony No. 2To 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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