Podcast appearances and mentions of anna picard

From the bees on the roof to one of the finest violins in the world, the Academy is full of surprising treasures. In this episode, Anna Picard introduces people and parts of the building that listeners might not know about, and discovers what goes on behind the scenes to ensure that the Academy's remarkable collection of instruments will be played by generations to come. Including singing from an original Elizabethan part book, an introduction to Oliver Knussen's beloved collection of owls, and violinist James Ehnes playing a priceless Stradivarius, the stories behind these objects unlock the history of the Academy. Presenter: Anna PicardProducer: Natalie Steed Contributors: Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Ian Brearey, Kathryn Adamson, Patrick Russill, Barbara Meyer, IJmkje van der Werfe, James Ehnes, Sheldon Gabriel, Philip Cashian Executive Producers, Royal Academy of Music: George Chambers, Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Safi Schlicht Featured music: JS Bach Adagio from Sonata in G minor, BWV 1001, performed by James EhnesBeethoven Symphony No 8 in F, Op 93, performed by the Academy Chamber Orchestra with Lorenza BorraniMendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream performed by the Academy Symphony Orchestra with Andrew GourlayTallis O Nata Lux performed by Academy students Isla MacEwan, Anita Monserrat, Samuel Kibble, Henry Ross, Charles CunliffeJS Bach Largo from Sonata in C, BWV 1005, performed by James EhnesStravinsky Marche triomphale du diable from L'histoire du soldat performed by the Academy Manson Ensemble with Oliver Knussen See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the early part of the 20th century, Harriet Cohen, an Academy alumna, was a household name. Superficially known for her beauty and glamour, she wielded influence with some of the most important literary, political and cultural figures of her time – and she was a remarkable pianist. In this episode, Anna Picard explores Harriet's life and legacy, placing her alongside her pianist contemporaries Myra Hess and Irene Scharrer, and the man who taught them all, Tobias Matthay. We explore the Academy's pedagogical tradition, discuss the ‘male gaze' with Joanna MacGregor and hear from the late, great Quentin Crisp. Presenter: Anna PicardProducer: Natalie Steed Contributors: Helen Fry, Joanna MacGregor, Stephen Siek, Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Allyson Devenish, Rebecca Leung Executive Producers, Royal Academy of Music: George Chambers, Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Safi Schlicht Featured music: JS Bach Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor, BWV 1052, performed by Harriet CohenJS Bach Prelude No 1 in C, BWV 846, performed by Harriet CohenJS Bach arr Cohen Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 731, performed by Harriet CohenMozart Piano Sonata No 5 in G, K 283, performed by Irene ScharrerRavel Pavane pour une infante défunte performed by Myra HessJS Bach Prelude and Fugue in F sharp, BWV 858, performed by Academy student Rebecca LeungKabalevsky Piano Sonatina in C, Op 13 No 1, performed by Harriet CohenBax A Mountain Mood performed by Harriet Cohen With thanks to APR recordings for the use of their transfers of the historic recordings listed above. All are available on at aprrecordings.co.uk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

1968 saw a worldwide escalation of protest, invention and upheaval among a generation of students, musicians included. This episode takes the temperature of this time at the Academy, and investigates the tensions and reconciliations between tradition and the new. Anna Picard talks to some of the figures from that period, explores the longer history of ‘new music' at the Academy (including a surprising choice of rehearsal venue by John Barbirolli), discusses Stravinsky with conductor Edward Gardner, takes a walk in the park with some musical trees, and finds out whether that revolutionary spirit of artistic experimentation and invention is still alive at the Academy today. Presenter: Anna PicardProducer: Natalie Steed Contributors: Hugh Shrapnel, Melissa Doody, Elizabeth Kenny, Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Edward Gardner, Philip Cashian, Alex Hills, Lydia Walquist, Jessica Walker Executive Producers, Royal Academy of Music: George Chambers, Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Safi Schlicht All the music in this episode is performed by Royal Academy of Music students: Paul Paterson RebeccaCardew TreatiseBirtwistle Chorale from a Toy Shop – For Igor Stravinsky (Version for Strings) performed by Academy Manson Ensemble with Oliver KnussenRavel String Quartet in FStravinsky The Rite of Spring performed by the Academy Symphony Orchestra and The Juilliard School Orchestra with Edward GardnerMusic for Trees written and performed by Joseph Graydon, Arnau Brichs Ponce and Ellen DrewLouise Drewett Pizzica performed by Bianca BengErik Griswold Action Music See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In a pair of old photos outside the Academy's Library of the class of 1918, there are two black students – composer and multi-instrumentalist Edmund T Jenkins and mezzo-soprano Evelyn Dove. In this episode, Anna Picard explores who they were, how they both forged successful careers and what their stories tell us about ‘high' and ‘low' art at that moment in history. We bring Edmund and Evelyn's worlds to life with rare recordings of their music, and we hear from Edmund's great-nephew, who is keeping his music alive for a new generation. Presenter: Anna PicardProducer: Natalie Steed Contributors: Stephen Bourne, Melissa Doody, Julius P Williams, Allyson Devenish, Tuffus ZimbabweExecutive Producers, Royal Academy of Music: George Chambers, Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Safi Schlicht Featured music: Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue performed by the Academy Symphony Orchestra with Edward Gardner and Adrian Brendel (piano)Busse, Johnson and Mueller Wang Wang Blues performed by Jack Hylton's Jazz Band (restored masters provided by Bear Family Records)Spiritual arr Burleigh I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray performed by Evelyn Dove (restored masters provided by Bear Family Records)Gershwin The Man I Love performed by Academy students Imogen Churchill (vocals), Toby Yapp (double bass), Scottie Thompson (piano)Coleridge-Taylor Nonet performed by Royal Academy of Music StudentsJenkins arr T Zimbabwe Folk Rhapsody performed by Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra with Julius P WilliamsShields/Ragas Clarinet Marmalade performed by James Rees Europe's 369th US Infantry ‘Hell Fighters' BandJenkins arr Plush Charlestonia performed by Studio orchestra & Philip Brunelle (Conductor)Jenkins arr Tuffus Zimbabwe Dance of Love performed by Tuffus ZimbabweComposer and composition unknown performed by Jenkins Orphanage BandKern The Bullfrog Patrol performed by Queen's Dance Orchestra featuring Edmund T Jenkins (restored masters provided by Bear Family Records)Spiritual arr Laurence Brown Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit performed by Evelyn Dove (restored masters provided by Bear Family Records) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When the Royal Academy of Music opened its doors to its first 20 students in 1823, there were equal numbers of boys and girls. In this first episode, Anna Picard traces the stories of some of the women of the Academy including Fanny Dickens, the elder sister of Charles Dickens. We also hear from the participants of a pioneering women-only conducting course and try to unravel what playing in a gendered way might mean. Along the way there is, as always, some glorious music from Academy students. Presenter: Anna PicardProducer: Natalie Steed Contributors: Kathryn Adamson, Briony Cox-Williams, Phyllis Weliver, Jonathan Freeman- Attwood, Hannah Stell, Elizabeth Kenny, Lucy Powell, Sian Edwards, Peggy Wu, Beth Fitzpatrick Voice of Frederick Corder: Michael Bertenshaw Executive Producers, Royal Academy of Music: George Chambers, Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Safi Schlicht All the music in this episode is performed by Royal Academy of Music students: Mozart Serenade in B flat, K 361, ‘Gran Partita', performed by Royal Academy of Music Symphonic WindHaydn String Quartet in G, Op 77 No 1 (second movement), performed by the Echea QuartetFerdinand David Trombone Concertino, Op 4, performed by Hannah StellTchaikovsky The Queen of Spades, Op 68, performed by Hannah StellWagner Ride of the Valkyries performed by Hannah StellRebecca Clarke Ave Maria performed by Milette Gillow and Ivy LiangRebecca Clarke The Cloths of Heaven performed by Lauren Macleod and Stella Marie LorenzSchubert Symphony No 4 in C minor, D 417, 'Tragic', performed by the Academy Chamber Orchestra with Lorenza Borrani See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Skye C. Cleary to discuss Simone de Beauvoir's ‘lost' novel, ‘The Inseparables', published almost seventy years after it was written; Anna Picard reviews a very dark production of ‘Rigoletto' at the Royal Opera House; plus, buying and selling (and maybe stealing) Emily Dickinson's hair (maybe).'The Inseparables' by Simone de Beauvoir'Rigoletto' by Giuseppe Verdi, at the Royal Opera House, until September 29, then February–March, 2022 A special subscription offer for TLS podcast listeners: www.the-tls.co.uk/buy/podProducer: Ben Mitchell See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage talks about his new poetry collection Magnetic Field: the Marsden Poems, which is inspired by the West Yorkshire village he grew up in. As classical musicians struggle to cope with the loss of their income due to the cancellation of all concerts, Samira is joined by music critic Anna Picard, Deborah Annetts of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, and pianist Stephen Hough, who plays live from his home. Former Children's Laureate Chris Riddell pays tribute to the French comic book artist Albert Uderzo, co-creator of Asterix, who has died aged 92. Presenter: Timothy Prosser Producer: Samira Ahmed Main Image: Simon Armitage Image credit: Robert Shiret/BBC

A newly discovered, pseudonymously signed mock-letter to the editor of 'The Lady’s Magazine' in 1823 tells the story of a wannabe writer who is visited by the "gentle spirit of Miss Austen". Not only might the letter offer new information on what Austen might actually have been like, says Devoney Looser, it is also the first piece of Jane Austen-inspired fan fiction; Anna Picard discusses the poet Anne Boyer’s memoir of modern illness and considers the intersections of literature and cancer; Jonathan Lynn shares memories of adventures with his cousin Oliver SacksFor more on the Jane Austen story, go to www.the-tls.co.uk'The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care' by Anne Boyer See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The 2019 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition has been won by the Ukrainian baritone Andrei Kymach. The week-long competition held every two years is one of the most significant competitions in the classical calendar and has helped make stars of many participants since its inception in 1983. We hear from this year's winner Andrei Kymach and from music critic Anna Picard. This week marks the 50th anniversary since the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York, a key moment in the birth of the gay rights movement. Each night this week Front Row will be reflecting on the best examples of queer fiction since then, one night for each decade. We begin with the 1970s and our guide to the decade is poet and critic Gregory Woods. As we head into the final weeks of this year's prestigious Art Fund Museum of the Year competition, Front Row looks at the five shortlisted institutions vying for the top prize of £100,000. Today it’s the turn of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, whose director Dr Laura Van Broekhoven explains why she believes the Pitt Rivers would be a worthy winner. Plus novelist Celia Brayfield joins Stig to discuss the work of writer Judith Krantz whose glamorous romantic novels have sold over 85 million copies worldwide. Presenter : Stig Abell Producer : Dymphna Flynn

The contemporary classical composer Gavin Bryars talks about the latest incarnation of his acclaimed 1971 work, Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet – a 12-hour overnight rendition at Tate Modern in London. The piece is based on a fragment of tape of a homeless man singing, and this performance combines the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Bryars’s own ensemble, the Southbank Sinfonia, and the participation of several homeless people. Gavin Bryars also contributes his thoughts to the question: can opera singers sing pop and vice versa? What are the main differences between a trained bel canto voice and what some would call the more natural approach taken by folk, jazz or rock singers? Music critic Anna Picard and Christopher Purves, opera singer and former member of jazz vocal group Harvey and the Wallbangers, discuss. Hailed by Zadie Smith as 'uncommonly poised and truly beautiful', the debut novelist Isabella Hammad discusses her 500-page epic The Parisian, set around the Palestinian struggle for independence in the early twentieth century. Presenter Janina Ramirez Producer Jerome Weatherald

Anna Picard discusses the problems of subject matter and sensationalism in the new opera Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel; Anna Vaux talks us through the Bauhaus school and its global influence, as well as Lucian Freud's compulsion to create and controlBooksJack the Ripper:The Women of Whitechapel by Iain Bell, ENO, until April 12Walter Gropius: Visionary founder of the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthyJosef Albers: Life and work by Charles DarwentLucian Freud by Martin Gayford See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Anna Picard recommends recordings of Ravel's L’enfant et les sortilèges

Anna Picard recommends a recorded version of Puccini's Il Tabarro

Anna Picard compares recordings on CD and DVD of Stravinsky's operatic morality tale.

Anna Picard compares recordings of Mascagni's perennially popular 'Cavalleria Rusticana'

Anna Picard recommends a version from the available recordings of Handel's opera Orlando

This week, Anna Picard is our guide through the rich and varied collection of songs by Henry Purcell