Podcast appearances and mentions of Nicholas Collon

Samira Ahmed talks to Pat Barker about the final part of her Troy trilogy, The Voyage Home. Alain Delon has died at the age of 88 - President Macron called him a French monument. Film critic Ginette Vincendeau assesses his impact on French film. At the Proms two orchestras are set to play works by Beethoven and Mozart from memory - conductor Nicholas Collon from the Aurora Orchestra explains how musicians manage without a score. And Orlando Weeks - formerly the frontman of Mercury Prize-nominated band The Maccabees - plays live in the studio and talks about the art he now creates, alongside music. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Paula McGrath

Tom Service talks to pianist and writer, Susan Tomes, about her new book Women and the Piano - a History in 50 Lives. Those lives include well-known names today, from Clara Schumann to Nina Simone, but also many women like Marianne Martinez who have been eclipsed from previous histories of pianists. Tom and Susan discuss how women went from being the Queens of the piano in domestic settings to being excluded from public performances and conservatoires during the development of the concert piano. Pianist, Lucy Parham, talks to Tom too about the impact that Susan's book has had on her, and she talks about life today for female pianists.The Afghan Youth Orchestra is embarking on its first UK tour - Breaking the Silence. Currently exiled in Portugal, the young musicians live and study, having escaped the Taliban's censorship of music. The orchestra's founder, Dr Ahmad Sarmast and two of his violinists, Sevinch Majidi and Ali Sina Hotak, talk to Tom about their hopes of keeping Afghanistan's situation on the international radar through their music, which fuses traditional and Western instruments into a bold new sound.Tenor Allan Clayton and Aurora Orchestra join forces in a new and highly imaginative theatrical production of Hans Zender's composed interpretation of Schubert's Winterreise. Tom Service finds out more when he visits them in rehearsal. He talks to Allan alongside Aurora's conductor Nicholas Collon and creative director Jane Mitchell about Zender's interpretation of Schubert's original song-cycle.Tom Service also talks to Kerry Andrew, multi-talented composer, singer, performer and writer. Kerry's third novel, We are Together Because, is out now and Tom talks to them about how music infuses their writing. Tom also talks to Kerry about their last album - Hare - Hunter - Moth - Ghost - recorded as You Are Wolf and in which they turn folk songs and myths inside out.

Jess Gillam meets with the conductor Nicholas Collon to share some of the music they love. Today their musical journey takes in the harmonic genius of Jacob Collier, glorious choral music by Poulenc, a youthful Octet by Mendelssohn, a dreamy song from Sibelius, Britten's iconic Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, some grooves from Pino Palladino and Taylor Swift visits The Lakes. Playlist: Felix Mendelssohn – Octet in E flat major, IV. Presto [Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble] Pino Palladino & Blake Mills – Ekute Francis Poulenc – Figure humaine, VIII. Liberte [Tenebrae, Nigel Short] Benjamin Britten - The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra [London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten] Taylor Swift – The Lakes Sibelius - Lieder No. 4 Op 37 - Was it a Dream [Kari Lövaas, Berliner Symphoniker, Eduardo Marturet] Jacob Collier / Henry Mancini – Moon River Carl Nielsen - Symphony No. 4, Op. 29 (FS76) 'The Inextinguishable'; 1. Allegro [Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi]

durée : 00:59:51 - En pistes, contemporains ! du dimanche 08 janvier 2023 - par : Emilie Munera - Pour ce premier tour de piste de l'année chez les contemporains, nous irons faire un tour du côté de la Finlande. L'orchestre symphonique de la radio finlandaise et son nouveau chef, Nicholas Collon, ont enregistré les oeuvres orchestrales du compositeur Thomas Adès. - réalisé par : Céline Parfenoff

durée : 00:11:27 - Adès : Orchestral Works - The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra - À l'automne 2021, l'Orchestre symphonique de la radio finlandaise et son nouveau chef d'orchestre, Nicholas Collon, ont organisé un festival Thomas Adès à Helsinki consacré à la musique du compositeur de renommée mondiale en plus d'œuvres d'autres compositeurs choisis et dirigés par Thomas Adès.

Gepresenteerd door: Hans van den Boom Mooie opnamen uit het rijke archief van Het Zondagochtend Concert. ca. 10.05 uur   Johannes Brahms - Serenade nr. 2, op.16 Camerata RCO (opname van 9 mei 2021)  ca. 10.33 uur   Sergei Rachmaninov - Rapsodie op 'n thema van Paganini, op.43 Alexei Volodin (piano) Noord Nederlands Orkest o.l.v. Tianyi Lu (opname van 21 februari 2021) ca. 10.58 uur   Pjotr Tsjaikovski - Strijksextet, op.70  'Souvenir de Florence' Solisten van het Concertgebouw Kamerorkest (opname van 22 november 2020) ca. 11.40 uur   Robert Schumann - Celloconcert, op.129 Julian Steckel (cello) Residentie Orkest o.lv. Nicholas Collon (opname van 25 april 2021) ca. 12.04 uur Gioacchino Rossini - Ouverture La gazza ladra Radio Filharmonisch Orkest o.l.v. Giancarlo Andretta (opname van 2 september 2018)

Gepresenteerd door: Hans van den Boom Andreas Scholl, countertenor Maarten Engeltjes, countertenor Frans van Deursen (Shakespeare Sonnetten) PRJCT Amsterdam barokorkest * Shakespeare - Sonnet  97 * Henry Purcell - Sinfonia- Welcome to all the pleasures  * Henry Purcell - Here the deities   * Shakespeare - Sonnet  8 * Henry Purcell - Sound the trumpet duet * Henry Purcell - Chaconey Z628 * Henry Purcell -  If music be the food of love * Shakespeare - Sonnet 56 * Henry Purcell - No, Resistance is but vain duet * Henry Purcell - Music for a while  * Henry Purcell - Sweeter than roses * Shakespeare - Sonnet  49 * Henry Purcell - The plaint  * John Blow - Ah heav'n what is't I hear * Shakespeare - Sonnet 64 * Henry Purcell - King Arthur: What power art thou  * Henry Purcell - Chaconey in g minor Z730 * Henry Purcell - When I am laid in earth  * Shakespeare - Sonnet  27 * Henry Purcell - An evening Hymn  * Henry Purcell - O dive custos auriacae Domus * Shakespeare- Sonnet  18 * Henry Purcell - King Arthur: Fairest Isle * Schots traditional - Annie Laurie Rechtstreeks vanuit de Grote Zaal van TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht. Aansluitend: Edward Elgar - Enigma Variaties Residentie Orkest o.l.v. Nicholas Collon (opname AT Vrijdagconcert van 21 sept. 2018)

Brittiläinen Nicholas Collon on aloittanut kautensa RSO:n historian ensimmäisenä ulkomaalaisena ylikapellimestarina. Mihin Ylen sinfoniaorkesteri on matkalla?

Jess Gillam joins up with the Australian violinist Courtenay Cleary to share some of their favourite music, including an iconic work by Richard Strauss, a highly charged Janacek String Quartet, a spellbinding farewell from David Bowie, kaleidoscopic Australian jazz-funk and a special gift from the Aurora Orchestra. Playlist: R. Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic) Janacek - String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters" (Emersen String Quartet) David Bowie - Lazarus Arvo Part - Fratres (Ursula Schoch, Marcel Worms) Marcello - Oboe Concerto in D Minor (Heinz Holliger, I Musici) Hiatus Kaiyote - Nakamarra Scriabin - Piano Sonata No.5 in F Sharp Major (Vladimir Ashkenazy) Barber - Sure On This Shining Night (Allan Clayton with Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon)

Nicholas Collon is a conductor with seemingly boundless energy and a huge enthusiasm for everything he does - and this podcast episode is no exception! We chatted about his hugely successful Aurora Orchestra, his guilty secrets of music he hasn't listened to, his next venture in Finland and how to get young children to sleep! So - Let's get listening!Produced by Cheryl Davis Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nicholas Collon is a very popular conductor across the UK, Europe, and beyond. He is also very enjoyable to chat with. I found out why he took up the viola, why the Aurora Orchestra first decided to play from memory and he has a very surprising and rather apt choice of final drink!  The Patreon exclusive mini-episode can be found here (https://www.patreon.com/amiconthepodium) along with lots of other new content when you subscribe.

Residentie Orkest Nicholas Collon, dirigent Dejan Lazic, piano * Th. Verbey - Fractal Variations * W.A. Mozart - Concert voor piano en orkest no.12, KV.414 * J. Sibelius - Pelléas en Melisande (rechtstreekse uitzending vanuit TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht) Residentie Orkest Nicholas Collon, dirigent Stefan Jackiw, viool * P. Tsjaikovski - Vioolconcert, op.35 (opname van 21 sept. 2018 in TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht) Residentie Orkest Nicholas Collon, dirigent * R. Strauss - Suite uit 'Der Rosenkavalier' (opname van 8 dec. 2019 in het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam)

Founder and conductor of the groundbreaking Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon explores the music that has inspired him over the years, from the Bach piano pieces he learnt as a child to glorious moments of English choral music.Episode Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/36bnWpyFELm1D9vW0qw5jx?si=WhTnLEVjTnqhbgzBLrUVqAWebsite: Classical-music.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sam and Tim dissect one of Julius Eastman's most controversially titled works, catch up with the gang from Living Room Live and discuss spherical music with the Founder and Principal Conductor of the Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon.Thomas Wilkins, Michael Morgan, Jonathon Heyward and Roderick Cox discuss their careers through the lens of their skin colour and mutual experiences of prejudice within the industry: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=922849801475019Stolen John Packer instruments: https://www.4barsrest.com/news/41452/burglars-target-john-packer-ltdSusie Blankfield's jewellery collection: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/susiemakesbeads Harry Enfield shocks Radio 4's listeners: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jun/11/harry-enfield-defends-use-of-blackface-today-programme-nick-robinsonMusic Credits: ‘Tim and Sam's Podcast' written and performed by Harry Sever 'Sneaky Snitch' by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com/, promoted by MrSnooze https://youtu.be/I2m1h0ALpY4, Creative Commons — CC BY 3.0 https://goo.gl/A7jRXAJulius Eastman's ‘Evil N*****', performed by Piano for Two Max Richter's ‘Journey (CP1919)', performed by Aurora under Nicholas CollonFollow us here: instagram.com/classicalpod/ twitter.com/ClassicalPod facebook.com/ClassicalPod/

The conductor of Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon, talks to James Jolly about their brand-new DG release, 'Music of the Spheres'. It links themed-music that takes in Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, Thomas Adès's violin concerto, Concentric Paths (played by Pekka Kuusisto), a Dowland song arranged by Nico Muhly, 'Time stands still', Max Richter's Journey (CP1919) and David Bowie's song 'Life on Mars' (in an arrangement by John Barber and sung by Sam Swallow).

New Hampshiren esivaalit, Pohjois-Amerikan tutkimuksen professori Benita Heiskanen Turun yliopistosta. Valmennuskurssibisneksen kohteena entistä nuoremmat, opetus- ja kulttuuriministeri Li Andersson. Mediakenttä keskittyy. Sanoma ilmoitti eilen ostavansa Alma Median maakuntalehdet. Studiossa tiedotusopin dosentti Heikki Hellman, vastaava päätoimittaja Jouko Jokinen, Yle ja Kaius Niemi, Helsingin Sanomat. RSO ja uusi kapellimestari Nicholas Collon, RSO:n intendentti Tuula Sarotie. Kolumni, Saara Särmä: Jätä muiden mielenterveysongelmien diagnosoiminen ammattilaisille. Uusinta: New Hampshiren esivaalit, Pohjois-Amerikan tutkimuksen professori Benita Heiskanen Turun yliopistosta. Juontajana Seija Vaaherkumpu, tomittajina Silja Raunio ja Atte Uusinoka. Tuottajana Tarja Oinonen.

Ahead of the Aurora Orchestra's much-anticipated appearance performing Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique at the BBC Proms 2019, conductor Nicholas Collon discusses his career to date and looks ahead to his new role as Chief Conductor at the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. 

What happens when the composer that you've commissioned to write a new opera says to you, "Sit down -- I have something to tell you," and that something is that she's fallen in love... with a beatbox artist? The first Opera for All Voices (OFAV) commission, Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun, is scheduled to premiere in the Fall of 2019 and this episode is a very early look at the creative process of Grammy Award winning composer, Augusta Read Thomas. We get a deep dive into how she "sculpts sound" to create magic, and how collaboration is such a crucial element in the way she composes new work. The collaboration gets even livelier as we meet renowned beat-box artist, founder of Drop The Beats, and actor Nicole Paris, who plays an integral role in the original soundscaping of this new opera. Listen in and fall in love for yourself. *** Special music in this episode used with permission by Augusta Read Thomas. Helix Spirals for String Quartet: Mvt. I. Loci, memory palace. Performed by the Spektral Quartet. Of Being is a Bird: Mvt. II. The most triumphant Bird I ever knew or met. Claire Booth, soprano, Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon conductor. Love Twitters for solo piano. Nicola Melville, piano. *** Key Change is a production of The Santa Fe Opera in collaboration with Opera For All Voices. Produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios Hosts: Andrea Fellows Walters and Brandon Neal Audio Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe Theme music by Rene Orth with Corrie Stallings, mezzo-soprano, and Joe Becktell, cello. Cover art by David Tousley Special thanks to Halfway to Hell Studios in Albuquerque and C.W. Media in Chicago OFAV Consortium Members:  Lyric Opera for Kansas City, Minnesota Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, San Francisco Opera, Sarasota Opera and Seattle Opera. This podcast is made possible due to the generous funding from the Melville Hankins Family Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and an OPERA America Innovation Grant, supported by the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation.   To learn more about Opera for all voices, visit us at SantaFeOpera.org

Picks from across the week, including Chris Riddell, Rachel Podger, Nicholas Collon and Dame Beryl Grey.

I programmet diskuterar panelen bl. a. Tobias Berndts tolkning av 28 Fanny Hensel-sånger samt kammarmusik av engelsmannen Gerald Finzi. Dessutom möter vi den unge pianisten Daniil Trifonov. I panelen Aurélie Ferrier, Hanns Rodell och Magnus Lindman som tillsammans med programledaren Johan Korssell betygsätter följande skivor:  FANNY HENSEL Goethe-sånger Tobias Berndt, baryton Alexander Fleischer, piano Querstand VKJK 1509 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Cembalokonserter BWV 1052 1057 Andreas Staier, cembalo Freiburgs barockorkester Harmonia Mundi HMC 902181-82 GERALD FINZI Fem bagateller, Elegi, Preludium och Fuga m.m. Kölns kammarsolister MDG 903 1894-6ALEXANDER SKRJABIN Symfonier nr 3 och 4 Oslo filharmoniker Vasily Petrenko, dirigent Lawo LWC 1088Sofia möter pianisten Daniil Trifonov Sofia Nyblom mötte den unge konsertpianisten i samband med Stockholms-besöket och Nobelkonserten i Stockholms konserthus den 8 december 2015, då Trifonov framträdde som solist i Rachmaninovs tredje pianokonsert tillsammans med Kungliga filharmonikerna och dirigenten Franz Welser-Möst. Andra nämnda eller rekommenderade inspelningarBachs klaverkonserter med Trevor Pinnock och The English Concert på Archiv och DG; Pierre Hantaï tillsammans med Le Concert Francais på skivmärket Astree samt med cembalisten Lars Ulrik Mortensen och Concerto Copenhagen på CPO. Nytt Finzi-album Introit med Aurora Orchestra under ledning av Nicholas Collon på Decca. Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohns sånger med sopranen Susan Gritton ackompanjerad av Eugene Asti på märke Hyperion (tidigare recenserad i CD-revyn). Felix och Fanny Mendelssohns stråkkvartetter med Ebène-kvartetten på Virgin Classics (tidigare recenserad i CD-revyn). Skrjabins symfonier med New Yorks filharmoniker under Giuseppe Sinopoli på DG samt Londons symfoniorkester dirigerad av Valerij Gergiev på egna märket LSO Live samt med Philadelphia-orkestern under Riccardo Mutis ledarskap på EMI. SvepetJohan sveper över Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem i en inspelning med sopranen Lore Binon och barytonen Tassis Christoyannis tillsammans med Flamländska radions kör allt under ledning av Hervé Niquet på skivmärket Evil Penguin.

Memorization is ingrained in the protocol of classical music performance. Singers, solo pianists and concerto soloists are usually expected to play "by heart." However, trios, string quartets and larger ensembles almost never play from memory (with occasional exceptions). But these rules, which evolved over time, may not stand up to close scrutiny. Some musicians find memorization liberating, but others say it inhibits, creating an unnecessary fear of forgetting the music. On this week's episode, we get two views on the topic. The concert pianist and writer Stephen Hough says he thinks it's time to reconsider the conventions around memorization. He asks, "Isn't it most important that we play our best? And if we really play our best with a score in front of us – or these days an iPad in front of us – perhaps we shouldn't pay too much attention to this." Hough notes with some amusement that audience members will frequently approach him backstage and express amazement at how he remembered all of the notes. But not, "'how did you find the musical meaning behind those notes, how do you pedal, how do you find nuance,' or all those thousands of things that we musicians work on all the time." Also joining us is Nicholas Collon, the conductor and founder of Aurora Orchestra, a London-based chamber orchestra that recently performed Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 at the BBC Proms, without using scores or sheet music. The performance proved to be controversial, first dismissed by some pundits as a gimmick (reviews, however, were overwhelmingly positive). Collon says that some players found the preparation "stressful" at first, but ultimately it was liberating. Segment Highlights Hough on memorization's historical place: "In Chopin's time, it was considered disrespectful to play without the score. At that time, if you played from memory, you were improvising." Collon on memorizing Mozart's 40th Symphony: "To be honest, the musicians said yes to this eight months ago and thought, 'this will be easy.' Then about a month ago, they started thinking, 'oh dear, we've actually got to do that.'" Hough: "There are artists like Myra Hess or [Sviatoslav] Richter or Clifford Curzon who played all the time from music and have so many wonderful things to say. Who am I to say to Richter, 'I'm sorry, you can't come and play in public because you're not playing from memory?'" Collon: "Memorization is not the goal. It's part of the journey to get there and something that we'll do on the way." Listen to the above segment and tell us what you think below: Does memorization matter? Do you enjoy performances that are memorized more than those that aren't? .chart_div { width: 600px; height: 300px; } loadSurvey( "it-time-stop-expecting-musicians-memorize", "survey_it-time-stop-expecting-musicians-memorize");  

For Britten's centenary year, Fiona Shaw directs a new production of The Rape of Lucretia, which had its first performance at Glyndebourne in 1946. In this podcast, presenter Peggy Reynolds shares some of the recollections of the original production's star - the great mezzo Kathleen Ferrier - and the creative team who brought Britten's work to the stage. Glyndebourne's dramaturg Cori Ellison, considers the place of The Rape of Lucretia within Britten's canon of works, as the first of his 'chamber operas', and explores the source material for Ronald Duncan's libretto. The conductor, Nicholas Collon, reflects on the historical moment Lucretia was born out of and celebrates Britten's extraordinary vocal and orchestral writing. And Fiona Shaw unfolds the layers of the opera, telling Lucretia's story and considering the work's ongoing significance. [Producer: Mair Bosworth for Tour 2013]