Category: Podcast
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Podcast – Composer & Sound Artist Ruby Colley
Ruby Colley’s new album Hello Halo — released 14 November 2025 alongside a short documentary film — distils a project that began in live performance. Premiered at King’s Place in February and revisited at the Aldeburgh Festival in June of this year, the work turns field recordings and family archive material into an exploration of…
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Sam Jackson on Radio 3, the BBC Proms, and cultural leadership
What does it mean to be a “programme maker” when strategy and credibility keep intruding? In this new Thoroughly Good Podcast, Sam Jackson talks Proms, Radio 3, and the contradictions of cultural leadership.
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The orchestra at the hospital bedside: why this podcast had to be different
Documenting the Britten Sinfonia’s collaboration with NHS Foundation Arts Residency at Addenbrooke’s Hospital for the Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast.
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10 Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcasts from 2022
Ten favourite episodes from the 2022 series of the Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast.
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Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast: Tenebrae Music Director Nigel Short
St Johns Smith Square Holy Week Festival 2021 begins on Sunday 28 March – Palm Sunday. Vocal group Tenebrae under the direction of Nigel Short features in pre-recorded and live streams as well as Amici Voices, violinist Lana Trotovšek, Bojan Čičić, and organist Steven Devine. For more information visit the St John’s Smith Square website. Listen…
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Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast: Pianist Clare Hammond
Pianist Clare Hammond releases a new disc ‘Variations’ on 5 March featuring piano variations by Hindemith, Copland, Adams and Szymanowski. It continues the pianist’s deeply felt work advocating active listening in discovery sessions specifically tailored for prisoners. COVID guidelines permitting, Hammond hopes to return to prisons in the UK sharing the repertoire on the disc…
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Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast 66: Discovering the music of Lully with Christophe Rousset
Conductor and harpsichordist Christophe Rousset discusses the writing of composer Lully .
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Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast 47: Pianist Nicolas Hodges discusses Messiaen’s Des Canyons aux étoiles
Nicolas Hodges appears at the BBC Proms 2019 in a performance of Messiaen’s Des Canyon aux étoiles.
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Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast 46: Cellist Matthew Barley
Matthew Barley’s recording of John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil was released on the Signum label in June 2019. It’s available via Spotify.