The Recital Room
Music Podcasts
Bringing the recital room to you, wherever you are. An online concert series exploring classical music through podcasts. Each episode focuses on repertoire through a mini-recital, with performer interviews, audio notes and translations. Our aim is broaden the audience for art-song, chamber music and other classical music recitals, and to open up the doors of the recital room to the widest possible audience.
Location:
United Kingdom
Genres:
Music Podcasts
Description:
Bringing the recital room to you, wherever you are. An online concert series exploring classical music through podcasts. Each episode focuses on repertoire through a mini-recital, with performer interviews, audio notes and translations. Our aim is broaden the audience for art-song, chamber music and other classical music recitals, and to open up the doors of the recital room to the widest possible audience.
Twitter:
@recitalroom
Language:
English
Website:
http://www.recitalroom.co.uk/
Email:
info@recitalroom.co.uk
Episodes
Episode 5 – Schumann and Kulmann
5/6/2018
This episode explores the extraordinary life of the Russian poet Elisabeth Kulmann and the settings of her poems to music by Robert Schumann. The featured recital is performed by Mhairi Lawson and Eugene Asti, recorded at the Oxford Lieder Festival in 2016.
Duration:00:39:46
Episode 2 – Young Schumann
3/4/2017
This episode features an exclusive performance of Schumann's very first songs, composed when he was still a teenager writing poetry in his bedroom. Some of these song texts are in fact his own, and we're treated to a performance of them from tenor Stuart Jackson and pianist Sholto Kynoch, with some insightful chat from Ben and Mark and an interview with Sholto afterwards.
Duration:00:52:10
Episode 1 – Beethoven
2/18/2017
Episode 1 of The Recital Room. Benedict Nelson and Mark Stone chat about Beethoven, poetic doctors, and how not to impress the opposite sex with musical tribute. Featuring an exclusive performance of Beethoven's seminal song cycle An die ferne Geliebte by English duo Ben Johnson and Sholto Kynoch.
Duration:00:41:03
Recital Room – Episode Zero
2/11/2017
The opening episode of the Recital Room podcast. Ben and Mark introduce the series.
Duration:00:04:13