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Presto Music Classical Podcast

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Presto Music Classical Podcast is a music podcast hosted by Presto Music. It has 58 episodes, with the latest published May 2025.

Conversations from the world of classical music hosted by Presto Music's Paul Thomas, David Smith, Rob Cowan, Matt Ash and more. Guests have included artists such as Jess Gillam, Anna Lapwood and Patricia Kopatchinskaja, and respected writers and critics like Rob Cowan, David Hurwitz and Andrew Mellor. Visit us at www.prestomusic.com

music ·en-us ·58 episodes

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1

Antal Doráti in London, with producer Thomas Fine

2

James Rhodes shares some of his MANíA

3

Rufus Wainwright on his Dream Requiem

4

John Suchet goes In Search of Beethoven with Rob Cowan

5

Manfred Honeck talks to Rob Cowan about Bruckner Symphony No.7

6

Rebeca Omordia talks African Pianism

7

Twenty-Five Years of LSO Live

8

Nunconventional - The Poor Clares of Arundel on their second album for Decca

9

A Close-Up Look - Heloïse Werner on her latest solo album

10

Berliner Philharmoniker celebrates a double anniversary

11

Doubling Brahms - Busoni and his violin concerto with Francesca Dego

12

An Invitation to the Dance - Storming the ‘barricades mystérieuses’ with Martin James Bartlett

13

La Divina - Rob Cowan and Alain Lanceron on the centenary of Maria Callas's birth

14

Tudor Wild Child - Thomas Weelkes with Dr Katie Bank

15

Take me to your Lieder - Schubert in English with Roderick Williams, Rowan Pierce and Christopher Glynn

16

Sound the Trombone! Onyx Brass at 30 with Amos Miller

17

A Great Musical Dett - Choral Music by Black Composers with Dr Marques Garrett

18

Standing out from the Crowd - Arthur Bliss with Paul Spicer

19

A Russian Soul in Exile - Rachmaninoff with Fiona Maddocks

20

A Mercury Legend - Antal Doráti with Rob Cowan and Thomas Fine

21

Belle de nuit – Chatting to Emmanuel Despax about 'Après un rêve'

22

Brahms In The Time Machine – Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem with Lionel Meunier

23

I've Started, So I'll Finish – A Return to Mozart with Robert Levin

24

Tom & Will (& Jimmy & Roddy) – Tudor Anniversaries with Fretwork and The King's Singers

25

Golden Oldies - The Brodsky Quartet at 50

26

Four with Scores - Quartet with Leah Broad

27

Music for Albion - Vaughan Williams at 150 with John Francis

28

Mysticism, Modernism and Music - Scriabin with Marina Frolova-Walker

29

Music from the Golden Age of Hollywood with John Wilson

30

Eine kleine Havanamusik with Sarah Willis

31

Karel Ančerl Live Recordings with Rob Cowan and Matouš Vlčinský

32

A Life in Notes - The Art of Music Biography

33

On the Fiddle with Charlotte Gardner

34

The Story of Presto Music with Chris O'Reilly

35

On Song with The Hermes Experiment

36

Wilhelm Furtwängler with Rob Cowan and David Hurwitz

37

Musicological Musings with Daniel Elphick

38

A Great Dane - Andrew Mellor on Carl Nielsen

39

Fresh Air in the Pipes - Organ Music with Anna Lapwood

40

Conducting a Laugh - Classical Comedy with Rainer Hersch

41

A Tale of Three Conductors with Rob Cowan

42

Pierrot Lunaire with Patricia Kopatchinskaja

43

Britain, by George! - Handel with Suzanne Aspden

44

Clarinet Chronicles with Julian Bliss

45

The Music of Malcolm Arnold

46

Symphonic Titans - Bruckner & Mahler with Peter Quantrill

47

A Song in Our Hearts with Natasha Loges

48

Tinkling the Ivories with Harriet Smith

49

Across the Pond with David Hurwitz

50

The English Choral Tradition with David Smith

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