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NACOcast: A Classical Music Podcast — 153 episodes
A musical love triangle: Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.
Celebrating the NAC Orchestra’s 50th anniversary season
Rachel Mercer: NAC Orchestra Principal Cellist
Peter Oundjian on his career in music
Carrefour Composer Remy Siu
Carrefour Composer Ian Cusson
Paul Wells interviews Howard Shore
Timo Andres
Elim Chan
Blake Pouliot
NAC Orchestra 50th Anniversary European Tour
Vivian Fung
Yosuke Kawasaki and Jessica Linnebach
Charles Hamann speaks with the students of the 2018 Young Artists Program
Shostakovich’s Violin Concert No1 and Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No3
Jessica Holmes
Doo Wop Project and Jack Everly
Beethoven's Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Symphonies
Beethoven's Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Symphonies
Beethoven's First Three Symphonies
Karina Canellakis
The Man with the Violin
Natasha Gauthier with Alice Sara Ott and Eivind Gullberg Jensen
Institute for Orchestral Studies
Joana Carneiro, NACO and the Tanztheater Wuppertal – Pina Bausch dance company
Chip Hamann's new CD, Canadian Works for Oboe & Piano
Robert Chafe, lyricist for "Heirloom" co-produced with Larysa Kuzmenko
Joel Quarrington and his new album: Schubert "An Die Musik"
Ideas of North
ENCOUNT3RS - Creation and Colaboration
Soul Stirring Music
A Night of Classical Collisions #TheKiss
Joel Quarrington and Peter Paul Koprowski's Concertante for Double Bass, Strings and Percussion
Canadian Brass
Is Classical Music Really Dead?
Sean Rice chats with Nadia Sirota before the Canadian premiere of Nico Muhly’s Electrifying Viola Concerto
Exploring the works of Richard Strauss with Alexander Shelley
Sean Rice takes you inside the music of the All-Canadian Wolfgang Session Number 5
Humour in Music
Special Edition: Sean Rice, 2nd clarinetist with the NAC orchestra, interviews Bryce Dessner
Sound the Trumpet
Canadian Voices
Who's Afraid of Anton Bruckner?
Green and Pleasant Land
Eric Friesen Presents his talk "Orchestral Schmorgesborg"
Alexander Shelley and the 2015/2016 NAC Orchestra Season
WolfGANG: Ryan Lott (Son Lux)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: A retrospective view
Nick speaks with conductor, Michael Francis, and National Youth Orchestra director Barbara Smith
The Great War and Canada: An Interview with Margaret MacMillan
WW I: A Personal Journey
Shakespeare, Stravinsky and Alexander Shelley
Jon Kimura Parker on Mendelssohn
Schumann’s Symphony No. 4 with Eric Friesen
The NAC Orchestra's Institute for Orchestral Studies
"Fate Lurks, but Tunes Triumph" with guest host Eric Friesen
Brahms Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, with guest host Paul Wells
Drums along the Rideau
Operatic Athletes (Part 2)
Operatic Athletes (Part 1)
The Oboe - Beyond the 'A'
Shostakovich and music in Soviet Russia
China Tour Remembered
Spanish Music
The Slavic Bass
Maestro Mario Bernardi remembered (2006 Interview)
The Noble Trombone
The Strange Case of Antonio Salieri with author Ian Kyer (free ebook included)
Scottish Folk Songs, Haydn, Beethoven and Robbie Burns
Around the Horn
Paul Wells Interviews Alexina Louie
NACO librarians, Margo and Greg Hodgson
George Gershwin, with Jack Everly
Eric Friesen and Pinchas Zukerman on Elgar's Violin Concerto
Touring and Inuit Throat Singing in Canada's Arctic
The Art of Tito Schipa: A Vocal Approach to Brass Playing
Robert Harris on "Beethoven The Revolutionary"
Paul Kennedy: "What was Beethoven thinking?"
Robert Harris on "Brahms The Progressive"
La Bohème with Alexander Shelley
In Memoriam: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
"Low Notes"
The Leading Note Foundation and El Sistema
"The English Parlour Song Revisited"
"From Band to Orchestra"
Chris hands off to Nick
Maestro Trevor Pinnock
Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer on "Happiness" in music
Trevor Pinnock interviewed by Eric Friesen
Susan Knight, from St. John's NL
Paul Wells and Thomas Dausgaard explore Sibelius No. 1
William Littler
"The Trumpet Shall Sound"
Rob Kapilow
Jonathan Biss, Pinchas Zukerman - Beethoven's Spring Sonata
On Antonio Salieri with Ian Kyer
Guest host: Robert Harris
Guest host: Paul Kennedy
Guest host: Paul Wells
"Hijacked!!"
"To Repeat, or not to Repeat" (with Leonard Slatkin)
"On The Spot"
"Practice Makes Perfect"
"Measuring Time"
NAC Orchestra 2009/10 Season Preview
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
NACO Artistic Administrator, Daphne Burt
James Gaffigan and Beethoven Symphony no. 1
NACOcast LIVE! The Violin and The Voice
"Figuring Out Figaro"
On Hearing
"A Prophetic Conversation"
"Clown of the Orchestra"
Andrew Litton (encore)
NAC Orchestra 2008/09 Season Preview
Strauss Oboe Concerto with Charles Hamann
Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto with Jon Kimura Parker
The World Orchestra for Peace
NACOcast Live with Pinchas Zukerman and Measha Brueggergosman
Beethoven Symphony No. 2
The National Orchestral Institute
NACO's Institute for Orchestral Studies
NACOcast Live with Gary Kulesha (2/2)
NACOcast Live with Gary Kulesha (1/2)
James Ehnes
Oliver Knussen
"Sliding Angels"
Gustavo Dudamel
Andrew Litton
A "Messiah" Digest
Charles "Chip" Hamann
The Canadian Brass
"The Protean Tuba"
"Hungarian Celebration"
Joel Quarrington
Brahms
"It's a Living"
Patinka Kopec
Maestro Mario Bernardi and concertmaster Walter Prystawski
Jack Everly
Pinchas Zukerman (Pt.2)
Pinchas Zukerman (Pt.1)
Eric Friesen
Do we need Conductors?
On Music and Pain
Boris Brott
Jessica Linnebach
Ty Paterson
Stravinski's Pulcinella Suite and Brahm's Piano concerto No. 2
Michael Torke
Laurence Ewashko
Karen Donnelly and the music of Hayley Westenra
Antonín Dvořák