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Joanna MacGregor, photograph by Peter Williams

Welcome to SinfoniaCast. Britten Sinfonia's podcast series brings you opportunities to look behind the scenes at highlights from our recent and forthcoming productions. If there are any artists you'd like to see featured in future, get in touch. 

Latest SinfoniaCast

To mark the release of our new CD with Joanna MacGregor, 'Live in Buenos Aires', we bring you a vidcast featuring exclusive extracts from the album, photos from recent tours to South America, and a fascinating interview with Joanna. She talks about how she finds working with an orchestra with no permanent artistic director, why she is intrigued by the lives of composers whose work she plays, and how she sees the future of music.

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Live in Buenos Aires will be available on general release from 22 February 2010, and is also available to buy at most of our concerts.

Pre-concert talks

Our pre-concert talks are a perfect accompaniment to the concert experience - an opportunity to get to know composers and soloists a little better, as well as to find out more about the music that they will be performing. However, we know that not everyone can make it to these, and we've therefore started to record all of our talks at Norwich Theatre Royal. Perfect listening if you've been to one of our concerts and want to find out more!

• Britten in America (February 2010). In a lively discussion, Kate Kennedy talks to Nico Muhly, Mark Padmore and Pekka Kuusisto about word-setting, the joys and responsibilities of being a young musician in the internet age, and their earliest musical experiences.
• Dialogues (November 2009). Bob interviews Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich, who discuss why the listener shouldn't feel left out when it comes to Elliott Carter's music.
• Eight Seasons (October 2009). Bob Shingleton interviews Tom Gould about violins, seasons and what it takes to get a Canadian audience to their feet.

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Previous SinfoniaCasts

• Download SinfoniaCast12 Singers Allan Clayton, Andrew Foster-Williams and Julia Doyle discuss what Handel's Messiah means to them during rehearsals for the recording of our recent CD release with Hyperion.
• Download SinfoniaCast11 James Macmillan shares his insights into the fascinating story behind his opera, Parthenogenesis. Featuring clips from Britten Sinfonia's premiere performance (reproduced with permission of BBC Radio 3 and Boosey & Hawkes).
• Download SinfoniaCast10 A special feature on the Creative Learning project Fen Soundscapes. Listen to the final performance of the project here. You can also watch a video (you will need Quick Time installed to view it) here.
• Download SinfoniaCast09 Charlotte Bray and Colin Matthews introducing Britten Sinfonia's 2008-09 lunchtime concert series.
• Download SinfoniaCast08 Mark Padmore and Kate Kennedy discussing poetry in music. See concert details for Night Music with Mark Padmore.
• Download SinfoniaCast07 An interview with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who directed concerts for us in summer 2008 and autumn 2009.
• Download SinfoniaCast06 A recording of our Insight into Stravinsky event. John Hopkins and Ryan Wigglesworth discuss Stravinsky and neo-classicism.
• Download SinfoniaCast05 Interviews with the young composers who took part in our 2008 Composers' Workshop, and extracts from their works. With James MacMillan and Robin Holloway.
• Download SinfoniaCast04 An interview with composer Richard Causton about his commission for the 2007-08 Britten Sinfonia at Lunch series.
• Download SinfoniaCast03 Britten Sinfonia's Chief Executive David Butcher chats with jazz legend Gil Goldstein in New York. Alternative format version for Windows Media Player here.
• Download SinfoniaCast02 Young Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova discusses Hartmann's evocative Concerto Funebre and tells Fiona Talkington about her busy career.
• Download SinfoniaCast01 In our very first podcast, Fiona Talkington talks to some of our key players about the perils and pleasures of playing without a conductor, and finds out what it is that makes the ensemble so special.

• Britten Sinfonia's Chief Executive, David Butcher, featured on ClassicFM's daily podcast back in November 2009. Click here to listen to this podcast.