NACOcast: A Classical Music Podcast
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NACOcast: A Classical Music Podcast
Explore the world of classical music with members of Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra and special guests.
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A musical love triangle: Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.
NAC Orchestra Music Director Alexander Shelley talks with uOttawa Professor and Clara Schumann expert Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers about the Orchestra'...
Celebrating the NAC Orchestra’s 50th anniversary season
In this episode of the NACOcast NAC Orchestra violinist Carissa Klopoushak interviews two founding violinists, Karoly Sziladi and Elaine Klimasko. The...
Rachel Mercer: NAC Orchestra Principal Cellist
An advocate for Canadian music, Principal Cellist Rachel Mercer speaks with Sean Rice about her activities in and beyond the National Arts Centre Orch...
Peter Oundjian on his career in music
In this archival episode of the NACOcast host Sean Rice, NAC Orchestra’s 2nd clarinetist, speaks with conductor Peter Oundjian weeks before his retir...
Carrefour Composer Remy Siu
In this episode of the NACOcast host Sean Rice (Second clarinet, NAC Orchestra) speaks with Remy Siu Carrefour Composer (2017-2019) about his early in...
Carrefour Composer Ian Cusson
Sean Rice, NAC Orchestra 2nd clarinet, talks with Toronto-based Carrefour* Composer Ian Cusson. They talk about R. Murray Schaffer, Bulgarian women’s...
Paul Wells interviews Howard Shore
Journalist and author Paul Wells has a fascinating conversation with composer Howard Shore about his passion for music making and acclaimed career as...
Timo Andres
In this archival episode from 2016, NACOcast host Sean Rice connects with composer and pianist Timo Andres whose works were performed by members of th...
Elim Chan
Host Sean Rice speaks with conductor Elim Chan who made her NAC main series debut in the 18-19 season. A past fellow in the NAC Orchestra’s Conductor’...
Blake Pouliot
Sean Rice, NAC Orchestra’s 2nd clarinetist, chats with Canadian violinist Blake Pouliot. At age fourteen Blake attended the NAC’s Young Artist Program...
NAC Orchestra 50th Anniversary European Tour
In this episode of the NACOcast Sean Rice speaks with NAC Music Director Alexander Shelley. On the occasion of its 50th Anniversary, the National Arts...
Vivian Fung
Sean Rice, NAC Orchestra’s 2nd clarinetist, chats with JUNO Award-winning composer Vivian Fung on the occasion of NACO’s performance of her compositio...
Yosuke Kawasaki and Jessica Linnebach
The NAC Orchestra’s Concertmaster Yosuke Kawasaki and Associate Concertmaster Jessica Linnebach speak with second clarinetist Sean Rice about their li...
Charles Hamann speaks with the students of the 2018 Young Artists Program
December marks the start of the application process for the NAC’s annual Young Artist Program (Y.A.P). To highlight this wonderful training program, C...
Shostakovich’s Violin Concert No1 and Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No3
Kelly Rice, Director of Development and Lars Lih, Musicologist from McGill’s Schulich School of Music visited the NAC in January 2018 to hear John Sto...
Jessica Holmes
Sean Rice, second clarinetist of the NAC Orchestra, and Jessica Holmes, Postdoctoral Scholar of Musicology, University of California at Los Angeles (U...
Doo Wop Project and Jack Everly
Sean Rice talks with NACO Principal Pops conductor Jack Everly about his perspectives on music and upcoming NAC Orchestra Pops concerts. Find out some...
Beethoven's Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Symphonies
Sean Rice, NAC Orchestra’s 2nd clarinetist, and NAC Music Director Alexander Shelley complete their three-episode series on Beethoven’s nine symphonie...
Beethoven's Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Symphonies
Sean Rice and Alexander Shelley continue their three-episode series about the Beethoven Symphonies on the occasion of the NAC Orchestra’s Festival Foc...
Beethoven's First Three Symphonies
Sean Rice, 2nd clarinetist of the NAC Orchestra, and Alexander Shelley, NAC Music Director, discuss Ludwig van Beethoven’s first three symphonies, put...
Karina Canellakis
Karina Canellakis is the newly appointed Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in
Amsterdam, beginning in the 1...
The Man with the Violin
“Every time a child passed through the station, the child wanted to stop, and every time, the adult with them pulled them along on their way.” Sean Ri...
Natasha Gauthier with Alice Sara Ott and Eivind Gullberg Jensen
Natasha Gauthier of Artsfile.ca interviews pianist Alice Sara Ott and conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen who performed the Grieg Piano Concerto together...
Institute for Orchestral Studies
Sean Rice, second clarinetist of the NAC Orchestra, interviews the five apprentices who participated in the NAC's annual Institute for Orchestral Stud...
Joana Carneiro, NACO and the Tanztheater Wuppertal – Pina Bausch dance company
Portuguese conductor Joana Carneiro, a well-travelled artist, talks with Sean Rice about her first time with the Pina Bausch dance company and with th...
Chip Hamann's new CD, Canadian Works for Oboe & Piano
Sean Rice interviewed the NAC Orchestra’s principal oboe Chip Hamann about his new album, a two-disc album that was released in June 2017. It was the...
Robert Chafe, lyricist for "Heirloom" co-produced with Larysa Kuzmenko
Robert Chafe is a 2010 Governor General Award recipient for his play, Afterimage. His extensive body of work also includes such plays as Place of Fir...
Joel Quarrington and his new album: Schubert "An Die Musik"
Principal Bassist, Joel Quarrington, joins us to talk about his brand new solo album, Schubert: An die Musik, that he recorded with Canadian pianist,...
Ideas of North
Maestro Alexander Shelley shares his thoughts on the National Arts Centre Orchestra's 2017-18 opening festival of music, Ideas of North - featuring an...
ENCOUNT3RS - Creation and Colaboration
In this bilingual panel discussion on Creation and Collaboration that preceded the world premiere of ENCOUNT3RS (April 20-22, 2017), animator Catherin...
Soul Stirring Music
Sean Rice and Alexander Shelley talk about the "Soul Stirring Music" coming up in the 2017-2018 season of the NAC Orchestra.
"I am full of antic...
A Night of Classical Collisions #TheKiss
In celebration of Beethoven and Schumann – two highly expressive and innovative composers, the NAC Orchestra created an eclectic evening of music, dan...
Joel Quarrington and Peter Paul Koprowski's Concertante for Double Bass, Strings and Percussion
November 16 & 17 was the world-premiere of Peter Paul Koprowski's Concertante for Double Bass, Strings and Percussion, written for and performed by th...
Canadian Brass
Did you know the Canadian Brass shares founding members with the National Arts Centre Orchestra!? Join Sean Rice in a conversation about the history a...
Is Classical Music Really Dead?
The death knell for classical music has been ringing for decades.
Yet many say the music is not only alive, it’s kicking!
Join us...
Sean Rice chats with Nadia Sirota before the Canadian premiere of Nico Muhly’s Electrifying Viola Concerto
Vanguards of the New York indie classical scene, composer Nico Muhly and violist Nadia Sirota embody the meaning of "classical reincarnated" in an ele...
Exploring the works of Richard Strauss with Alexander Shelley
Nick talks to Alexander Shelley about his plan to perform, over the next several seasons, the works of one of his favourite composers, Richard Strauss...
Sean Rice takes you inside the music of the All-Canadian Wolfgang Session Number 5
Sean Rice is back with another special “all-Canadian WolfGANG” edition of the NACOcast! This time, Sean interviews Canadian composer Andrew Staniland...
Humour in Music
Looking at the lighter side of the classics, with selections from Mozart, Rossini and others. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf appears for the first time on the...
Special Edition: Sean Rice, 2nd clarinetist with the NAC orchestra, interviews Bryce Dessner
Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 5
Analia Lludgar: Luz for violin and cello
Johannes Maria Staud: Black Moo...