CBSO Podcast - September 2008

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Michael Collins, one of the world’s most in-demand clarinettists, talks about the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, which he is playing with the CBSO in October

Michael talks about how the piece still presents a challenge technically, how he got to study Mozart’s original manuscript of the piece, and about his work with living composers, especially John Adams, who’s phenomenally tricky concerto for Michael arrived by fax only 2 days before the premiere!.
Listen to the interview with Michael Collins here

In a new monthly feature, the critic and writer Fiona Maddocks casts her eye across the CBSO brochure and picks her favourite concert from each month. For September, she’s looking forward to some Rachmaninov.

And Stephen Johnson talks about the composer Kurt Weill and his most famous work, The Threepenny Opera, ahead of a performance of the suite from the opera on 8th October

Competition

Congratulations to Katharine Butterworth, who wins a pair of tickets to see the opening concert of the season on 17^th September at Symphony Hall in Birmingham. Katherine answered correctly that Andris Nelsons started his career as a TRUMPETER in the Latvian National Opera Orchestra. Thanks for all your entries. If you can’t be there in person on the 17^th, don’t worry – BBC Radio 3 is broadcasting the concert!