On this programme
Sakari Oramo
In conversation with Tom, Sakari Oramo tells the remarkable story of English composer John Foulds, a pioneering man who fused Indian and Western musical traditions in the early 1900s, long before the concept of 'crossover' had even been invented. Conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Oramo has just recorded a CD of some of Foulds' most important works, including the visionary and radical Three Mantras.
Sakari Oramo's John Foulds CD is available on Warner Classics.
You can hear Sakari Oramo in concert with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Performance on 3 on Tuesday 26th October conducting a programme of Mozart and Mahler.
New jazz venue at Lincoln Center, New York
This week heralded the grand opening of a new jazz facility at the Lincoln Center in New York, the Frederick P. Rose Hall. The guiding spirit behind the project and the artistic director, is jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, whose historical vision of jazz has been incredibly influential. Tom asks Gary Giddins, jazz critic and writer, what the significance of this new institution is for the New York jazz scene.
For more information on the Lincoln Jazz Center, visit their website.
RAM Manson Ensemble / New Juilliard Ensemble Collaboration
BBC News correspondent Damian Fowler reports from New York on a unique project that links composers from the Juilliard School in New York with the Royal Academy of Music in London. Inspired by Webern's Op.24 concerto, six new pieces have been composed, 3 each from America and the UK, and these will be premiered on both sides of the Atlantic.
You can hear the British premiere of these works on Friday 29th October in the Duke's Hall of the Royal Academy of Music.
Music Listening
Concert etiquette at classical music performances is a matter of keeping quiet and switching the mobile off. However, it has not always been this way. In the 18th Century, a concert by Mozart or CPE Bach was more like a jazz gig. Tom talks to Matthew Riley, author of a new book, Music Listening in the German Enlightenment, about how music listening has changed over the centuries. The composers Steve Martland and Michael Berkeley join Tom in the studio to discuss current attitudes to music listening.
Matthew Riley: Music Listening in the German Enlightenment, pub. Ashgate, £47.50.
English National Opera Ring cycle
The third part of Wagner's Ring cycle, Siegfried, is about to open at London's Coliseum in the English National Opera's new production. Tom went to the Coliseum to talk with the director Phyllida Lloyd and the conductor Paul Daniel about the challenge of staging the Ring in a controversial interpretation focussing more on family relationships than gods and monsters.
You can see English National Opera's new production of Siegfried at the Coliseum in London from 6th November.
