NACOcast with Sean Rice

English
100 Episodes

About the podcast

Join host Sean Rice (Second Clarinet, NAC Orchestra) as he explores the world of classical music and its great composers. In this series of audio programmes you can look forward to hearing insightful commentary about upcoming NAC Orchestra programmes as well as musical excerpts and interviews with NACO musicians and guest artists.

About the host

  • Second Clarinet Sean Rice
  • Eric Friesen and Pinchas Zukerman on Elgar’s Violin Concerto

    English Nov 15, 2012 47:16

    Eric Friesen, acclaimed author, speaker and broadcaster sits down with Maestro Pinchas Zukerman to discuss playing Elgar's Violin Concerto.

  • Touring and Inuit Throat Singing in Canada’s Arctic

    English Nov 01, 2012 49:49

    In this edition of the NACOcast, founding host, Chris Millard reprises his role with the NACOcast while on tour with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Cananda’s North. Chris is...

  • The Art of Tito Schipa: A Vocal Approach to Brass Playing

    English Oct 22, 2012 34:18

    Nick's back with a brand new episode. In this edition of the NACOcast, Nick explores what brass players and singers have in common. He uses one of the great turn-of-the-century...

  • Robert Harris on “Beethoven The Revolutionary”

    English Oct 09, 2012 39:02

    Guest host Robert Harris, author and CBC host, speaks on "Beethoven The Revolutionary".

  • Paul Kennedy: “What was Beethoven thinking?”

    English Oct 01, 2012 47:34

    "Two Fifths": Paul Kennedy, host of CBC's Ideas, looks at Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto and Fifth Symphony and asks, "What was Beethoven thinking?"

  • Robert Harris on “Brahms The Progressive”

    English Sep 27, 2012 40:24

    Guest host Robert Harris, author and CBC host, speaks on "Brahms The Progressive".

  • La Bohème with Alexander Shelley

    English Sep 17, 2012 53:03

    Nick sits down with Alexander Shelley to discuss the state of opera, in particular, La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Shelley's youth and inspiration to become an opera conductor.

  • In Memoriam: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    English Sep 04, 2012 30:44

    In Memoriam: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Nick pays tribute to the great German baritone, who died earlier this year.

  • “Low Notes”

    English Jun 05, 2012 55:54

    Nick sits down with Joel Quarrington (double bass), Chris Millard (bassoon), and Jonathan Wade (timpani) to discuss the bass sections of the orchestra. They discuss the importance of the "low...

  • The Leading Note Foundation and El Sistema

    English May 24, 2012 48:11

    Nick Atkinson talks to Margaret Munro Tobolowska and Tina Fedeski about The Leading Note Foundation, a music education program in Ottawa based on Venezuela's El Sistema

  • “The English Parlour Song Revisited”

    English Apr 09, 2012 45:22

    In a program entitled, "Come into the Garden, Maud", host Nick Atkinson revisits the English parlour song.

  • “From Band to Orchestra”

    English Mar 19, 2012 54:16

    Host Nick Atkinson (tuba) talks with his NAC Orchestra colleagues Karen Donnelly (trumpet) and Doug Burden (trombone) about musicians who make the transition from bands to orchestras.

  • Chris hands off to Nick

    English Mar 03, 2012 32:56

    After more than 60 episodes over 5 seasons, NACOcast founding host, Christopher Millard officially hands over the hosting duties for the NAC's premiere podcast series to Nicholas Atkinson, NAC Orchestra...

  • Maestro Trevor Pinnock

    English Feb 29, 2012 1:04:52

    Guest host Charles "Chip" Hamann, NAC Orchestra Principal Oboe, in conversation with Maestro Trevor Pinnock, on the occasion of his latest visit to the National Arts Centre.

  • Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer on “Happiness” in music

    English Feb 02, 2012 43:38

    In contrast to his defiant First Symphony, Brahms turned to an overall feeling of cheerfulness for his Symphony No. 2, a subtle work that displays the brilliance of the master...