Steven Osborne, James Rhodes, Michael Kennedy, Music Hubs
Petroc Trelawny presents a live edition with guests including pianists Steven Osborne and James Rhodes. Plus Michael Kennedy discussing Richard Strauss 150 years after his birth.
Petroc Trelawny presents a live edition with guests including pianists Steven Osborne and James Rhodes. Richard Strauss biographer Michael Kennedy reassesses the man and his music 150 years after his birth and we take the temperature of the government's music education policy in the wake of Ofsted's report on Music Hubs.
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"I hate the phrase 'Classical Music'. Let’s call it music."
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Michael Kennedy on Richard Strauss
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Steven Osborne
As part of Wigmore Hall’s upcoming Tippett: A Retrospective season the pianist Steven Osborne will be performing the composer’s 2nd, 3rd and 4th piano sonatas. Petroc Trelawny speaks to Osborne about his thoughts on Tippett’s piano writing, the link between Beethoven and Tippett and asks whether these sonatas are in fact undervalued masterpieces?
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Music Education
Just before Christmas Ofsted issued a report on how the Music Hubs, which were set up to provide music education in schools in England, have been performing a year down the line. The report concluded that not all Music Hubs are doing their job properly: “A quality music education only reaches a minority of pupils; despite the massive shakeup there is a lack of depth and rigour to school music in England.” Petroc is joined live in the studio by two guests to discuss the findings of the report and look at possible solutions: Helen Sprott, Director of Music at Arts Council England and Deborah Annetts, Chief Executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians.
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Strauss 150
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Richard Strauss and as the musical celebrations get under way in Manchester, Petroc meets the Strauss biographer and music critic Michael Kennedy.Ěý They discuss how the perception of Strauss has changed since Michael first started writing about music in the late 1940s.Ěý Richard Morrison, Chief Music Critic of The Times, joins Petroc to look at the wealth of musical events that are happening around the world to mark the anniversary.
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James Rhodes
The pianist James Rhodes’s story is an unusual one. He has no formal academic musical education or dedicated mentoring. The title of his debut album "Razor Blades, Little Pills and Big Pianos" hints at the suffering that dogged Rhodes's childhood and early adult life. Classical music became his solace and key to his survival. It was Bach, Beethoven and Chopin, not Faith Hope and Charity, that offered comfort. James joins Petroc to talk about his view of the classical music world today, why he treats classical concerts like rock gigs and why, as a moderniser of the concert experience, he stays away from modern music
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Petroc Trelawny |
| Interviewed Guest | Steven Osborne |
| Interviewed Guest | James Rhodes |
| Interviewed Guest | Michael Kennedy |
| Interviewed Guest | Helen Sprott |
| Interviewed Guest | Deborah Annetts |
| Interviewed Guest | Richard Morrison |
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