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The New Arts Desk Radio Show 3

joe Muggs Friday, 04 April 2014

Yes, Peter and Joe are back, with a humdinger of a show this time, once again recorded in the insalubrious but highly conducive surrounds of Hoxton's MeatMISSION burger bar.

Their continued...

The New Arts Desk Radio Show 2

theartsdesk Sunday, 09 March 2014

Welcome to the second of our new shows, brought to you in conjunction with MEATtransMISSION.

In this edition, originally recorded and broadcast on Valentine's weekend, Peter Culshaw and Joe...

The Arts Desk Radio Show Returns

joe Muggs Saturday, 22 February 2014

And so after a long hiatus, The Arts Desk Radio Show is back on a new platform, the fabulous MEATTransMISSION radio station out of Hoxton, and a new regular monthly slot, but the same blend of...

The Seckerson Tapes: Violinist Linus Roth

Edward Seckerson Sunday, 16 February 2014

The Polish composer Miecyzlaw Weinberg - his Holocaust opera The Passenger caused quite a stir in David Pountney’s premiere staging - has a new champion. The talented young German...

The Seckerson Tapes: Reclaiming a Mozart concerto

Edward Seckerson Sunday, 09 February 2014

In Leopold Mozart’s old house (now a museum) in the Bavarian city of Augsburg a piano tuner is hard at work tuning one of the working exhibits - a venerable clavichord. Enter Reinhard Goebel and...

The Seckerson Tapes: American Psycho

Edward Seckerson Saturday, 23 November 2013

In the season of goodwill a new musical based on Bret Easton Ellis’ notorious novel American Psycho might earn itself the subtitle “NOT the Christmas Show” - but when the composer is...

The Seckerson Tapes: Conductor Gianluca Marcianò

Edward Seckerson Sunday, 20 October 2013

Bowing in at the London Coliseum for the latest revival of Anthony Minghella’s sumptuous staging of Puccini’s Madam Butterfly, conductor Gianluca Marcianò is fast building a reputation as...

The Seckerson Tapes: Fidelio in Bergen

Edward Seckerson Sunday, 06 October 2013

In the listening room of Grieg Hall, Bergen, a concert hall sometimes masquerading as a theatre and vice versa, I talk to Mary Miller, director of Bergen National Opera, and Andrew Litton, music...

The Seckerson Tapes: Benjamin Wallfisch

Edward Seckerson Sunday, 23 June 2013

Benjamin Wallfisch was born into an extraordinarily musical family. His father Raphael Wallfisch is a cellist of international repute and his grandmother Anita Lasker-Wallfisch would not be alive...

The Seckerson Tapes: Lucy Schaufer

Edward Seckerson Saturday, 04 May 2013

Lucy Schaufer has always been one to confound our expectations. As she puts it herself, she’s “an American in London, conceived within the American Dream and living in the Old World.” As an...