Tchaikovsky

On this episode of Talking History, Patrick Geoghegan looks at the political life and legacy of Charles Haughey with Vincent Browne, Journalist and author of Charles Haughey: Glory, Greed and Guns. Patrick will also be joined by Stephen Collins, columnist with and former politica ...  Show more

On this episode of Talking History, Patrick Geoghegan will be speaking to the Taoiseach Micheál Martin about the importance of history, and how it has shaped him as a politician.In part two, Patrick looks at the history of the ghost story with Darryl Jones, Professor of Modern Br ...  Show more

Samira celebrates the music and life of Sergei Rachmaninoff. With pianist Kirill Gerstein, who has released a new recording of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic, Marina Frolova-Walker, Professor of Music at Cambridge, pianist Lucy Parham, who has c ...  Show more

YES THAT'S RIGHT we have RETURNED with another darntootlingly informative episode of That Classical Podcast. The 60-second bios are back with a vengeance, and this time it's all about Russians and also about sensual frappuccinos and asparagus. More on that later. Enjoy! Music fea ...  Show more

The latest in our series of composer podcasts focusses on Dmitri Shostakovich. Edward Seckerson joins Gramophone Editor Martin Cullingford to share his insights with us into one of the greatest of 20th-century musical figures, with a particular focus on his extraordinary symphoni ...  Show more