You might have noticed things have been a little quiet on the Barbican Classical Music podcast... We will soon be retiring this podcast and invite you to subscribe to the new and improved weekly Barbican podcast, Nothing Concrete, where you'll be able to find everything you love about the Barbican in one place.  Listen to a teaser of what's coming up on Nothing Concrete including Josie Long who will be presenting a new series, Sound Unbound, with guests including composer Steve Reich, director Ken Loach, comedian Jayde Adams and Ballet Black's Cassa Pancho.  Subscribe to Nothing Concrete ..read more

In this five-part mini-series we explore the life, times and work of some of classical music’s greatest composers. In the final episode, host Edward Seckerson is joined by BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Sakari Oramo to discuss his fellow countryman Jean Sibelius, and the themes of nature and Finnish national identity woven throughout his music ..read more

In this five-part mini-series we explore the life, times and work of some of classical music’s greatest composers.In episode four, host Edward Seckerson is joined by violinist, composer, and Australian Chamber Orchestra artistic director Richard Tognetti to discuss the genius, larger than life character, and prodigious talent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ..read more

In this five-part mini-series we explore the life, times and work of some of classical music’s greatest composers. In episode three, host Edward Seckerson is joined by conductor and pianist Sir Antonio Pappano to discuss Gustav Mahler, whose extreme, powerful and raw symphonic writing stretches both conductors and orchestras to their limits ..read more

In this five-part mini-series we explore the life, times and work of some of classical music’s greatest composers. In episode two, host Edward Seckerson is joined by baritone and composer Roderick Williams to discuss Benjamin Britten, a complex and often contradictory character, and one of the 20th century’s greatest opera composers ..read more

In a five-part mini-series we explore the life, times and work of some of classical music’s greatest composers. In episode one, host Edward Seckerson is joined by countertenor Iestyn Davies to discuss George Frideric Handel, the German-born composer whose prolific portfolio of operas and hits such as the Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks, and Messiah, won the hearts of the British public ..read more

Jeremy Denk talks to Edward Seckerson about the arts of practicing, programme-building, recording, writing and performing, as we find out what makes the innovative pianist tick ..read more

Edward Seckerson would happily describe himself as a Bernstein fanatic, conducting one of the last major interviews with his idol before his death in October 1990. Here he shares why the American icon remains a never-ending source of fascination ..read more

'This music is buzzing with intergalactic messages and surrealism…’ We speak to the inimitable director about the apocalyptic anti-anti-opera ahead of his production at the Barbican with the LSO and Sir Simon Rattle ..read more

‘The whole piece is about me being put to the test…’ The violinist Leila Josefowicz talks about Scheherazade.2 – the piece written for her by John Adams – and her life as a musician, ahead of her performance of ‘S.2’ with the LSO next month ..read more