These podcasts will tell you all about Sinfonia's concerts. You'll learn about the pieces that the orchestra are playing, and also about the soloists. Often, Conductor Neill Mantle has tales to tell about the composer or the first performance and occasionally you get to listen in on a rehearsal. All podcasts are produced by Woods Noble Media and introduced by Alison Hutcheson. Just click on the links below
Sinfonia conductor, Neil Mantle, talks about the upcoming concert in Greyfriars Kirk featuring two works each from Wolfgang Mozart and Richard Strauss.The podcast is produced by Woods Noble Media and the interviewer is Alison Hutcheson
A chance for you to hear a wee taste of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, as soloist Roddy Long talks and plays a little too. In the concert, on June the 6th, you'll get some Brahms and Beethoven, from the orchestra as well.The podcast is produced by Woods Noble Media and the interviewer is Alison Hutcheson
You have a chance to hear Elgar's great work, The Dream of Gerontius, performed by the Edinburgh Bach Choir, Jubilo and Scottish Sinfonia in Edinburgh's Usher Hall on February the 28th 2010. The soloists are Mark Wilde (Tenor), Colette Ruddy (Mezzo soprano), Michael Bundy (Bass) and Morley Whitehead (Organ). In this podcast conductor Neil Mantle talks about the piece, it's performances and about meeting Elgar's Godson. The podcast is produced by Woods Noble Media and the interviewer is Alison Hutcheson
In this podcast we hear from Barbara Barbara Misiewicz the soloist for the Elgar Cello Concerto, at Scottish Sinfonia's next concert on Sunday November the 22nd in Edinburgh's Greyfriars Kirk. Rimsky Korsakov's Suite 'Mlada' and Rachmaninov's Symphony No.3 in A minor are also on the programme, which is conducted by Neil Mantle. We find out what brought how Barbara came to play the cello, why she's studying in Glasgow and also about Elgar's famous concerto.
It's Edinburgh Festival time again and so it's time for Scottish Sinfonia's traditional Fringe concert on Sunday the 30th of August in Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh at 7.30pm. This year there are two helpings of Mozart and two of Wagner namely the Symphony No. 34 in C and the Horn Concerto No. 3 in E flat by the former and excerpts from Gotterdammerung and the Suite from Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg by the latter. Hugh Seenan is the French Horn soloist and fellow horn player and Sinfonia conductor Neil Mantle talks about the pieces and the soloist.
The orchestra is playing a beautiful and lyrical set of pieces for their next concert on November 23rd 2008 in Greyfriars Kirk. First it's Wagner's Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin, the Dvorak Cello Concerto in B minor with the Glasgow based soloist Donald Gillan and finishing up with Brahms Symphony No 2 in D major. Here conductor Neil Mantle talks about the links between the composers and points to a few things to listen for.
Scottish Sinfonia is back for the Edinburgh Fringe with an all Russian programme at Greyfriars Kirk on Sunday the 24th of August 2008. They are playing Stravinsky's Suite 'The Firebird, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 4 (soloist Alastair Beatson) and Shostakovitch's Symphony No. 12 'In The Year 1917' In this podcast conductor Neil Mantle explains some of the background of the pieces.
Scottish Sinfonia joins forces with the Edinburgh Bach Choir for a performance of Handel's Messiah on Sunday the 16th of March in Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh. The soloists are Alison Beck, Sharon Jacobsen, Adam Magee and Michael Bundy. Neil Mantle is the conductor of both the orchestra and choir and here tells us a little more about this work.
Scottish Sinfonia's next concerts is in Greyfriar's Kirk, Edinburgh on Sunday February the 3rd. The programme is Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, Brahms Double Concerto in A minor with soloists: Claire Sterling and Robin Michael and Beethoven's
Symphony No3 in E-flat "Eroica" In this interview, conductor Neil Mantle talks about the programme and the soloists and at the end we sneak a wee listen at the first rehearsal.
Scottish Sinfonia's next concerts are at St Michael's Parish Church, Linlithgow on Nov 17th and Greyfriar's Kirk, Edinburgh on Nov 18th 2007. The programme is Weber: Overture 'Der Freischutz', Mozart: Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat (soloist Anthony Halstead) and Bruckner: Symphony No.4 in E flat 'Romantic' In this interview, conductor Neil Mantle talks about the programme and the soloist.
