The Early Music Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
10. Nature and humanism | Jurgen De Bruyn
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this last episode, Darina meets the artistic director of the Zefiro Torna ensemble, Jurgen De Bruyn, to discuss the shift towards ecological awar...
9. Drawing inspiration from influential women of the past | Laura Granero, Hannah Ely and Aino Peltomma
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Darina talks to three female guests, Laura Granero, Hannah Ely and Aino Peltomma, who share their views on diversity in their count...
8. Institution in transition | Teunis van der Zwart
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the director of the early music department at the Royal Conservatory The Hague, Teunis van der Zwart, we discuss the challenges of making a con...
7. Gender equality in early music l Lila Hajosi
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do we tackle gender equality issues in our sector? How do we deal with problematic texts of music works? Lila Hajosi, director of Ensemble Irini...
6. Early Music America's diversity initiatives | Karin Cuéllar Rendón
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is devoted to a guest straight from America: Karin Cuéllar Rendón, from the Early Music America network, historic Bolivian violinist,...
5. MA Festival Brugge: the new approach | Jan Van den Borre
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jan Van den Borre, artistic director of MA Festival Brugge, presents his approach to programming one of the oldest early music fest...
4. Baroque theatre in all its diversity l Anna Karinsdotter
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Karinsdotter, managing director of Drottningholm Theatre in Sweden, shares in this episode the strategies used by the Theatre to be more effect...
3. EEEmerging strategies of transition | Isabelle Battioni
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is devoted to the EEEmerging programme and its lasting change, openness to mental health issues and the mid-career diversion of profess...
2. Queer theater with historical connotations | Michael Hell, Thomas Höft and Georg Krones
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we're off to discover the traditions of historical queer theatre and the problem of ‘ideological’ traditionalist practices in m...
1. Young festival in transition | Jorge Losana
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode, Darina shares a discussion with the artistic director of the ECOS festival and director of the Cantoría vocal ensemble, Jorg...
10. Impressions from the Early Music Summit
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome to the last special episode of the 4th season of the Early Music Podcast, dedicated to the impressions shared by the participants ...
9. EarlyMuse: Find your jig partner in a Research Lab | Rebekah Ahrendt
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a branch of music where research plays such a central role, how can there be such a disconnection between research and performance? How can we cr...
8. Give a guidonian hand to the audience | Isaac Alonso de Molina
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How early music can be specific in its approach to new audiences? How are conservatoires tackling this issue? Isaac Alonso de Molina shares his view...
7. Diversity: For more polyphony in the sector! | Reginald Mobley
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the situation of inclusion in the Early Music sector? In this episode, countertenor Reginald Mobley puts the issues of race, gender, and mo...
6. Recording: Think outside the CD box | Hannelore Guittet
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the current situation of recordings in Early Music? How can we innovate in a sector that has undergone such change in recent years? Listen ...
5. Research: Terra incognita or land of new emotions? | Tiago Simas Freire
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Tiago Simas Freire discusses how research is also a means of connecting the past with present emotions. More than historically info...
4. Recycle and reuse : The ultimate creativity | Raphaël Pichon
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do we create and innovate in early music today? How do we reappropriate music that has been played thousands of times? Raphaël Pichon puts hone...
3. Meet an agent: Become an artist? | Clementine Richard
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What role do agents play in promoting early music? How can they help the sector evolve? Management, digitization, new expectations, news skills... C...
2. Defining early music: I'd rather change Continents | Romina Lischka
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the scope of early music? This unanswerable question impacts our practices and our approaches to the sector. Since reaching a common defini...
1. Sight-reading European policies | Rarita Zbranca
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can Europe contribute to strenghten the early music scene? How can cultural policies be regulated at European level when culture is so specific ...
10. Suor Maria Celeste | Laurie Stras
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Does music get suddenly better when it’s linked to the Borgia family, or are we ok with anonymously composed pieces?In this final episode of the s...
9. Clara Wieck-Schumann | Natasha Loges
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Probably a XIXth century woman couldn’t contribute significantly as an artist, composer or concert organizer, right?And if we apply the critical e...
8. Guillaume de Machaut | Björn Schmelzer
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How are you an artist when you are just following a tradition and reading a score?With this eighth episode, Björn Schmelzer takes us on a journey o...
7. Henry Purcell | Errollyn Wallen
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How could we possibly top the perfection that is a masterpiece like Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas?In this seventh episode, composer Errollyn Wallen ...
6. Hildegard von Bingen | Benjamin Bagby
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is so fascinating about some medieval nun’s songs?Better known for her important work as a naturalist and physician, Abbess Hildegard von Bin...
5. Ludwig van Beethoven | Olga Pashchenko
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t you sometimes wish you could just ask Beethoven what he meant in that peculiar passage?This fifth episode is devoted to one of the most famo...
4. Guillaume Dufay | Catalina Vicens
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why do you care so much about what sort of keyboard Johan Sebastian Bach used to play on?This fourth episode is devoted to the fifteenth-century Fle...
3. Claudio Monteverdi | Tim Carter
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a piece by Monteverdi finds its way to its original concert hall?In the third episode of season 3 of the Early Music Podcast, Tim ...
2. Girolamo Frescobaldi | Francesco Corti
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why can’t you just read the score that you want to perform?Dedicated to the Italian genius composer Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), this episode...
1. Introduction | Andrew Burn
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is so special about Early Music that it makes people so passionate about it?What is it like to “rediscover” today a composer from 1000 year...
FRENCH SUMMER EPISODES: ACCORD MAJEUR
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Early Music Podcast takes you to Aix en Provence, on the occasion of the Rencontres Nationales d’Accord Majeur, for our last F...
UN CHEMIN JOYEUX - TRANSITION ET VIVANT
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Depuis quelques années, les préoccupations de transition sociale et écologique sont au premier plan des questions politiques et sociales ainsi qu...
VERSAILLES, 300 ANS DE SPECTACLES 8 MILLIONS DE VISITEURS
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cet épisode du Early Music Podcast fait suite à notre conférence REMAin Connected du 21 mai sur le tourisme culturel. Monument incontournable du ...
LOST AND FOUND: TRADITIONAL AND EARLY MUSIC IN IRELAND
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ireland is known for many things but one thing that keeps fascinating people all around the world is its culture and its traditional music that perv...
EVERYONE DESERVES THE BEST PERFORMANCE: THE ART OF BRINGING ART TO THE PUBLIC
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When creating projects and programming concerts, concert organisers should always be aiming at satisfying their audiences’ needs or desires. But i...
WHY DO THEY KEEP COMING: CRACKING THE AUDIENCE SECRET
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For several years, museums have developed specific audience management strategies. In this episode, we will see how they can be applied to the Early...
PERFORMERS AND MUSICOLOGISTS: YOU CAN DO IT!
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are very proud to welcome Margaret Bent as one of our keynote speakers for the Early Music Summit, our 100% online event. So proud that we are ac...
OUR FUTURE SUMMIT: A GLIMPSE INTO THE PROGRAMME
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode will give an overview of the Early Music Summit that will take place from 20 to 22 November 2020 in BOZAR, Brussels on the occasion of ...
THE END OF EARLY MUSIC: POSTPONED
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The End of Early music is at the same time the title of the book published by Bruce Haynes in 2007, the title of a symposium organize...
READ THE BOOK: FROM THE LIBRARY SHELF TO THE CONCERT HALL
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Early Music is all about how we deal with our heritage. After an episode where we followed the path that goes from the music instruments kept in mus...
OFF THE RECORD: THE STORY BEHIND YOUR EARLY MUSIC CDS
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
CD recording has undergone major changes in the last few years, due, obviously, to the arrival of digital opportunities for distribution, and n...
BORN UNDER CHARLEMAGNE: HOW EUROPE MAKES EARLY MUSIC
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Which came first, Early Music or Europe? Whenever you choose a start date for Early Music, you will probably pick a period during whi...
LEARN AND BECOME: TEACHING THE NEXT GENERATION OF PERFORMERS
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to study in the Early Music department of a prestigious conservatory? What would be different in a school designed to focus o...
CONCERT 2.0: BACH TO THE FUTURE
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Early Music performances, just like any music performances, come with certain rules and traditions: you will most probably sit in a darkened room an...
MUSEUMS, PERFORMERS, INSTRUMENT MAKERS: A LOVE TRIANGLE?
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Interviews with Thierry Maniguet – Head of the curatorial team of Musée de la Musique -ParisEmanuele Marconi – Director of Musée des Instrumen...
GREAT EXPECTATIONS: BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE CAREER IN EARLY MUSIC
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Interviews with Jonathan Cohen - cellist and director of ArcangeloDaniel Bizeray – Director of Ambronay and founder of the Eeemerging programmeJon...
EARLY MUSIC: BERNARD FOCCROULLE TELLS YOU WHY
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Bernard Foccroulle, organist, composer, former director of Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, founder of...