In Episode 6 of The Classic! Pod, we’re having a good ol' fashioned MTD.This week, we look back at our own musical journeys: childhood music exams, terrifying adjudicators, sight-singing nightmares,…
The classical music quiz is back – and somehow it gets even more unhinged.This week: Saint-Saëns hiding Carnival of the Animals because it was too frivolous, Berlioz designing an orchestra of more…
We test each other on some of classical music history’s strangest stories. Why did Haydn make his orchestra walk off stage one by one? What happened when Beethoven’s hero Napoleon declared himself…
In this episode, we catch up on a chaotic few weeks of music, travel and opera: Glyndebourne black tie etiquette, Waitrose picky bits, Zürich Opera House, Wagner’s Swiss exile, German churches with…
Who were the musicians, performers and teachers who first opened the door to classical music? In this episode of Classic! Pod, Alex Maxted and Jonny Whiting talk musical idols in the broadest possible…
In episode 4 of The Classic! Pod, we ask whether people are really “classical music novices” — or whether classical music is already everywhere, quietly sneaking into films, adverts, TV shows, video…
In episode 3 of The Classic! Pod, we’re talking about new music: what it is, why people are sometimes scared of it, and why “modern” classical music somehow still often means Schoenberg — despite the…
In episode 2 of The Classic Podcast, we’re getting into our classical music hot takes — the opinions that might get us disinvited from polite concert conversation. We talk about staged overtures,…
Welcome to the very first episode of The Classic Pod. We’re Jonathan and Alex, and in this episode we’re introducing ourselves, explaining why we started the podcast, and getting into the strange,…
