Podcasts
Reliving the event
Jon Tolansky reviews and compares recordings in the Music Preserved of various works with experts.
Remastering old recordings
The tapes in Music Preserved's collection date back many decades and were often made in less than ideal circumstances, mostly off-air. How to make these recordings more presentable to modern listeners?
Sir Charles Mackerras - A Centenary Celebration
Music Preserved (MP) commemorates the great and internationally acclaimed conductor Sir
Charles Mackerras at his centenary with two podcasts drawing on live performance
recordings exclusively housed in the MP Charles Mackerras Collection. They are presented
by Sir Charles’s biographer the distinguished author, scholar and broadcaster Nigel Simeone
in discussion with the admired conductor and writer Thomas Higgins, who, after playing as
an oboist under Sir Charles’s baton for many years, subsequently collaborated closely with
him in the reconstruction of Sullivan’s presumed lost Cello Concerto. There are also
interview clips with Sir Charles, provided by the podcast producer Jon Tolansky.
(Image courtesy of the Charles Mackerras Archive)
The Covent Garden Opera - the evolution of greatness
Jon Tolansky explores the development of the Covent Garden Opera from its foundation by David Webster in 1946 through to 1961, when Georg Solti took over as Music Director.