Podcast Series: 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)