Taking Notes: December 2013

Joe Bates & Anthony Friend | co-founders of Filthy Lucre

Filthy Lucre is a series of music nights described as 'diverse and daring' by The Tab newspaper. For the next instalment on January 11, the Bussey Building in Peckham will provide the setting for an eclectic ritual of music principally inspired by the themes of cults and premonitions of death. The evening will begin with abstract concert music by Scelsi, before morphing into a full-on night club with dance music until 5am! In the last show of 2013, co-founders Joe and Anthony preview their event with Lloyd.

As usual, we round the show off with the news from the past fortnight.

Show outline:
00.26 Interview with Joe Bates and Anthony Friend, with music featured in Filthy Lucre 3: Cults
33.16 News:

1   British Composer Awards 2013 winners announced
2   Rattle and Berlin Phil return to London in 2015
3   Conductor tackles audience coughing head-on
4   British politician Ed Balls tinkling the ivories
5   Chailly confirmed for La Scala role

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Title Music 'Yentas Five' from A Proper Grown Up, by the Spike Orchestra

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Jonathan Freeman-Attwood | Principal, Royal Academy of Music

We know many of you will be preparing for auditions at the various conservatoires around the U.K this winter. Jonathan Freeman-Attwood - highly renowned as a trumpeter, writer, record producer and Principal of the Royal Academy of Music - joins Lloyd to give his invaluable advice to those facing an audition. They discuss everything from practical matters such as programming and dress, to the more psychological aspects of preparing for such an event. If you do have an audition of any sort coming up, then we think you'd do well to listen to their conversation!

Anna Hashimoto | clarinettist

Having made her concerto debut with the English Chamber Orchestra at the age of fifteen, Anna Hashimoto has continued to impress critics and audiences across the globe on the path to becoming one of the leading young musicians of today. She joins Lloyd to talk about her debut album, A Touch of France, recorded with pianist Daniel King-Smith which explores the repertoire for clarinet and piano from across the channel. We hear two movements from sonatas by Saint-Saëns and Poulenc, and an extract from a (slightly unusual) third piece. Anna also reflects on her studies with Michael Collins, the musical culture in her birthplace, Japan, and other areas of her musical life such as her work with the leading Atéa Wind Quintet.

Show outline

01.15 Discussion about auditions with Jonathan Freeman-Attwod

24.22 Interview with Anna Hashimoto, plus music from A Touch of France

52.27 News:

1 Tributes paid to the late Sir John Tavener

2 Centenary of Benjamin Britten celebrated in Aldeburgh

3 Mark Elder to stay at Hallé until 2020

4 Peter Maxwell Davies calls music education in UK schools a 'disgrace'

5 Pianist on trial for causing excessive noise pollution

Taking Notes is produced by Danny Holland

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Title Music 'Yentas Five' from a Proper Grown Up, by the Spike Orchestra