With Steve Seel
On the latest episode of ‘SymphonyCast,’ conductor Marin Alsop and cellist Alban Gerhardt join the German Symphony Orchestra of Berlin for works by Montgomery, Dean and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9. Listen now with host Steve Seel!
On this episode of SymphonyCast, it’s an end-of-season party like no other: the Last Night of the Proms! The BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC Singers are joined by soprano Angel Blue and pianist Stephen Hough. Listen now with host Steve Seel!
On this episode of ‘SymphonyCast,’ Patricia Kopatchinskaja returns to the Proms, joining the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto. Bookending the concert are ‘Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’’ by Vaughan Williams and the Symphony No. 5 by Shostakovich. Listen now with host Steve Seel!
‘SymphonyCast’ returns to the BBC Proms, where Klaus Mäkelä leads the Orchestre de Paris in a program of French music, including Debussy’s ‘Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,’ Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie Fantastique’ and Stravinsky’s ‘Petrushka.’ Listen now with host Steve Seel!
On this episode of ‘SymphonyCast,’ Mendelssohn’s incidental music from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is the centerpiece, featuring conductor Gemma New and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Also, hear Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with soloist Anthony McGill. Listen now with host Steve Seel!
We’re back at the Proms on this episode of ‘SymphonyCast’! The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, led by its co-founder Daniel Barenboim, presents a program featuring Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 and the Violin Concerto by Brahms, featuring soloist Anne-Sophie Mutter. Listen now with host Steve Seel!
Violinist Tobias Feldmann makes his Proms debut with the BBC Philharmonic and Beethoven’s joyful Violin Concerto. Also on the concert is a new work by Sarah Gibson, and the final symphony of Johannes Brahms.
On the latest episode of ‘SymphonyCast,’ with host Steve Seel, Nicholas Collon leads the BBC Philharmonic in a program featuring a world premiere by Anna Clyne and the vibrant and mind-blowing Turangalîla Symphony of Olivier Messiaen.
On the latest episode of SymphonyCast, with host Steve Seel, Mark Elder wraps up his last season as Music Director of the Hallé with the entire Hallé family, in a concert featuring Gustav Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 5.
On the latest episode of ‘SymphonyCast,’ the 2024 Proms season opens with Handel’s Overture from ‘Music for the Royal Fireworks.’ Elim Chan leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto with soloist Isata Kanneh-Mason. Listen now with host Steve Seel!
SymphonyCast®, with host Steve Seel, is a two-hour weekly radio program featuring a full-length concert by a major orchestra. Material is drawn from Europe’s premier symphony orchestras, along with U.S. orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Nashville Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra.
Steve Seel possesses a broad knowledge of many musical genres, having hosted radio programs ranging from classical to jazz and even avant-garde music at radio stations around the country. Steve began his love affair with public radio at 24 working whatever shifts he could at his hometown station of WUSF-FM in Tampa, Florida, and from there worked his way to snowy Buffalo, New York, and its renowned classical station WNED-FM, where he hosted middays and the weekly experimental-music show Present Tense. In 2005, Steve became one of the founding voices on Minnesota Public Radio's eclectic station, the Current. While there, he hosted afternoons and mornings, and conducted in-depth interviews with pop music luminaries ranging from Brian Eno to David Byrne to Tori Amos. Steve is a basement composer obsessed with all things both minimalist and slow, and might actually be incapable of writing anything that exceeds 75 beats-per-minute.
Daniel Nass is the producer of SymphonyCast®. He is responsible for creating the sound of the show, including choosing music programming and conducting artist interviews. In his nonproducer life, he is an avid runner and an award-winning composer.
Michael "Ozzie" Osborne is the Technical Director for SymphonyCast®. He masters the live and recorded music recordings that are programmed for each SymphonyCast® show. He also enjoys photography, listening to music and bicycling.
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