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The Global StoryHave the protests in Iran failed?After weeks of mass demonstrations, Iran is reeling from one of the deadliest government crackdowns in its history. In a rare speech on Saturday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei admitted that thousands of protesters have been killed, "some in an inhuman, savage manner", but he also blamed the US for their deaths.President Trump urged Iranian demonstrators to “keep protesting”, promising that “help is on its way”. Yet the window for US military intervention appears to have narrowed while the Iranian government has largely quelled the unrest. Amid a near-total internet shutdown however, the situation on the gro...
2026-01-2126 min
Record Review PodcastSchumann's KreislerianaPianist Lucy Parham with a personal recommendation for Schumann's Kreisleriana.
2025-12-2953 min
The Pianist PodcastLucy ParhamIn this podcast, Lucy Parham talks to Pianist editor Erica Worth about her Composer Portrait series and all the many actors she works with. She also explains why teaching the piano plays such an important role in her musical life, how learning to play a good simple cantabile melody is just as ‘difficult’ as playing a prestissimo run, and – even if she can’t live without his music – why she’ll leave Bach to the experts.
2025-12-1234 minRecord Review PodcastSchumann's CarnavalLucy Parham chooses her favourite recording of Schumann's Carnaval.
2025-03-3149 min
Formula Indie Asia, Africa & OceaniaFORMULA INDIE ASIA, AFRICA & OCEANIA 31.1.2025Allie Jean – Burn Your Big House DownAlly Row – The Great UnknownARCTISKY – Loose (feat. Nic Rippon)Burrow – Pull The LeverCarpe Diem – Ne Plus Ultra Clark Fable – Sunshine DIETER HORVAT – Sacred WordsEMIRKAN KANDEMIR – The EquinoxForever At Midnight – Meant To BeGROOVE VULTURES – What Happened to LucyIBG – Broken Man JAMIESON – BetterJesseMelancholy – wingsKAIWYN – CupidtisedKingbird - In the beginning LADY LAZARUS – CuckoldLisa De Angelis – Wildwood (Time To...
2025-01-311h 59Record Review PodcastJS Bach's English SuitesLucy Parham selects her favourite piano version of JS Bach's 6 English Suites BWV.806-811
2024-09-3046 min
The Aussie BereanEpisode 50: Pentecostal History: Azusa StreetContact Have an idea for an Episode or notice something that needs correction? Contact me at theaussieberean@gmail.com Or come and join the Aussie Berean facebook group https://m.facebook.com/groups/340755358458228/?ref=share&mibextid=S66gvF Scripture Used in This Episode 2 Samuel 6:14-16, 2 Kings 20:7, Acts 2:1-4, Acts 6:1-4, 1 Corinthians 1:26-28, Galatians 3:26-28, 1 Timothy 5:23, Extra Biblical Sources/Links History of Revival in Australia: https://revivalsresearch.net/docs/EvangelicalismAndRevivalsInAustralia1800-1914.pdf The Holiness Movement: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiness_movement Jim Crow Racial Segregation Laws: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...
2024-08-241h 13Record Review PodcastMozart's Piano Concerto No 23 in A majorLucy Parham chooses her favourite version of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23 in A major
2024-06-1047 min
Woman's HourWeekend Woman’s Hour: British cyclist Lizzy Banks, Show-women, Love bombing, Infected blood scandalOn 28 July last year the British cyclist Lizzy Banks received an email from UK Anti Doping to say she had return two Adverse Analytical Findings. The letter stated she faced the prospect of a two-year ban unless she could establish the source. Thus began a ten-month journey investigating, researching and writing submissions to establish how the contamination event occurred. Absolved of any blame, having proved on the balance of probabilities that her test was contaminated, Lizzy speaks to Nuala McGovern about how the process destroyed her mentally, emotionally and professionally.Olivier award-winning theatre maker Marisa Carnesky is...
2024-05-3156 minWoman's HourIndia's women voters, Dame Harriet Walter on Clara Schumann, Climate medal winnerAs India goes to the polls in the penultimate round of voting in their general election, Anita speaks to the BBC’s Divya Arya in Delhi. They discuss what political issues are most important to women in this election, and how the main parties have been wooing them.Valérie Courtois was recently announced as the winner of the 2024 Shackleton medal for her work revolutionizing climate conservation in the Canadian arctic, most notably for her vision connecting Indigenous Guardians as ‘the eyes and ears on the ground’ to preserve ecosystems. Valérie talks to Anita about leading the move...
2024-05-2457 min
Music MattersAurora Orchestra's Winterreise, Kerry Andrew, and Women at the PianoTom Service talks to pianist and writer, Susan Tomes, about her new book Women and the Piano - a History in 50 Lives. Those lives include well-known names today, from Clara Schumann to Nina Simone, but also many women like Marianne Martinez who have been eclipsed from previous histories of pianists. Tom and Susan discuss how women went from being the Queens of the piano in domestic settings to being excluded from public performances and conservatoires during the development of the concert piano. Pianist, Lucy Parham, talks to Tom too about the impact that Susan's book has had on her...
2024-03-0944 minRecord Review PodcastBeethoven's Piano Sonata No. 26 "Les Adieux"Lucy Parham chooses her favourite version of Beethoven's Piano Sonata, 'Les Adieux'
2024-02-0544 min
Front RowFront Row Special: Rachmaninoff – the 20th century’s great romanticSamira celebrates the music and life of Sergei Rachmaninoff. With pianist Kirill Gerstein, who has released a new recording of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic, Marina Frolova-Walker, Professor of Music at Cambridge, pianist Lucy Parham, who has created a Composer Portrait concert about Rachmaninoff that she is currently touring across the UK. Plus film historian and composer Neil Brand discusses the use of Rachmaninoff's music in film classics such as Brief Encounter.First broadcast on 1 May 2023.Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Timothy Prosser
2024-01-0342 min
The Regular Man PodcastWhy Big Eva is the Way it is S1E10Send us a textWhat is "Big Eva" and where did it come from? In this episode, we will cover some history of the modern evangelical church and where some of the current practices come from. I'll talk about experiential worship, the altar call, head-bowed-eyes-closed 'declarations,' and even lady 'pastors.' This will probably get the most hate mail so far, so, make sure you share it with everyone!New episodes of The Regular Man Podcast are released on Mondays. But you can watch the early exclusively on X and Patreon for FREE!...
2023-11-2732 min
Dive & DigUnmoored: Heritage Crime on D-Day Tanks in Poole Bay, UKProfessor Lucy Blue speaks to Professor Dave Parham from Bournemouth University who has been diving on the remains of 1944 Valentine Tank assemblage in Poole Bay. Made buoyant by the addition of a canvas skirt they proved essential in getting armoured support onto the beach during the historic D-Day landings. Scheduled under the Ancient Monuments Act means they are protected by law. On a recent inspection the turret on one tank was found to have been pulled off. There were no obvious clues as to the culprit, so the police were called in to help solve this crime. Who did it? How...
2023-11-2217 min
Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast165: Pianist Lucy ParhamLucy Parham introduces selected piano works by Sergei Rachmaninoff ahead of her London Piano Festival appearance with actor Tim McInnery. For more information and tickets visit: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/london-piano-festival/
2023-10-0237 min
Break Out Culture With Ed Vaizey by Country and Town House127. The Joys of the Piano: The Eighth London Piano Festival with Katya Apekisheva and Charles OwenAcclaimed pianists, Charles Owen and Moscow-born Katya Apekisheva, started the London Piano Festival at Kings Place in 2016 as a way of bringing together pianists from around the world. Pianists tend to practice and play in isolation so it can be a lonely profession and this is a much-loved opportunity for them to come together and share their passion for their instrument and its music.
Between 5th and 8th October this year’s festival is celebrating the 150th birth of Rachmaninov and the centenary of the less well-known but hugely significant and ground-breaking Hungarian musician, Gryorgy Ligeti.
We hear...
2023-09-2929 min
Dan Snow's History HitWWII Britain: The Home Guard's Silent AssassinsWWII Britain's Home Guard wasn't a bumbling dad's army but in fact included factions of highly trained silent killers and spies hiding out in secret bunkers, caves and safe houses all over the country. The Auxiliary Unit was given a deliberately boring name to disguise the top secret mission they'd been tasked with- if and when the Germans invaded the British Isles, they would have to stop the first waves of soldiers, taking them down as they moved inland, often in brutal and secretive ways. They were locals chosen from and posted around coastal areas who knew the land...
2023-08-2449 minFront RowRachmaninoff - the 20th century's great romanticSamira celebrates the music and life of Sergei Rachmaninoff. With pianist Kirill Gerstein, who has released a new recording of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic, Marina Frolova-Walker, Professor of Music at Cambridge, pianist Lucy Parham, who has created a Composer Portrait concert about Rachmaninoff that she is currently touring across the UK. Plus film historian and composer Neil Brand discusses the use of Rachmaninoff's music in film classics such as Brief Encounter. Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Timothy Prosser
2023-05-0142 minRecord Review PodcastRachmaninov's 24 PreludesLucy Parham chooses her favourite recording of Rachmaninov's 24 piano preludes.Rachmaninov's 24 piano preludes in all the 24 major and minor keys are a glorious treasure trove of different pianistic styles from lyrical to barn-storming. He wrote and published them at different times, and didn't regard them as a unified set. Unlike the keyboard preludes of Bach and Chopin they are not organized according to their keys either. But for a feast of piano playing, they are an essential thing for your library. And some of the titans of the keyboard have recorded their interpretations, including the composer himself...
2023-01-0247 minMusic MattersBeatrice Rana, The Ordering of Moses, Claude Debussy and Emma BardacImage: © Simon FowlerThe Italian pianist Beatrice Rana joins Tom Service to discuss her immersion in Beethoven’s late piano sonatas during Italy’s lockdown, and her relationship with one of the most famous works in the canon – the composer’s ‘Emperor’ concerto. She reflects on how the circumstances of Chopin’s life are articulated in his Scherzi, and on thanking audiences for being part of performances. With Robert Nathaniel Dett’s Oratorio, The Ordering of Moses, receiving its first outing in the UK with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus on Wednesday, some 85 years aft...
2022-02-1944 minRecord Review PodcastRachmaninov's 2nd Piano SonataPianist Lucy Parham picks through the greatest recordings of Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Sonata. Sergei Rachmaninov's Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 36, in B-flat minor was composed in 1913 and revised it in 1931. Three years after his third piano concerto was finished, he moved with his family to Rome and started working on his second piano sonata. It is a mighty but technically challenging piece. Rachmaninov himself was not satisfied with the work and revised it in 1931. In 1940, the pianist Vladimir Horowitz created his own edition which combined elements of both previous versions.
2022-01-3046 minRecord Review PodcastMozart: Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K 491Lucy Parham picks her favourite recording of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor
2021-03-2953 min
Sir Kevin SaysEpisode XXX - Lil John Roberts (Drummer for Janet Jackson) Season IIIBack with another episode for ya! Some great stories from Lil John Roberts and his musical experiences. Hope you enjoy it just as much as I did!
About Lil John Roberts
His extensive list of credits include work with: Al Green, Anita Baker, Anthony Hamilton, B.B. King, BeBe and CeCe Winans, Bilal, Bruce Parham, Common, Dave Chappelle (Juke Joint Tour), Dionne Farris, Earth, Wind & Fire, Elton John, Erykah Badu, Frank McComb, India.Arie, Joss Stone, Jamie Foxx, Jill Scott, Juanita Bynum, Kindred, Lucy Pearl, Mary J. Blige, Janet Jackson (Janet Tour, V...
2020-11-1446 minRecord Review PodcastBrahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34Lucy Parham recommends recordings of Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
2020-10-1450 min
Talking Heads - a Gardening PodcastBonus Episode #3: Lucy and Saul in conversation with Tom Brown - Head Gardener at West Dean Gardens, West Sussex - we talk about his career from RHS Wisley to West Dean and how he and the garden is coping with the current health crisis...From time to time Lucy and Saul decided they wanted to record conversations with other Head Gardeners, Curators, Garden Owners and fellow horticulturists across the UK, these will be published as Bonus Episodes alongside their usual format of chatting about their gardening lives. We hope you enjoy.For the Bonus Episode #3 we're really pleased to welcome Tom Brown, new(ish) Head Gardener at West Dean Gardens in West Sussex. Tom shares his gardening journey from work in the Plant Shop at Wisley, through supervising the Trial Grounds, taking the big step into head gardening at Parham House...
2020-05-0138 minRecord Review PodcastR. Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minorLucy Parham recommends recordings of Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor
2019-04-2053 min
The Radio 3 DocumentarySunday Feature - Concerto: The One and the ManyAcclaimed actor Simon Russell Beale is fascinated by the concerto and how the role of the soloist has evolved from baroque times to now. In this Sunday Feature (exploring the theme of this year's Free Thinking Festival - The One and the Many), Simon explores the complex dynamics between the soloist and orchestra, drawing parallels between the world of the concerto and that of the stage. He asks whether the concerto really is a competition between the soloist and the orchestra or a deeper musical communion. He also asks why the concerto has endured beyond the symphony and ponders...
2018-03-1543 min
We Love Lucy2.01 Job Switching feat. Alison RichIs there anyone who hasn't seen Lucy & Ethel's conveyer belt scene?
Are Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair a modern Lucy and Ethel?
Why did Fred think icing gets baked into a cake?!?
We Love Lucy is back with Season 2 discussing the best-known Lucy episode, "Job Switching" aka the Chocolate Factory one featuring a guest appearance by actor and director Alison Rich!
2017-07-0300 min
The Listening ServiceRachmaninov's Second Piano ConcertoTom Service examines one of the most famous concertos in the piano repertoire. What is the secret of its appeal? Why does it have such emotional impact? Why did the critics hate it, yet why is it such a classical favourite in the world of popular culture - from Mickey Mouse to Marilyn Monroe to Muse? And what did Rachmaninov have to go through to compose it? With pianist Lucy Parham.
2016-09-1132 min
In Tune HighlightsDominic West, Lucy Parham, Henze TributeMark-Anthony Turnage and Dennis Marks pay tribute to the late composer Hans Werner Henze, who has died at the age of 86. Actor Dominic West and pianist Lucy Parham perform extracts from their new show Reverie, which tells the story of Claude Debussy through his own words and music.
2012-10-3028 min
Radio 3's Piano A to ZO for OrchestraHow do you practice a concerto without an orchestra? Who controls a concerto - conductor or soloist? Are there any similarities between taking the role of soloist and sitting at the back as the anonymous orchestral pianist? Guests Stephen Hough, Lucy Parham and Ben Dawson paint a picture of solitary practice rooms, the pressure of not missing your cue, going into battle with an orchestra and the thrill of a Tchaikovsky piano concerto.
2012-10-0907 minRadio 3's Piano A to ZF for FingersThe piano is an unusual musical instrument in that all ten digits of the performer can be used to sound different notes simultaneously. Fingers need practice, and practice makes perfect. Working hard to build strength and dexterity is part and parcel of every pianist's story, and just as in sport, exercises are a necessary evil. But what can start out as a chore when young can eventually become a pleasure when technique is more advanced and exercises turn into Chopin or Moskowski Etudes – written and designed for developing technique but also being very beautiful music. Featuring Lucy Parham, Gwilym Si...
2012-09-2408 minRadio 3's Piano A to ZE for EncoresThere's an art to choosing and performing an encore, even for the world's top pianists. Being invited to return to the stage calls for a choice that complements but doesn't upstage the programme the audience have just heard. And it mustn't keep the orchestra sitting too long with nothing to do. It must be prepared and yet feel like a spontaneous treat. Above all, it's a pleasure. Featuring Lucy Parham, Stephen Hough, Lang Lang and Angela Hewitt.
2012-09-2108 minRadio 3's Piano A to ZC for CompetitionsCompetitions are a vital part of many classical pianists' careers. They are a testing ground, and a way to get noticed in a crowded field. But are they an exciting way to make a name as a young musician, a necessary evil, or are they in fact not necessary at all?
Featuring Stephen Hough, Lucy Parham, Angela Hewitt and Pierre Laurent Aimard.
2012-09-1907 min
Kings PlaceSchumann: A Celebration with Lucy ParhamSchumann Bicentenary: A Celebration
September 27 -- October 2 2010
Pianist Lucy Parham performs Schumann's Des Abends Op.12 and Intermezzo in E flat minor Op.26; she discusses her love of Schumann's music and the inspiration behind some unusual and entertaining musical events during this celebratory week of concerts.
With Helen Wallace.
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/music/weekly-themes?theme=144
2010-09-2708 minKings Place Mini Podcasts - ClassicalSchumann: A Celebration with Lucy ParhamSchumann Bicentenary: A Celebration
September 27 -- October 2 2010
Pianist Lucy Parham performs Schumann's Des Abends Op.12 and Intermezzo in E flat minor Op.26; she discusses her love of Schumann's music and the inspiration behind some unusual and entertaining musical events during this celebratory week of concerts.
With Helen Wallace.
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/music/weekly-themes?theme=144
2010-09-2708 minKings Place TracksSchumann: A Celebration with Lucy ParhamSchumann Bicentenary: A Celebration
September 27 -- October 2 2010
Pianist Lucy Parham performs Schumann's Des Abends Op.12 and Intermezzo in E flat minor Op.26; she discusses her love of Schumann's music and the inspiration behind some unusual and entertaining musical events during this celebratory week of concerts.
With Helen Wallace.
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/music/weekly-themes?theme=144
2010-09-2708 min