Tonight, in a conversation recorded last week, I speak with the Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda (above). Noseda, chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester and music director of the Teatro Reggio opera house in Turin, made a thrilling debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra last month with music of Saariaho, Beethoven, and the CSO première (!) of the 1895 Rachmaninoff First Symphony, a work Noseda has championed and that he recorded in 2008 for Chandos. (You can see my Chicago Sun-Times review of the concert here.) We talk about the development of a conductor; working, for the first time, with the great Radu Lupu; studying and working with Valery Gergiev; and the relative merits of language and physical communication, among other topics.
10 p.m. to 11 p.m. CST on 98.7WFMT Chicago and via free streaming on wfmt.com and subsequently available indefinitely for download/podcast/streaming at wfmt.com/criticalthinking.
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