With Steve Seel
This week on ‘SymphonyCast,’ Grammy-nominated composer and percussionist Andy Akiho performs his steel pan concerto, Beneath Lighted Coffers, with the Oregon Symphony. Also on the program, Schubert’s Symphony No. 9. Listen now with host Steve Seel.
This week on ‘SymphonyCast,’ we’re celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Bedrich Smetana with a full performance of his suite of six symphonic poems, Má Vlast (‘My Country’), played by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra led by Nicholas Harnoncourt.
On the latest episode of ‘SymphonyCast,’ acclaimed American soloist Randall Goosby takes the spotlight in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, bookended by Julia Perry’s ‘Homunculus C.F.’ and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 3. Listen now with host Steve Seel.
On this episode of ‘SymphonyCast,’ with host Steve Seel, we head to the Lakes Area Music Festival in Brainerd, Minnesota. Conductor Christian Rife leads a summer-night-themed concert, featuring music by Hector Berlioz with soprano Julia Bullock, as well as Brahms’ Symphony No. 2.
On this episode of ‘SymphonyCast,’ with host Steve Seel, the San Francisco Symphony is led by music director laureate Michael Tilson Thomas in Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, (‘Titan’). The program opens as pianist Yuja Wang plays Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1.
On the latest episode of ‘SymphonyCast,’ with host Steve Seel, A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra showcases musical voices that make up the tapestry of America, including Osvaldo Golijov, Jessie Montgomery and Dine/Navajo composer Juantio Becenti.
On the latest episode of ‘SymphonyCast,’ the German Symphony Orchestra of Berlin is led by Marin Alsop in a program featuring Antonin Dvorak’s ‘New World Symphony,’ Jessie Montgomery’s ‘Strum’ and Brett Dean’s Cello Concerto with soloist Alban Gerhardt. Listen now!
On the latest episode of ‘SymphonyCast,’ with host Steve Seel, Christian Macelaru leads the WDR Symphony Orchestra in an energetic program featuring Dvorak’s ‘Carnival Overture,’ Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 and Bartok’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with soloist Isabelle Faust. Listen now!
On the latest episode of ‘SymphonyCast,’ with host Steve Seel, Joshua Bell joins the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra to perform Bruch’s ever-popular Violin Concerto No. 1 and to lead the SPCO in Mozart’s Symphony No. 25 and Bizet’s Symphony No. 1. Listen now!
On the latest episode of ‘SymphonyCast,’ we visit Hamburg, Germany, to hear the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra perform two towering works: Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s rarely heard Manfred Symphony and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1, featuring violinist Augustin Hadelich. Listen now!
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.
Complete playlist information is available for each show. Click on a specific episode to access a detailed playlist.
It’s the opening trumpet fanfare from Steve Heitzeg’s Nobel Symphony.
It’s possible, but not likely. Many of the performances that you hear on SymphonyCast® are not available for purchase because they were played at a live concert. In some cases, the musicians have recorded that same music for a commercial CD. If so, album title and recording label information will be available in the episode playlist.
Use our contact form to send us your thoughts.
