Tony Barnfield takes us on a festive musical journey from regal palaces to more humble beginnings, celebrating Christmas, New Year and all things seasonal, from Bach to Britten and Vivaldi […]
Andrew Arthur tells Tony Barnfield about the carol he has commissioned from Trinity Hall alumna Anna Semple, plus reviews of seasonal and forthcoming CD releases.
Tony Barnfield meets the local tenor and pianist offering A Tour of Europe in Song, the BBC centenary celebrated by the Cambridge Concert Orchestra (pictured), the Hong Kong pianist returning […]
Tony Barnfield hears about the 500 schoolchildren joining Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort and Players at Ely Cathedral on Friday, while Christina McNally welcomes the return of classical orchestral […]
Local conductor, composer and author Sarah MacDonald talks to Tony Barnfield about her latest compositions and CD of Richard Peat’s music, plus Robert Emery’s latest campaign to promote classical music […]
Tony Barnfield talks to Cambridge composer Richard Causton about his newly-released disc La Terra Impareggiabile, pianist Adam Repa on returning to Cambridge for Wednesday’s Downing Place URC recital, Julio Caballero […]
Tony Barnfield talks to cellist Steven Isserlis ahead of Tuesday’s West Road Concert Hall performance, while Laurence Cummings reveals the Academy of Ancient Music’s new season, starting on Wednesday. Also, […]
Conductor Darren Bloom tells Tony Barnfield about Wednesday’s 90th birthday tribute to Cambridge Emeritus Professor of Music Alexander Goehr, while Cambridge Early Music Chairman Edward Wickham outlines next weekend’s 350th-anniversary […]
Composer Nico Muhly and harpist Parker Ramsay tell Tony Barnfield about The Street, recorded in King’s College Chapel, while Trinity College undergraduates Benedict Randall-Shaw and Helena Paish discuss their vocal […]
Tony Barnfield talks to multi-award-winning Milton teenage percussionist Jordan Ashman, newly named Young Musician of the Year 2022, while Henrik Persson enthuses over his unique Edward Lewis Viol of 1703, […]
Tony Barnfield hears about the art of conducting from New Cambridge Sinfonia’s Howard Williams, while Sarah Henderson and Harrison Cole discuss the music of Kenneth Leighton, plus Carlos Rodriguez Otero […]
This week, saxophonist Rob Buckland on a “Journey Across the Impossible” at Stapleford Granary, Professor Dame Mary Beard on her friend and former tutor Joyce Reynolds, who died last month […]
Tony Barnfield meets two Cambridge alumni, as cellist Guy Johnston talks about his Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival opening on Thursday and conductor Darrell Davison on the Sampson Orchestra of […]
Tony Barnfield returns with a new, weekly look at the local classical music scene, with guests including Cordelia Williams, a pianist fascinated by Nightlight, tenor Stephen Lawrence on Schubert, historian […]
This month, Tony Barnfield is joined by guest presenter Ralph Woodward, organist and conductor of Cambridge’s Fairhaven Singers, who talks to Gonville and Caius’ new Director of Music Matthew Martin […]
From the December edition of Cambridge 105 Radio’s monthly programme for classical music enthusiasts, Tony Barnfield plays tracks from the new CD Ben Parry: Music for Christmas and catches a […]
Among Tony Barnfield’s guests on the June edition, Trinity College alumnus Owain Park talks about his life as composer and conductor of Gesualdo Six and Cambridge Chorale.
On Cambridge 105 Radio’s Classical Cambridge programme for music enthusiasts, presenter Tony Barnfield is joined on each edition by Linda Ness and Charlie Long for the Cambridge Concert Calendar, featuring […]
The BBC’s Composer of the Week presenter tells Tony Barnfield how his radio work has evolved and when a composer’s widow invited him to King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, where he […]
Ely Cathedral has said farewell to Paul Trepte, who has been Director of Music there for some thirty years, as Tony Barnfield discovers when he joined Paul in the organ […]
This month’s Classical Cambridge included an interview with Bridget Hardy, who is giving a Schubert recital at Little St Mary’s Church on Saturday, 27 April, as she told Tony Barnfield […]
Cambridge alumnus Jonathan Dove was in town recently for the premiere of his new work Sappho Sings, performed by Fairhaven Singers this weekend. An extract from a rehearsal precedes Tony […]