Writer and broadcaster, Edward Seckerson was the chief classical music critic of The Independent newspaper and a founder member of The ArtsDesk.com.
He wrote and presented the long-running BBC Radio3 show Stage and Screen where he interviewed many of the biggest names in the business – among them Julie Andrews, Angela Lansbury, Liza Minnelli, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sting.
During his journalistic career he has written for most major music publications and is on the review panel of Gramophone magazine.
Edward conducted one of the last major interviews with Leonard Bernstein and his audio podcast Sondheim – In Good Company has proved a significant contribution to Sondheim’s 80th birthday year.
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Writer and broadcaster, Edward Seckerson was the chief classical music critic of The Independent newspaper and a founder member of The ArtsDesk.com.
He wrote and presented the long-running BBC Radio3 show Stage and Screen where he interviewed many of the biggest names in the business – among them Julie Andrews, Angela Lansbury, Liza Minnelli, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sting.
During his journalistic career he has written for most major music publications and is on the review panel of Gramophone magazine.
Edward conducted one of the last major interviews with Leonard Bernstein and his audio podcast Sondheim – In Good Company has proved a significant contribution to Sondheim’s 80th birthday year.
A Conversation With VASILY PETRENKO: His Shostakovich symphony cycle
Edward Seckerson
17 minutes 52 seconds
12 years ago
A Conversation With VASILY PETRENKO: His Shostakovich symphony cycle
As Vasily Petrenko’s much-lauded Shostakovich symphony cycle moves closer to completion we reach the renegade Fourth Symphony written in 1935 and driven underground by Stalin and his establishment naysayers. This astonishing piece – which remained unperformed for 25 years until 1961 when Kondrashin in Russia and Eugene Ormandy in the USA brought it in from … [Read More]
Edward Seckerson
Writer and broadcaster, Edward Seckerson was the chief classical music critic of The Independent newspaper and a founder member of The ArtsDesk.com.
He wrote and presented the long-running BBC Radio3 show Stage and Screen where he interviewed many of the biggest names in the business – among them Julie Andrews, Angela Lansbury, Liza Minnelli, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sting.
During his journalistic career he has written for most major music publications and is on the review panel of Gramophone magazine.
Edward conducted one of the last major interviews with Leonard Bernstein and his audio podcast Sondheim – In Good Company has proved a significant contribution to Sondheim’s 80th birthday year.
