December 08 Japan

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This month's podcast is a Japan special. As the orchestra embark on a 6-concert tour of Japan, we speak to violinist Akiko Suwanai about performing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, and we join Luke Crookes to find out more about the piece.

We also speak to Vladimir Ashkenazy about his remarkable career.

We hope you enjoy this podcast, and do let us know what you think using the comments below. You can subscribe to the series using one of the links above.

Click here for details of all December concerts

You can download a English text transcript of our podcast here

Japanese Translations: Matthew Lane / Haruka Kikuchi / Maya Iwabuchi