Up Close: Episode Four

Welcome to the fourth episode of Up Close: A Music in the Round podcast, presented by Tom McKinney.

This episode features:

• Horn player Naomi Atherton from Ensemble 360, chats with fellow horn-player Jo Towler, Music in the Round's Executive Director who asks, 'why do horns hunt in pairs?' before Naomi shares a unique, outdoor recording of her own transcription of an alphorn call;
• Violinist Claudia Ajmone-Marsan continues her series of readings from Beethoven's letters;
• Bernard Gregor Smith of the Lindsay String Quartet continues discussing and reading from his memoir, A Quintessential Quartet;
• Ensemble 360 members Tim Horton, Benjamin Nabarro, Ruth Gibson and Gemma Rosefield perform Dvořák's Piano Quartet No 2, Op.87 recorded at Upper Chapel in Sheffield, in December 2020.

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