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Welcome to Geek & Sundry’s hub for all things RPG! Each week, our collection of deeply nerdy storytellers take you on epic journeys across the multiverse in our critically acclaimed actual play podcasts that use tabletop role-playing games to tell ever-evolving, improvised stories, including the complete collection of Critical Role’s Campaign 1. Current Season: Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode Three monstrous minions find themselves in charge for once when the evil necromancer they serve mysteri ...
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Conversations from the world of classical music hosted by Presto Music's Paul Thomas, David Smith and Rob Cowan. Guests have included artists such as Jess Gillam, Anna Lapwood and Patricia Kopatchinskaja, and respected writers and critics like Rob Cowan, David Hurwitz and Andrew Mellor. Visit us at www.prestomusic.com
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Bizzee, Tippy, and Fibs are headed for the exit of the dungeon, but danger lies in their way…danger and an obnoxious ex-coworker: Mimsy, the mimic chest. Will they close the lid on the only home they've ever known? Or will they fall into line with Fiends United? Find out if these three former lemmings make it out alive on this episode of Sagas of S…
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Welcome to Quests N’ Answers, the companion series to Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode. ***Spoilers ahead for episode 1*** Hosted by Dan Casey, you'll go behind the dice (and behind the scenes) with gamemaster Amy Vorpahl and fellow cast members Danielle Radford and Jason Nguyen. Discover a bit of what went into the creation of Episode 1: No Place Like…
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Three minions are left alive after the dungeon where they work is ransacked by "heroes." Led by gamemaster Amy Vorpahl, two skeletons (Danielle Radford and Dan Casey) and a goblin (Jason Nguyen) set out to see if they can escape the pit into which they've fallen, find their friends, and get back to serving their overlord. Learn more about your ad c…
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To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the London Symphony Orchestra's own label, Head of LSO Live Becky Lees, first violinist Maxine Kwok, and principal percussionist Neil Percy talk to James about how the label came to exist, the process of capturing live concerts for release, and their memories of some favourite recordings through the year…
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After Zora’s endurance is tested and she emerges successfully from her journey underwater, it is up to her and Caroline to gather as much intel as possible. Our adventurers wait patiently for her return to prepare for their biggest battle yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Reeling from the catastrophic events in the sewer, the group returns to R&R for counsel from Prof. Roundland. Her network of informants have a lead on the sisters’ whereabouts. There they decide their next step with guidance from Human Paladin, Zora. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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After a tour de force performance from Tiefling Detective Sam and springing Jack from jail, the adventurers extract intel from the notorious layabout. Between Jack's information and the letter from Uloo, their next logical step is investigating The Melted Shoe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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After a harrowing experience in King Senna’s Tomb and almost losing Rikki, the team receives new info from Professor Roundland. Rumor has it fresh clues to the sisters’ nefarious plans lie right here in the town of Bellbrook! She teams them up with Tiefling Warlock Private Detective Sam, who knows these streets like the back of his hand. Learn more…
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Having set off for the Tomb of King Senna to find the Axe of Thanian Mayit, our adventurers have run into peril. They will have to think fast to escape this deadly situation -- and the tomb -- with their lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesעל ידי geekandsundry
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Combined with theories from the team, The Compendium of Curiosities points Professor Roundland to their next mission. The adventurers must seek out the Axe of Thanian Mayit. Rumored to be buried with King Senna in his tomb, the Professor pairs the team with renowned tomb expert, Mumeé. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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After climbing aboard Dr. Akiva’s submarine, The Angler, the adventurers gain more insight into some of the unethical practices which ostracized the sister from the medical community. They find themselves in the middle of a horrifying situation and have to use all at their disposal to gather intel and escape! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
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Professor Roundland’s spies have tagged a shipment that will help lead the adventurers to the whereabouts of Dr. Akiva. With the help of the pirate Seamus, they set out on a fact finding expedition to gather more intel on the sisters’ nefarious plans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Another second-album episode! A follow-up not to a trailblazingly exploratory recording (as when we spoke to Heloïse Werner last episode) but to a quietly uplifting one, filled with spirituality and peace. The Poor Clares of Arundel appeared on many people's musical radar back in 2020, when their album Light For The World was released into the mids…
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A battle awaits our adventurers in their search for the fire gem. Having just encountered one of the strange, dangerous creatures that roam Briarcleft Forest, the group must think quickly to emerge victorious! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesעל ידי geekandsundry
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After deciphering the first part of the prophecy revealed by Sara Benthem, the adventurers journey to Briarcleft Forest with the assistance of R&R Brigade ally Ionis. Following a lead given to them by Professor Roundland, they seek out the Gem of Fire. Featuring special guest Sam Richardson! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch…
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A mysterious letter summons four adventurers to an unassuming curio shop called Relics & Rarities. They are recruited by its owner, Professor Roundland, who sends them to investigate the disturbances at Benthem Manor. Featuring special guest Matthew Lillard! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Hot on the heels of 2022's Phases comes a second album from acclaimed young singer-composer Heloïse Werner, Close-Ups. Drawing together works by Bingen, Strozzi, the French Baroque composer Julie Pinel, and Errollyn Wallen, it also features compositions by Werner herself - including Les Leçons du Mardi, an acerbic, witty piece biting back against c…
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Recently unearthed from the archives comes the full version of CelebriD&D with Joe Manganiello! This episode features actor Joe Manganiello (Archenemy, Magic Mike XXL, Justice League) as the Dragonborn paladin/barbarian Arkhan joining forces with Critical Role's Matthew Mercer (Dungeon Master), Marisha Ray, and Taliesin Jaffe, alongside Nerdist's D…
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This year the Berliner Philharmoniker celebrates two anniversaries, with the online Digital Concert Hall turning 15, and the Berliner Philharmoniker label marking its first decade. Rob Cowan spoke to Olaf Maninger, who alongside a busy schedule as principal cellist with the orchestra, is General Manager of Berlin Phil Media GmbH, and has been one o…
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Violinist Francesca Dego kicks off the Busoni centenary celebrations with her new album, pairing his concerto with that of Brahms - a juxtaposition that might seem strange, until you realise (as Francesca describes) the deep connections between the two works, so much so that Busoni's concerto could even be seen as a direct homage to Brahms's. As we…
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Pianist Martin James Bartlett first came to many people’s attention in 2014, when he won the BBC Young Musician Award. A Proms debut followed the next year, and a recording contract with Warner Classics not long after. To date, both of Martin’s albums on Warner have been centred around a unifying core concept - recital-recordings with a clear and t…
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As every opera-fan must surely be aware by now, December saw the centenary of Maria Callas’s birth, and Warner Classics marked the occasion by issuing the most comprehensive collection of her recordings ever released – clocking in at a whopping 131 CDs, La Divina offers the chance to experience Callas’s unique qualities in all 74 roles for which au…
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Although plenty of attention has been lavished on the four hundredth anniversary of the death of William Byrd, his contemporary Thomas Weelkes also died in 1623 - on the 30th of November - and has seen rather less in the way of commemoration. In addition to Weelkes being a composer of great gifts, his reputation also rests in part on his track reco…
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The 'Schubert in English' series on Signum Classics sees its fourth instalment this year - following up Winter Journey, Swansong and The Fair Maid of the Mill with a wider-ranging collection of songs, sung by Roderick Williams and Rowan Pierce with Christopher Glynn at the piano. Front and centre, too, are the translations of Jeremy Sams, which at …
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As "the classiest brass ensemble in Britain" turns 30, Onyx Brass's trombonist Amos Miller looks back over three decades of brass quintet music-making, with an eye on exploring contemporary repertoire. We discuss the group's latest album, 'The sun is free to flow with the sea', and some of the works featured on it, as well as touching on questions …
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A discussion of the OUP's recently-published collection of sacred and secular choral works by Black composers, with its editor Dr Marques Garrett - taking in Vicente Lusitano, Undine Smith Moore, R Nathaniel Dett (Dr Garrett's own particular labour of love) and more. Presto Music All things musical... on your doorstep! Visit our website: www.presto…
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Arthur Bliss was one of the most important British musicians of his age. Having served with distinction in the Great War, in which he was both injured and gassed, he subsequently became the most performed British composer abroad. He served as Director of Music at the BBC from 1942-44, and was appointed Master of the Queen’s Music in 1953. Bliss was…
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The great Russian Romantic composer Sergei Rachmaninoff declared that his music was "the product of his temperament, therefore Russian", but he spent the final 26 years of life in exile after fleeing Russia in 1917. While in exile he composed his late masterpieces including the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the Symphonic Dances, while also pr…
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Earlier this year we saw the release of not one, but two box sets dedicated to recordings by the Minnesota Orchestra under their Hungarian conductor Antal Doráti, recordings made by the Mercury Record Company in the 1950's. To discuss the artistic and sonic legacy of these Mono and Stereo box sets I was privileged to be joined not only by record cr…
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Some "concept" albums can seem a little contrived – with themes not so much neatly interwoven as crudely welded onto one another. Not so Emmanuel Despax's new album Après un rêve, which draws together its three main ideas so naturally that it seems as if the album must have sprung from Despax's mind fully formed. A poetic legacy from his music-lovi…
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Over the nearly twenty years since its formation, Vox Luminis has appeared in our metaphorical pages plenty of times – the Belgian early music ensemble consistently combines original and exploratory programming with impeccable musicianship. Every album Lionel Meunier and his musicians release can be relied on to be not just a feast for the ears but…
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