Peter Day’s World of Business on BBC Radio 4 explores the growing pressure on orchestras in a prolonged recession, including interviews with Mark Pemberton, Director of the Association of British Orchestras, Canadian violinist James Ehnes, the Netherlands orchestral cellist who has become a cultural activist, CEO of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Stephen Maddock, CBSO cellist Jackie Tyler and her ‘Chair Endower’, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in New York. 

Listen to the podcast here.