The Lebrecht Interview on BBC Radio 3 – Norman Lebrecht talks with author-composer-conductor Leonard Slatkin. First broadcast on Tuesday December 30, 2025 at 9:15 p.m., and then available for thirty days afterwards. Recorded Sept. 2025.

Photo, Cindy McTee

Illuminating, entertaining and surprising conversation – Sinatra, Felix Slatkin, Eleanor Aller, Hollywood String Quartet, heart attack, St. Louis, George Gershwin, American Symphonies, Washington D.C., London orchestras, BBC Symphony, Last Night of the Proms-‘9/11’-death threats, Detroit, Nashville Symphony, Taylor Swift…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002npvw

Saturday, December 20, 2025 – Leonard Slatkin conducts NHKSO et al in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (‘Choral’), the first of five Tokyo performances (also 21st, 23rd, 24th & 26th).

KBS Symphony Orchestra – Leonard Slatkin conducts Cindy McTee’s Circuits & Shostakovich’s Eleventh Symphony (‘The Year 1905’), with Eric Lu playing Chopin’s F-minor Piano Concerto. Broadcast live on KBS1FM (KBS Classic FM)

Leonard Slatkin at University of Southern California – conducts USC Thornton Symphony in his own Schubertiade and Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Symphony. Streamed on recording.LA/ThorntonLive.

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra – Leonard Slatkin conducts his own Schubertiade & Elgar’s First Symphony, with Emanuel Ax playing Mozart’s C-major Piano Concerto (No.25/K503). Broadcast live on both Classic 107.3 and on St. Louis Public Radio.

Agony & Remembrance: twenty years on, Leonard Slatkin remembers ‘9/11’ & Last Night of the Proms.