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Music Matters Episodes

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    Evgeny Kissin Memoirs, Yardbird, Jiri Belohlavek

    With pianist Evgeny Kissin, plus a discussion about gender issues in media composition.

  2. Thomas Ades and Gerald Barry, Sgt Pepper at 50, Guto Puw and Welsh-language music

    Tom Service is joined by composer-conductor Thomas Ades and composer Gerald Barry.

  3. Alma Deutscher, Cavalli at Glyndebourne, Election 2017

    Tom Service meets young composer and violinist Alma Deutscher.

  4. Monteverdi 450: Monteverdi the Radical

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the radical side of Claudio Monteverdi's music.

  5. Ravi Shankar's Sukanya, Jan Vogler

    Tom Service meets Jan Vogler, plus Ravi Shankar's opera Sukanya.

  6. Nikolaj Znaider, Philip Glass - Music in Twelve Parts, Daryl Runswick

    Tom Service meets violinist Nikolaj Znaider. Plus Philip Glass's Music in Twelve Parts.

  7. Music Therapy and Mental Health

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch with the latest research into music therapy for mental health.

  8. Andreas Haefliger, Monastic Music

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to pianist Andreas Haefliger and visits a musical monastery.

  9. Music in Hull

    Tom Service explores sounds of the Humber Bridge, Ethel Leginska and Hull's folk music.

  10. Mariss Jansons: How to build a concert hall

    Mariss Jansons talks to Tom Service. Plus a celebration of Scott Joplin, in his centenary.

  11. Nathalie Stutzmann: Contralto and Conductor

    Tom Service is joined by conductor-performers Nathalie Stutzmann and Richard Tognetti.

  12. Music in the Time of Our Lives

    At the Free Thinking Festival 2017, Tom Service explores our perception of music and time.

  13. Dinu Lipatti: a life at the piano

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews conductor Simone Young. Plus a tribute to Dinu Lipatti.

  14. Daniel Barenboim: 'The ABC of music-making is listening'

    Featuring conductors Marin Alsop, Sylvia Caduff and Daniel Barenboim.

  15. ENO premieres Wigglesworth's The Winter's Tale

    Tom Service talks to the creators of a new opera based on Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.

  16. At home with Maurizio Pollini

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews Maurizio Pollini. Plus the centenary of George Malcolm.

  17. Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla at CBSO

    Tom Service visits Symphony Hall in Birmingham to speak to conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla

  18. State of mind: music and mental health

    Tom Service explores issues of mental health for professional musicians.

  19. Immersed in Glass

    Including the music of Philip Glass and 50 years since the 1967 Sexual Offences Act.

  20. John Adams: An American optimist

    Tom Service interviews composer and conductor John Adams. Plus Brexit and the arts.

  21. Hamburg's new concert hall

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Hamburg's new concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie.

  22. Breaking Free - the minds that changed music

    Tom Service discusses the legacy of the Second Viennese School.

  23. Milton Babbitt: Changing the way we think about music

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to conductor Daniele Gatti.

  24. Christa Ludwig: from song to silence

    Retired mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig talks to Tom Service about her life in music.

  25. Busoni: music鈥檚 forgotten visionary

    Tom Service visits Berlin to explore the life and work of Busoni.

  26. Beats behind bars

    Mark-Anthony Turnage on prison music, plus Joseph Calleja, Ingo Metzmacher, and birdsong.

  27. The sound of mortality

    Pianist Jonathan Biss on late works, Fiona Maddocks on music 'to carry you through'.

  28. How will the arts respond to Trump?

    Donald Trump's cultural credentials, Barrie Kosky's The Nose, and Indian classical music.

  29. Vienna: City of Music

    Tom Service presents an edition from Vienna with music historian David Wyn Jones.

  30. John Cage in letters

    Letters by John Cage, a house inspired by Satie, and Hartmann's 1930s protest opera.

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