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Music Matters Episodes

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    Classical Music鈥檚 Diversity Deficit: BAME Composers

    Tom Service discusses African-American composer Julius Eastman and diversity in music.

  2. Kristjan Jarvi, Viola Tunnard and Sally Beamish

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch meets Kristjan Jarvi and Sally Beamish, and remembers Viola Tunnard.

  3. Neville Marriner tribute, Matthew Kaner in Lucerne, Paul Robertson remembered

    Tom Service presents a tribute to the late Sir Neville Marriner.

  4. Sound Frontiers: Music and Technology

    Tom Service explores technological innovations in music for composers and performers.

  5. Sound Frontiers: Who Cares If You Listen?

    Tom Service considers the relationship between modern composers and audiences in 1946.

  6. Britten Books, Ruhrtriennale Festival

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch discusses two books about Britten. Plus a visit to the Ruhrtriennale.

  7. Cole Porter, Music News Round-Up, Housman

    Petroc Trelawny with a portrait of Cole Porter and a round-up 2015-16's big music stories.

  8. Herbert Blomstedt

    Tom Service talks to Herbert Blomstedt, a celebrated conductor of Romantic repertoire.

  9. St Magnus Festival

    Tom Service visits the St Magnus International Festival.

  10. Trevor Pinnock Interview

    Petroc Trelawny interviews harpsichordist and conductor Trevor Pinnock.

  11. Roger Scruton, Sonic Journey, Sound House

    Roger Scruton talks to Tom Service about his new Wagner book, The Ring of Truth.

  12. Daniel Kramer, Female Composers, James Rhodes

    Tom Service meets ENO's Daniel Kramer. Plus Anna Beer on her book on female composers.

  13. Esa-Pekka Salonen

    Tom Service is in conversation with renowned composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.

  14. Enescu, Crumb and Feldman, Philip Venables Opera

    Tom Service with a portrait of Enescu. Plus Philip Venables on his opera 4.48 Psychosis.

  15. Erik Satie at 150

    Tom Service explores Satie, the man and his music, on the 150th anniversary of his birth.

  16. Max Reger, Peter Dickinson

    Tom Service explores Max Reger's music and hears from composer and writer Peter Dickinson.

  17. Pleasure, Symphony Hall Birmingham

    Tom Service visits Opera North for the premiere of Pleasure and interviews Mark Simpson.

  18. Sounds of Shakespeare

    Tom Service on the music in Shakespeare's plays and Shakespearean music from 麻豆社 archives.

  19. John Williams, Sviatoslav Richter Book

    Tom Service talks to guitarist John Williams and reviews a memoir of Sviatoslav Richter.

  20. Michael Finnissy, Ginastera, Sustainably Sourced Instruments

    Tom Service interviews composer Michael Finnissy and discusses Alberto Ginastera.

  21. Ann Murray, Stalin's Music Prize

    Presented by Petroc Trelawny, with Irish mezzo-soprano Ann Murray in conversation.

  22. Jerusalem, Bach's Vocal Works, Streetwise Opera, Errollyn Wallen

    Including a visit to Streetwise Opera, a book about Bach and composer Errollyn Wallen.

  23. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

    Tom Service with a tribute to the composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

  24. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gesualdo 450, Vaughan Williams

    Petroc Trelawny travels to Naples to explore the radical 16th-century composer Gesualdo.

  25. Yannick Nezet-Seguin, International Women's Day

    Tom Service meets Canadian conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin.

  26. Hakan Hardenberger, Akhnaten, Beethoven, ENO Chorus

    Tom Service meets trumpeter Hakan Hardenberger and explores Philip Glass's Akhnaten.

  27. Kurtag at 90, Boris Giltburg, Glyndebourne Youth Opera

    Tom Service profiles composer Gyorgy Kurtag and hears from pianist Boris Giltburg.

  28. Lang Lang

    Lang Lang talks to Tom Service about his pianistic heroes and his involvement in education

  29. Welsh Musical Life

    Tom Service presents a special edition on Welsh musical life.

  30. Folk Connections; Chabrier

    With Tom Service. Including a portrait of Emmanuel Chabrier and Folk Connections.

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