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Music Matters Episodes

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    Tribute to Charles Rosen; Mummers plays and 2012 highlights.

    Suzy Klein explores the world of mummers plays and picks Music Matters 2012 highlights.

  2. Jonathan Harvey Tribute, William Christie, Royal Northern College of Music

    Tom Service pays tribute to composer Jonathan Harvey.

  3. Andras Schiff, Britten Letters, Irvine Arditti

    Tom Service talks to pianist Andras Schiff and reads Benjamin Britten's final letters.

  4. Meredith Monk, Calixto Bieito, A History of Opera

    Tom Service is joined by Meredith Monk, and Calixto Bieito.

  5. Hans Werner Henze and Elliott Carter Tribute

    Tom Service with a tribute to composers Hans W Henze and Elliott Carter who died recently.

  6. Free Thinking

    Tom Service presents a debate asking 'is classical music really for everyone?'.

  7. Frederic Rzewski, Georg Solti Centenary, Barry Millington

    Tom Service is joined by pianist Frederic Rzewski. Plus Solti at 100 and a book on Wagner.

  8. Pierrot Lunaire, Inside-Out Piano, Saint-Saens

    Tom meets conductor Kent Nagano in his new role as music director at Hamburg State Opera.

  9. Piano Music, Julius Caesar

    Tom Service talks about contemporary piano music with three leading pianists.

  10. Anna Caterina Antonacci, the BCMG, Wagner's Ring

    With Anna Caterina Antonacci, the BCMG and Wagner's Ring.

  11. John Cage

    Mark Swed and David Nicholls join Tom Service to reassess the life and music of John Cage.

  12. 07/07/2012

    Tom Service explores music making in Northern Ireland.

  13. Celebrating Claude Debussy

    Tom Service gets the French view of Debussy in the 150th anniversary of his birth.

  14. Versailles, Music in 1853 and The Oxford History of Western Music

    Tom Service travels to Versailles to discover more about the Royal Opera House.

  15. Dawn Upshaw, Mozart, 3 British female composers and keeping the musical legacy alive.

    Tom Service speaks to soprano Dawn Upshaw, and to the widows of Nono, Nancarrow and Berio.

  16. The Thames, Folk Songs & Xenakis

    Suzy Klein travels to France to investigate the world of composer Iannis Xenakis.

  17. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Murray Perahia

    Tom Service reflects on the career of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

  18. George Benjamin, Daniele Gatti, Ravel and Decadence

    Composer George Benjamin talks to Tom Service about his latest opera, Written on the Skin.

  19. Carousel, Jussi Bjorling and Pauline Oliveros

    Tom Service learns about a new production of Carousel at Opera North.

  20. Philip Glass, Gerald Barry, Lothar Koenigs, The Trumpet

    Tom Service talks to Philip Glass about his opera Einstein on the Beach.

  21. Nikolaus Harnoncourt

    Recorded in 2012, an interview with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who died on Saturday.

  22. Kathleen Ferrier, Colin Currie, Duke Ellington, & Benjamin Britten

    Tom Service on Kathleen Ferrier, Colin Currie, Duke Ellington & Benjamin Britten.

  23. The Birth of Opera, Spira Mirabilis

    Tom Service travels to Florence to discover more about the birth of opera.

  24. Peter Gelb, The Rake's Progress, Judith Weir, Carlos Kleiber Biography

    Tom Service meets Peter Gelb, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

  25. Music Nation Preview

    Suzy Klein explores the cultural past, present and future of the Olympics.

  26. Anne-Sophie Mutter, Rusalka, Jewry in Music

    Tom Service meets acclaimed violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.

  27. Richard Goode, Szymanowski Tribute

    Richard Goode, Szymanowski, Sir Anthony Pappano & Coleridge-Taylor's opera Thelma

  28. The Death of Klinghoffer, Charles Munch, Christopher Fox

    Tom Service on John Adams's The Death of Klinghoffer and the legacy of Charles Munch.

  29. Andr谩s Schiff plays Brahms, Delius, Stephen Hough and Dallapiccola

    Tom Service explores the life and music of Delius 150 years after his birth.

  30. Prokofiev: Man of the People?, Betrothal in Monastery, Jonathan Biss, Sibelius

    Tom Service previews a Prokofiev festival in London and a performance of an opera by him.

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