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Music Matters Episodes

  1. Alan Gilbert/Nico Muhly/Dalston Songs/Julia Jones

    Presented by Tom Service. Featuring conductor Alan Gilbert and composer Nico Muhly.

  2. Henze, Mahler and Beatboxing

    Tom Service talks to composers writing new works for a Mahler symphony cycle.

  3. Tchaikovsky Biography/George Benjamin/Faure Songs

    Tom Service and guests discuss a new biography of Tchaikovsky.

  4. A Midlands Christmas

    Tom Service travels across the English Midlands taking a snapshot of music making.

  5. Ten Years of Music

    Tom Service and guests examine musical highlights of the first decade of the 21st century.

  6. 05/12/2009

    Petroc Trelawny and guests review three new books about music.

  7. Purcell Weekend

    Tom Service on Purcell's influence on British musical life from the 20th century to today.

  8. Richard Rodney Bennett, Leonidas Kavakos

    Tom Service talks to composer Richard Rodney Bennett and violinist Leonidas Kavakos.

  9. 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Petroc Trelawny presents a special edition from Deutschlandradio Kultur in Berlin.

  10. Cape Town Opera/Erik Chisholm/Kevin Volans/Scottish Opera

    Including Cape Town Opera's UK debut, and the life of Scottish composer Erik Chisholm.

  11. Terry Riley In C / Bang on a Can / Steve Martland

    Featuring a profile of Bang on a Can, a new book on Terry Riley's In C and Steve Martland.

  12. Peter Maxwell Davies

    Tom Service travels to the Orkney Islands to visit composer Peter Maxwell Davies.

  13. Vasily Petrenko/Kenneth MacMillan/Martinu

    Tom Service meets Vasily Petrenko, principal conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

  14. Hungary

    Tom Service discovers how musical life in Hungary has changed since the fall of communism.

  15. Susan Graham/French piano music/Neville Cardus/Louis Braille

    Petroc Trelawny talks so mezzo-soprano Susan Graham about her passion for French music.

  16. Debussy, Saariaho and perceptions of classical music

    Tom Service talks to Kaija Saariaho about L'Amour de loin at English National Opera.

  17. John Potter/Leonard Bernstein/Thomas Hampson

    Tom Service talks to tenor John Potter about his book on the history of the tenor voice.

  18. Colin Davis

    Tom Service talks to Colin Davis and explores the links between music and morality.

  19. Haydn

    Tom Service examines our attitudes to Haydn with the help of Alfred Brendel among others.

  20. Penderecki

    Petroc Trelawny talks to Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki.

  21. Glyndebourne at 75

    Tom Service visits Glyndebourne to look at the role of the opera house in the 21st century

  22. Mendelssohn Weekend - Mendelssohn's Scotland

    Tom Service follows in the footsteps of Mendelssohn, who toured Scotland in 1829.

  23. Felicity Palmer and Anish Kapoor

    Tom Service talks to mezzo-soprano Felicity Palmer and visits the Brighton Festival 2009.

  24. Handel Week

    Petroc Trelawny and guests assess Handel's significance 250 years after his death.

  25. Imogen Cooper

    Tom Service talks to pianist Imogen Cooper and explores Cambridge's choral traditions.

  26. Simon Rattle

    Tom Service talks to Simon Rattle, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic.

  27. Purcell Weekend - In Search of Purcell

    Tom Service goes in search of English composer Henry Purcell.

  28. Music Matters

    Tom Service talks to conductor Roger Norrington. Plus pianist Richard Goode.

  29. MusicLearningLive!2009 Music Debate

    Tom Service chairs a debate from Manchester about the current issues in music education.

  30. Bryn Terfel

    Tom Service talks to Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel. Plus some of Yorkshire's lost pianos.

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