Music Matters Episodes Episode guide
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24/01/2009
Tom Service compares two dystopian visions of the world on stage in London opera houses.
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17/01/2009
Tom Service talks to pianist Stephen Hough and looks at the history of the Beggar's Opera.
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10/01/2009
With baritone Thomas Quasthoff, a Nielsen festival and an Opera North comic operetta.
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150th Anniversary of the Birth of Puccini
Tom Service presents a special programme marking the 150th anniversary of Puccini's birth.
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Review of 2008
Tom Service and guests look at some of the key cultural events of 2008.
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Tom Service
Presented by Tom Service. Including 100 years of Elliott Carter's correspondence.
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22/11/2008
With Tom Service. Including Fiona Shaw on directing her first opera.
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Music and the Brain
Tom Service presents a special programme on the connections between music and the brain.
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08/11/2008
Petroc Trelawny talks to Alexander Waugh about his book The House of Wittgenstein.
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01/11/2008
Tom Service discusses the impact of the 2008 US elections on the country's music scene.
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18/10/2008
Petroc Trelawny talks to leading American composer John Adams.
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11/10/2008
Tom Service travels to Ireland to explore the part classical music plays in Irish culture.
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04/10/2008
Tom Service meets young Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons.
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20/09/2008
With Tom Service. With a feature on new King's Place concert hall in London.
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13/09/2008
Tom Service visits the Lucerne Festival Academy in Switzerland. Plus Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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12/07/2008
Tom Service talks to composer Peter Eotvos about his new opera Love and Other Demons.
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05/07/2008
James Jolly explores the myths and the media image of conductor Herbert von Karajan.
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21/06/2008
Petroc Trelawny is in Beijing to look at Western classical music's place in China today.
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14/06/2008
Tom Service takes a look at the latest news in the musical world.
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07/06/2008
With iconic sitar player Ravin Shankar and a reassessment of Rimsky-Korsakov's legacy.
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24/05/2008
Looking at the place of classical music in fiction, plus Ian McEwan and Michael Berkeley.
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Music Matters
Investigating the complex relationship between Chopin and his homeland.
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10/05/2008
Featuring a rare interview with celebrated Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman.
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03/05/2008
With pianists Katia and Marielle Labeque and Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe.
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19/04/2008
Architect Renzo Piano dicusses his work on the first performance of Nono's Prometeo.
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12/04/2008
Simon Heffer explains the influence of war on the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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05/04/2008
Petroc Trelawny explores Harrison Birtwistle's new opera The Minotaur.
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22/03/2008
Tom Service talks to English baritone Thomas Allen about his career.
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15/03/2008
Petroc Trelawny seeks out one of Britain's best Wurlitzer organs.
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08/03/2008
Petroc Trelawny meets the Grand Union Youth Orchestra. Plus a book on 20th century music.
