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Music Matters Episodes

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    Season finale

    Tom looks over this past year in music.

  2. Obsessions

    Sara Mohr Pietsch meets oud player Khyam Allami.

  3. Music, roots and heritage

    A tale of two composers: Daniel Kidane and Erika Fox.

  4. AI and the future of music

    A special edition exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on music.

  5. Passing the music on

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch reports on the decline of music A levels, and pianist Sulamita Aronovsky

  6. Welcome to the stage

    Kate explores the life and legacy of Alma Mahler

  7. Pekka Kuusisto

    Tom meets Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto.

  8. Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all

    Tom meets conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Composer Kaija Saariaho inspired by TS Eliot.

  9. Stephen Kovacevich, Thomas Ades and Howard Skempton

    Tom talks to pianist Stephen Kovacevich and composer Thomas Ades.

  10. Stockhausen: Cosmic Prophet

    Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Stockhausen's legacy, Baudelaire, and the Hum of the World.

  11. Being seen, being heard

    Kate Molleson talks to Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla. Music fan clubs. Folk singer Josephine Foster

  12. Serious fun

    Singer Rosalind Plowright, 18th-century Scottish music theorists and a biography of Dukas.

  13. Transgender opera singers, harpsichords and Billy Budd

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch speaks to transgender singers from around the world.

  14. Michael Tippett and Ukrainian polyphony

    A new biography on composer Michael Tippett and the Ukrainian polyphony project.

  15. Music without compromise

    Tom meets Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili.

  16. Music Matters Lab at Free Thinking

    Kate Molleson gets emotional at the Free Thinking Festival for this live special.

  17. Spring lambs, blue sheep

    Music Matters marks the beginning of spring.

  18. Music, Architecture and Activism

    Conductor Jessica Cottis, musical activism and how music changes in different spaces.

  19. Hans Keller 100 and International Women's Day

    Hans Keller and International Women's Day.

  20. Tales of the popular

    Kate Molleson visits Sir Karl Jenkins at his studio.

  21. Hel's Deep and Mountains High

    The Monstrous Child, composer Anthony Payne, piano duos, yoga, mountains and gods.

  22. Berlioz 鈥� the Ultimate Romantic

    A reappraisal of the French composer on the 150th anniversary of his death.

  23. Changing times, changing identities

    Tom speaks to Emma Kirkby. Also, the impact of Brexit on musicians. And music in convents.

  24. Spirit and Invention

    Conductor and violinist Reinhard Goebel and Gillian Moore's new book The Rite of Spring.

  25. Fire and ice

    From new compositions inspired by the icy poles to the fiery emotion of Ermonela Jaho.

  26. Amo amas amat-eur Orchestras! And Arnold in the US

    Soprano Diana Damrau, amateur orchestras and Schoenberg's correspondence

  27. The tentacles of freedom

    Composer Du Yun and Opera in the Jazz Age.

  28. Christmas in the Fens

    Kate Molleson visits the Fens to explore some of the music-making going at Christmas

  29. A (music) lover's guide, and Venus unwrapped

    A new book for classical music lovers.

  30. Delius and the Sound of Place

    Delius and the Sound of Place, and conductor Daniel Harding

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