Music Matters Episodes Available now
State of mind: music and mental health
Tom Service explores issues of mental health for professional musicians.
Immersed in Glass
Including the music of Philip Glass and 50 years since the 1967 Sexual Offences Act.
John Adams: An American optimist
Tom Service interviews composer and conductor John Adams. Plus Brexit and the arts.
Hamburg's new concert hall
Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Hamburg's new concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie.
Breaking Free - the minds that changed music
Tom Service discusses the legacy of the Second Viennese School.
Milton Babbitt: Changing the way we think about music
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to conductor Daniele Gatti.
Christa Ludwig: from song to silence
Retired mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig talks to Tom Service about her life in music.
Busoni: music鈥檚 forgotten visionary
Tom Service visits Berlin to explore the life and work of Busoni.
Beats behind bars
Mark-Anthony Turnage on prison music, plus Joseph Calleja, Ingo Metzmacher, and birdsong.
The sound of mortality
Pianist Jonathan Biss on late works, Fiona Maddocks on music 'to carry you through'.