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Music Matters

The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters

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Chicago: Yo-Yo Ma and Riccardo Muti

Chicago: Yo-Yo Ma and Riccardo Muti

Tom Service visits Chicago to talk to two major figures at the heart of the city's musical and cultural life: cellist Yo... Read more

16 Jun 2018

43mins

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Sir Andras Schiff, BCMG at 30, Tom Phillips, Netia Jones, This is Rattle

Sir Andras Schiff, BCMG at 30, Tom Phillips, Netia Jones, This is Rattle

Tom speaks to Sir Andras Schiff, one of the world's greatest living pianists and also one of the most thoughtful talkers... Read more

16 Sep 2017

43mins

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Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson

Tom Service meets American composer, and multi-media artist Laurie Anderson to find how music and language interacts in ... Read more

14 Apr 2018

43mins

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Bernstein's New York

Bernstein's New York

Tom Service travels to New York City to discover if Bernstein's musical and social legacy continues to echo through the ... Read more

25 Aug 2018

42mins

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Stephen Kovacevich, Thomas Ades and Howard Skempton

Stephen Kovacevich, Thomas Ades and Howard Skempton

Tom meets American pianist Stephen Kovacevich, who candidly discusses stage fright as well as the dark side of Chopin; h... Read more

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Music on the Catalonia crisis; Book on Creative Brain; our musical lives on the internet; and Uri CaineDD

Music on the Catalonia crisis; Book on Creative Brain; our musical lives on the internet; and Uri CaineDD

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch In the wake of the political crisis that risks breaking up Spain and Catalonia, Sara asks... Read more

4 Nov 2017

44mins

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Pekka Kuusisto

Pekka Kuusisto

Tom meets the acclaimed Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto (pictured), ahead of performances in the UK with the Aurora Orc... Read more

1 Jun 2019

44mins

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Punching Above Your Weight: Bassoons and Boxing, Dundee and Helsinki

Punching Above Your Weight: Bassoons and Boxing, Dundee and Helsinki

Professional bassoonist and professional boxer Hannah Rankin explains the connections between the two disciplines. Tom ... Read more

24 Nov 2018

42mins

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Hel's Deep and Mountains High

Hel's Deep and Mountains High

We hear about The Monstrous Child and Hel, the heroine of Gavin Higgins and Francesca Simon’s new opera.Pianists Peter D... Read more

23 Feb 2019

43mins

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Grace Bumbry, Audra McDonald, Bill Fontana

Grace Bumbry, Audra McDonald, Bill Fontana

Sara Mohr-Pietsch meets two American singers - the opera icon Grace Bumbry and the broadway star Audra McDonald. Plus a ... Read more

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Season finale

Season finale

In the last programme of season, Tom Service is joined by composer Tansy Davies, theatre and opera director Adele Thomas... Read more

13 Jul 2019

43mins

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Christopher Purves

Christopher Purves

Tom Service talks to Christopher Purves, one of the most theatrically and musically vivid bass-baritones on opera stages... Read more

2 Jun 2018

43mins

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Bohemia, Berio, and Bowing Out

Bohemia, Berio, and Bowing Out

Young Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa talks to Tom Service about starting out, life at the helm of Bamberg Symphony Orchestr... Read more

1 Dec 2018

43mins

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Passion, Masks and Parry

Passion, Masks and Parry

Tom Service meets conductor Jonathan Nott to discuss his passion for music which began as a choral scholar in Worcester,... Read more

6 Oct 2018

43mins

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Is Iceland the world's most musical country?

Is Iceland the world's most musical country?

In this week's Music Matters Tom Service visits Reykjavik to ask whether Iceland is the most musical country in the worl... Read more

3 Feb 2018

44mins

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The Orpheus myth

The Orpheus myth

This week Kate Molleson talks to one of the great mezzo-sopranos, Alice Coote as she prepares for her role as Orpheus in... Read more

28 Sep 2019

43mins

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Memory, Loss, and Music’s Universal Power

Memory, Loss, and Music’s Universal Power

Marking the centenary of the Armistice, Tom Service talks to three composers writing music in response to war: Mira Cali... Read more

10 Nov 2018

43mins

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Whisky, Beethoven and Crocodiles

Whisky, Beethoven and Crocodiles

Tom Service discusses Beethoven at the keyboard with pianist Angela Hewitt, who is currently touring Beethoven's Emperor... Read more

27 Oct 2018

44mins

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Christophe Rousset

Christophe Rousset

Tom Service meets Christophe Rousset, the inspirational harpsichordist and conductor, founder of the period instrument e... Read more

24 Feb 2018

42mins

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Semyon Bychkov, New Music Biennial, Music and Landscape Architecture

Semyon Bychkov, New Music Biennial, Music and Landscape Architecture

Semyon Bychkov is sought after across the world as a conductor of all repertoire, but he has a particularly deep connect... Read more

1 Jul 2017

43mins

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