Ranked #1
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
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43mins
Ranked #2
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
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43mins
Ranked #3
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
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43mins
Ranked #4
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
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42mins
Ranked #5
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
18 May 2019
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44mins
Ranked #6
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
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44mins
Ranked #7
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
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44mins
Ranked #8
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
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42mins
Ranked #9
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
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43mins
Ranked #10
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
17 Jun 2017
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43mins
Ranked #11
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
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43mins
Ranked #12
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
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43mins
Ranked #13
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
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43mins
Ranked #14
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
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43mins
Ranked #15
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
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44mins
Ranked #16
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
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43mins
Ranked #17
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
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43mins
Ranked #18
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
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44mins
Ranked #19
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
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42mins
Ranked #20
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
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43mins