The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters
Radio 3,·507 episodes
Petroc Trelawny interviews harpsichordist and conductor Trevor Pinnock.
18 Jun 2016,·45 mins
Roger Scruton talks to Tom Service about his new Wagner book, The Ring of Truth.
11 Jun 2016,·45 mins
Tom Service meets ENO's Daniel Kramer. Plus Anna Beer on her book on female composers.
04 Jun 2016,·45 mins
Tom Service is in conversation with renowned composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.
28 May 2016,·45 mins
Tom Service with a portrait of Enescu. Plus Philip Venables on his opera 4.48 Psychosis.
21 May 2016,·45 mins
Tom Service explores Satie, the man and his music, on the 150th anniversary of his birth.
14 May 2016,·45 mins
Tom Service explores Max Reger's music and hears from composer and writer Peter Dickinson.
07 May 2016,·45 mins
Tom Service visits Opera North for the premiere of Pleasure and interviews Mark Simpson.
30 Apr 2016,·45 mins
Tom Service on the music in Shakespeare's plays and Shakespearean music from BBC archives.
23 Apr 2016,·45 mins
Tom Service talks to guitarist John Williams and reviews a memoir of Sviatoslav Richter.
16 Apr 2016,·45 mins
Tom Service interviews composer Michael Finnissy and discusses Alberto Ginastera.
09 Apr 2016,·45 mins
Presented by Petroc Trelawny, with Irish mezzo-soprano Ann Murray in conversation.
02 Apr 2016,·45 mins
Including a visit to Streetwise Opera, a book about Bach and composer Errollyn Wallen.
26 Mar 2016,·45 mins
Tom Service with a tribute to the composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
19 Mar 2016,·45 mins
Petroc Trelawny travels to Naples to explore the radical 16th-century composer Gesualdo.
12 Mar 2016,·45 mins
Tom Service meets Canadian conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin.
05 Mar 2016,·45 mins
Tom Service meets trumpeter Hakan Hardenberger and explores Philip Glass's Akhnaten.
27 Feb 2016,·45 mins
Tom Service profiles composer Gyorgy Kurtag and hears from pianist Boris Giltburg.
20 Feb 2016,·45 mins
Lang Lang talks to Tom Service about his pianistic heroes and his involvement in education
13 Feb 2016,·45 mins
Tom Service presents a special edition on Welsh musical life.
06 Feb 2016,·45 mins
With Tom Service. Including a portrait of Emmanuel Chabrier and Folk Connections.
30 Jan 2016,·45 mins
Tom Service presents a portrait of Henri Dutilleux on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
23 Jan 2016,·45 mins
Tom Service talks to composer Morton Subotnick. Plus Scottish Opera and Ilan Volkov.
16 Jan 2016,·45 mins
Tom Service presents a tribute to French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez.
09 Jan 2016,·45 mins
Petroc Trelawny explores musical responses to the dark northern winters in Tromso, Norway.
19 Dec 2015,·45 mins
Presented by Tom Service. Including books on opera characters and world music traditions.
12 Dec 2015,·45 mins
Tom Service travels to Finland in search of the real Sibelius and his landscapes.
05 Dec 2015,·45 mins
Tom Service presents an extended interview with composer Alexander Goehr.
28 Nov 2015,·45 mins
Tom Service is joined by schools minister Nick Gibb and conductor James Gaffigan.
21 Nov 2015,·45 mins
Tom Service interviews composer Georg Friedrich Haas and discusses music for video games.
14 Nov 2015,·45 mins
