Music Matters

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

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Stockhausen: Cosmic Prophet
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Stockhausen's legacy, Baudelaire, and the Hum of the World.
11 May 2019,44 mins
Being seen, being heard
Kate Molleson talks to Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla. Music fan clubs. Folk singer Josephine Foster
04 May 2019,44 mins
Serious fun
Singer Rosalind Plowright, 18th-century Scottish music theorists and a biography of Dukas.
27 Apr 2019,44 mins
Transgender opera singers, harpsichords and Billy Budd
Sara Mohr-Pietsch speaks to transgender singers from around the world.
20 Apr 2019,44 mins
Michael Tippett and Ukrainian polyphony
A new biography on composer Michael Tippett and the Ukrainian polyphony project.
13 Apr 2019,44 mins
Music without compromise
Tom meets Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili.
06 Apr 2019,44 mins
Music Matters Lab at Free Thinking
Kate Molleson gets emotional at the Free Thinking Festival for this live special.
30 Mar 2019,44 mins
Spring lambs, blue sheep
Music Matters marks the beginning of spring.
23 Mar 2019,44 mins
Music, Architecture and Activism
Conductor Jessica Cottis, musical activism and how music changes in different spaces.
16 Mar 2019,44 mins
Hans Keller 100 and International Women's Day
Hans Keller and International Women's Day.
09 Mar 2019,44 mins
Tales of the popular
Kate Molleson visits Sir Karl Jenkins at his studio.
02 Mar 2019,44 mins
Hel's Deep and Mountains High
The Monstrous Child, composer Anthony Payne, piano duos, yoga, mountains and gods.
23 Feb 2019,44 mins
Berlioz – the Ultimate Romantic
A reappraisal of the French composer on the 150th anniversary of his death.
16 Feb 2019,44 mins
Changing times, changing identities
Tom speaks to Emma Kirkby. Also, the impact of Brexit on musicians. And music in convents.
09 Feb 2019,44 mins
Spirit and Invention
Conductor and violinist Reinhard Goebel and Gillian Moore's new book The Rite of Spring.
02 Feb 2019,44 mins
Fire and ice
From new compositions inspired by the icy poles to the fiery emotion of Ermonela Jaho.
26 Jan 2019,44 mins
Amo amas amat-eur Orchestras! And Arnold in the US
Soprano Diana Damrau, amateur orchestras and Schoenberg's correspondence
19 Jan 2019,44 mins
The tentacles of freedom
Composer Du Yun and Opera in the Jazz Age.
12 Jan 2019,44 mins
Christmas in the Fens
Kate Molleson visits the Fens to explore some of the music-making going at Christmas
22 Dec 2018,44 mins
A (music) lover's guide, and Venus unwrapped
A new book for classical music lovers.
15 Dec 2018,44 mins
Delius and the Sound of Place
Delius and the Sound of Place, and conductor Daniel Harding
08 Dec 2018,44 mins
Bohemia, Berio, and Bowing Out
Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa plus getting inside Luciano Berio's Sinfonia
01 Dec 2018,44 mins
Punching Above Your Weight: Bassoons and Boxing, Dundee and Helsinki
Punching Above Your Weight: Bassoons and Boxing, Dundee and Helsinki.
24 Nov 2018,44 mins
Musical Stories of Past and Present
Claron McFadden, and gender representation in UK jazz.
17 Nov 2018,44 mins
Memory, Loss, and Music’s Universal Power
New music for a century of Armistice days and 350 years of Francois Couperin
10 Nov 2018,44 mins
Dangerous Futures, Dangerous Dances
Violinist Baiba Skride, and a new score of Ravel's Bolero.
03 Nov 2018,44 mins
Whisky, Beethoven and Crocodiles
Tom Service discusses Beethoven with Angela Hewitt, and crocodiles with Felix Stroeckens
27 Oct 2018,44 mins
Hidden Voices and Blue Force Fields
Sarah Connolly and the Aldridge sisters
20 Oct 2018,44 mins
The Power of Performance
Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, and Mark Wigglesworth on the art of conducting.
13 Oct 2018,44 mins
Passion, Masks and Parry
Tom Service meets Pascal Dusapin, as his new dance-opera Passion tours the country.
06 Oct 2018,44 mins