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Music Matters Episodes

  1. 03/11/2007

    Petroc Trelawny explores the border territory between literature and music.

  2. 20/10/2007

    Tom Service meets conductor John Eliot Gardiner and explores the work of Korngold.

  3. 40th Anniversary Special

    Tom Service listens back and investigates how Radio 3 has reacted to the outside world.

  4. Portugal Special Edition

    Tom Service explores the part classical music plays in Portuguese culture today.

  5. 15/09/2007

    Tom Service talks to composer James MacMillan about his new folk tale opera The Sacrifice.

  6. UK Disability History Month, Maria Callas

    Tom Service learns about adaptive instruments, and celebrates Maria Callas's centenary.

  7. The Future

    Odaline de la Martinez, Alfred Brendel, and a lost work by Vaughan Williams

  8. Sound and Nature

    Tom Service explores the sound world of nature.

  9. Shifting cultures and musical crucibles

    Australian Modernism in the 60s and 70s; Jonathan Dove; Lilian Hochhauser

  10. Nikolaus Harnoncourt

    Suzy Klein presents a rare interview with Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

  11. Music Matters at Free Thinking: Rule-breakers in classical music

    A live debate with Kevin Volans, Stevie Wishart, John Butt and Nicholas Baragwanath.

  12. Milton Babbitt: Changing the way we think about music

    American composer Milton Babbitt, 19th-Century conductor Hans Richter plus Daniele Gatti

  13. Mark-Anthony Turnage & Norma Waterson

    Kate Molleson talks to Mark-Anthony Turnage & Norma Waterson

  14. Lang Lang

    Tom Service talks to Lang Lang about his piano heroes and his involvement in education.

  15. Julian Anderson; Kenneth MacMillan tribute

    An interview with composer Julian Anderson; reflections on choreographer Kenneth MacMillan

  16. John Wilson

    Tom Service meets John Wilson, a champion of both British and American music.

  17. Internationalism

    Kate speaks to Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Chris Watson, Alasdair Roberts and Laura Tunbridge

  18. International Women's Day celebrations

    Kate Molleson presents an edition for International Women's Day.

  19. Dennis Brain, Anthony Payne, and music’s healing nature.

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

  20. Daniel Barenboim and Marin Alsop

    Tom Service talks to Daniel Barenboim and Marin Alsop meets Sylvia Caduff

  21. Cultural Choices and Musical Chalices...

    Jaap van Zweden; Yuja Wang; Ellie Wilson; post-election landscape.

  22. Climate special

    Tom Service surveys the musical world's creative response to climate issues

  23. Choreographic, operatic and symphonic revelations

    Tom Service speaks to Carlo Rizzi, Sir Mark Elder, and four leading conductors

  24. 12/09/2022

    The latest news and features from the classical music world

  25. 07/04/2018

    Radio 3's flagship classical music magazine programme.

  26. 02/05/2020

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

  27. 02/01/2021

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

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