Music Matters Episodes Episode guide
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Lars Vogt, King Lear, Louis Andriessen
Lars Vogt on fighting cancer. Grange Festival's King Lear. Tribute to Louis Andriessen.
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Politics, possibilities and epiphanies
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Jessie Montgomery, Vitali Alekseenok and video-game opera.
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Sensory deprivation, musical revelation
Caroline Shaw, Franz Welser-Most and Grant Llewellyn.
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Musical Strength
The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters.
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Coventry UK City of Culture 2021
Kate Molleson celebrates musical life in Coventry as UK City of Culture 2021.
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Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax
Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax join Tom Service to talk about their new Beethoven recording.
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Music in the Moment
Tom Service and pianist Stephen Hough discuss living in the moment during performance
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Breaking rules, making new forms...
Leif Ove Andsnes on Mozart. ROH hyper reality opera inspired by Shakespeare.
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Rhythm and tone: Dennis Brain, Anthony Payne and music’s healing nature
Tom Service looks at the influence of Dennis Brain in his centenary year.
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Musical Ecosystems
Kate Molleson hears from violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and speaks to Benjamin Lapidus.
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The Conductors' Edition
The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters.
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Stravinsky 50 - Reinventing Stravinsky!
Tom Service explores how the music of Stravinsky continues to resonate in today's world.
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A life in music
The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters.
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Renaud Capuçon, Cecilia McDowall, Michael Spitzer
French violinist Renaud Capuçon talks about his new recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto.
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Music under threat in Kabul
The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters
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The fierce joys of Spring
The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters.
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Celebrating a Century of Astor Piazzolla
Using archive, family members and musicians who played with him. Also Isabelle Faust.
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Sandrine Piau, Geraldine Mucha, Steven Isserlis
Tom Service speaks to soprano Sandrine Piau and cellist Steven Isserlis.
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Anne QueffΓ©lec
Pianist Anne Queffelec; a book on France and trauma during wars; the Endellion Quartet.
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How music sculpts memory
The relationships between the crafts of porcelain and contemporary composition.
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Uighur culture, Richard Tognetti, business models
Richard Tognetti. New relationship musicians-agents? The book Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam.
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Girl power in the 1940s
The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters
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Jackie Kay, Meredith Monk and Virtual Nature
Kate Molleson talks to Meredith Monk, plus Jackie Kay on blues pioneer Bessie Smith.
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New Music Innovators from today... and the 19th Century
Pianist Piotr Anderszewski. Songs of Fanny Hensel. Maxim Vengerov education masterclasses.
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Democracy from Wynton Marsalis
The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters.
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Light at the end of the tunnel
The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters.
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Music and myth, silence and AI
A book on Arvo Pärt. Luminosity in music. Beethoven's curtailed celebrations.
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The Lark Ascending
The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters
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Creating music in isolation
Benjamin Grosvenor and the prophetic voice of Glenn Gould.
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The Human Connection
The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters.