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Music Matters Episodes

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    Politics, possibilities and epiphanies

    Anne-Sophie Mutter, Jessie Montgomery, Vitali Alekseenok and video-game opera.

  2. Sensory deprivation, musical revelation

    Caroline Shaw, Franz Welser-Most and Grant Llewellyn.

  3. Musical Strength

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

  4. Coventry UK City of Culture 2021

    Kate Molleson celebrates musical life in Coventry as UK City of Culture 2021.

  5. Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax

    Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax join Tom Service to talk about their new Beethoven recording.

  6. Music in the Moment

    Tom Service and pianist Stephen Hough discuss living in the moment during performance

  7. Breaking rules, making new forms...

    Leif Ove Andsnes on Mozart. ROH hyper reality opera inspired by Shakespeare.

  8. 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.

  9. Musical Ecosystems

    Kate Molleson hears from violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and speaks to Benjamin Lapidus.

  10. The Conductors' Edition

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

  11. Stravinsky 50 - Reinventing Stravinsky!

    Tom Service explores how the music of Stravinsky continues to resonate in today's world.

  12. A life in music

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

  13. Renaud Capuçon, Cecilia McDowall, Michael Spitzer

    French violinist Renaud Capuçon talks about his new recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto.

  14. Music under threat in Kabul

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

  15. The fierce joys of Spring

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

  16. Celebrating a Century of Astor Piazzolla

    Using archive, family members and musicians who played with him. Also Isabelle Faust.

  17. Sandrine Piau, Geraldine Mucha, Steven Isserlis

    Tom Service speaks to soprano Sandrine Piau and cellist Steven Isserlis.

  18. Anne QueffΓ©lec

    Pianist Anne Queffelec; a book on France and trauma during wars; the Endellion Quartet.

  19. How music sculpts memory

    The relationships between the crafts of porcelain and contemporary composition.

  20. Uighur culture, Richard Tognetti, business models

    Richard Tognetti. New relationship musicians-agents? The book Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam.

  21. Girl power in the 1940s

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

  22. Jackie Kay, Meredith Monk and Virtual Nature

    Kate Molleson talks to Meredith Monk, plus Jackie Kay on blues pioneer Bessie Smith.

  23. New Music Innovators from today... and the 19th Century

    Pianist Piotr Anderszewski. Songs of Fanny Hensel. Maxim Vengerov education masterclasses.

  24. Democracy from Wynton Marsalis

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

  25. Light at the end of the tunnel

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

  26. Music and myth, silence and AI

    A book on Arvo Pärt. Luminosity in music. Beethoven's curtailed celebrations.

  27. The Lark Ascending

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

  28. Creating music in isolation

    Benjamin Grosvenor and the prophetic voice of Glenn Gould.

  29. The Human Connection

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

  30. Sam Amidon; US-USSR ballet exchange; music streaming; lockdown postcards

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

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