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Music Matters Episodes

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    Serious fun

    Singer Rosalind Plowright, 18th-century Scottish music theorists and a biography of Dukas.

  2. Transgender opera singers, harpsichords and Billy Budd

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch speaks to transgender singers from around the world.

  3. Michael Tippett and Ukrainian polyphony

    A new biography on composer Michael Tippett and the Ukrainian polyphony project.

  4. Music without compromise

    Tom meets Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili.

  5. Music Matters Lab at Free Thinking

    Kate Molleson gets emotional at the Free Thinking Festival for this live special.

  6. Spring lambs, blue sheep

    Music Matters marks the beginning of spring.

  7. Music, Architecture and Activism

    Conductor Jessica Cottis, musical activism and how music changes in different spaces.

  8. Hans Keller 100 and International Women's Day

    Hans Keller and International Women's Day.

  9. Tales of the popular

    Kate Molleson visits Sir Karl Jenkins at his studio.

  10. Hel's Deep and Mountains High

    The Monstrous Child, composer Anthony Payne, piano duos, yoga, mountains and gods.

  11. Berlioz – the Ultimate Romantic

    A reappraisal of the French composer on the 150th anniversary of his death.

  12. Changing times, changing identities

    Tom speaks to Emma Kirkby. Also, the impact of Brexit on musicians. And music in convents.

  13. Spirit and Invention

    Conductor and violinist Reinhard Goebel and Gillian Moore's new book The Rite of Spring.

  14. Fire and ice

    From new compositions inspired by the icy poles to the fiery emotion of Ermonela Jaho.

  15. Amo amas amat-eur Orchestras! And Arnold in the US

    Soprano Diana Damrau, amateur orchestras and Schoenberg's correspondence

  16. The tentacles of freedom

    Composer Du Yun and Opera in the Jazz Age.

  17. Christmas in the Fens

    Kate Molleson visits the Fens to explore some of the music-making going at Christmas

  18. A (music) lover's guide, and Venus unwrapped

    A new book for classical music lovers.

  19. Delius and the Sound of Place

    Delius and the Sound of Place, and conductor Daniel Harding

  20. Bohemia, Berio, and Bowing Out

    Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa plus getting inside Luciano Berio's Sinfonia

  21. Punching Above Your Weight: Bassoons and Boxing, Dundee and Helsinki

    Punching Above Your Weight: Bassoons and Boxing, Dundee and Helsinki.

  22. Musical Stories of Past and Present

    Claron McFadden, and gender representation in UK jazz.

  23. Memory, Loss, and Music’s Universal Power

    New music for a century of Armistice days and 350 years of Francois Couperin

  24. Dangerous Futures, Dangerous Dances

    Violinist Baiba Skride, and a new score of Ravel's Bolero.

  25. Whisky, Beethoven and Crocodiles

    Tom Service discusses Beethoven with Angela Hewitt, and crocodiles with Felix Stroeckens

  26. Hidden Voices and Blue Force Fields

    Sarah Connolly and the Aldridge sisters

  27. The Power of Performance

    Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, and Mark Wigglesworth on the art of conducting.

  28. Passion, Masks and Parry

    Tom Service meets Pascal Dusapin, as his new dance-opera Passion tours the country.

  29. Composers - What planet are they on?

    Tom Service meets composer Joan Tower, and hears a new musical Planets inspired by Holst.

  30. Hearing Voices

    Jocelyn Pook, Edinburgh's new concert hall, and mudlarking on the Thames

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