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Season finale
Tom looks over this past year in music.
In the community
New works by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Music Day
Tom meets Sir Simon Rattle
The Orpheus myth
The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters.
Music, Life and Changing Times
Presented by Kate Molleson.
Cole, Harry and the masks of theatre
The Mask of Orpheus at ENO, The Letters of Cole Porter, and music charities in the UK.
New York Special
Tom Service visits New York, a vibrant, breathing city with a rich culture and history.
The essence of musical personality
Alison Balsom, music criticism in the digital era, and photos from Ronnie Scott's.
The Future
Odaline de la Martinez, Alfred Brendel, and a lost work by Vaughan Williams
Cosmic Curiosity
Michael Tilson Thomas, music and 30 years of the Berlin Wall's fall, and Paul Hillier
Mind, body and soul
Cultural Choices and Musical Chalices...
Tom talks to pianist Yuja Wang and conductor Jaap van Zweden.
Shifting cultures and musical crucibles
Australian Modernism in the 60s and 70s; Jonathan Dove; Lilian Hochhauser
Jonathan Dove, Australian Modernism, Lilian Hochhauser
Angela Gheorghiu, Mariss Jansons, La Traviata, Rossini
The 21st century comes of age
The World's Largest Island
Kate Molleson visits Greenland to explore the role of music for its communities today.
Internationalism
Kate speaks to Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Chris Watson, Alasdair Roberts and Laura Tunbridge
The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters
Musical communion
Choreographic, operatic and symphonic revelations
Tom Service speaks to Carlo Rizzi, Sir Mark Elder, and four leading conductors
Revelations
Tom Service celebrates Opera Rara at 50 and Beethoven's symphonies at the Barbican.
Roger Norrington
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and the Oscar nominees for best original scores.
Going with the flow
Kate Molleson discusses jazz legend Dave Brubeck and we hear from violinist Tasmin Little
The secret life of musical instruments
Fidelio
Game-changers
Singer Lise Davidsen, Alice Farnham on women conductors, Glass's Einstein on the Beach.
Vikingur Olafsson, ENO Figaro, Prokofiev operas
Musical communication