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Music Matters Episodes

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    Dinu Lipatti: a life at the piano

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews conductor Simone Young. Plus a tribute to Dinu Lipatti.

  2. Daniel Barenboim: 'The ABC of music-making is listening'

    Featuring conductors Marin Alsop, Sylvia Caduff and Daniel Barenboim.

  3. ENO premieres Wigglesworth's The Winter's Tale

    Tom Service talks to the creators of a new opera based on Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.

  4. At home with Maurizio Pollini

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews Maurizio Pollini. Plus the centenary of George Malcolm.

  5. Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla at CBSO

    Tom Service visits Symphony Hall in Birmingham to speak to conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla

  6. State of mind: music and mental health

    Tom Service explores issues of mental health for professional musicians.

  7. Immersed in Glass

    Including the music of Philip Glass and 50 years since the 1967 Sexual Offences Act.

  8. John Adams: An American optimist

    Tom Service interviews composer and conductor John Adams. Plus Brexit and the arts.

  9. Hamburg's new concert hall

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Hamburg's new concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie.

  10. Breaking Free - the minds that changed music

    Tom Service discusses the legacy of the Second Viennese School.

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

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to conductor Daniele Gatti.

  12. Christa Ludwig: from song to silence

    Retired mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig talks to Tom Service about her life in music.

  13. Busoni: music鈥檚 forgotten visionary

    Tom Service visits Berlin to explore the life and work of Busoni.

  14. Beats behind bars

    Mark-Anthony Turnage on prison music, plus Joseph Calleja, Ingo Metzmacher, and birdsong.

  15. The sound of mortality

    Pianist Jonathan Biss on late works, Fiona Maddocks on music 'to carry you through'.

  16. How will the arts respond to Trump?

    Donald Trump's cultural credentials, Barrie Kosky's The Nose, and Indian classical music.

  17. Vienna: City of Music

    Tom Service presents an edition from Vienna with music historian David Wyn Jones.

  18. John Cage in letters

    Letters by John Cage, a house inspired by Satie, and Hartmann's 1930s protest opera.

  19. Classical Music鈥檚 Diversity Deficit: BAME Composers

    Tom Service discusses African-American composer Julius Eastman and diversity in music.

  20. Kristjan Jarvi, Viola Tunnard and Sally Beamish

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch meets Kristjan Jarvi and Sally Beamish, and remembers Viola Tunnard.

  21. Neville Marriner tribute, Matthew Kaner in Lucerne, Paul Robertson remembered

    Tom Service presents a tribute to the late Sir Neville Marriner.

  22. Sound Frontiers: Music and Technology

    Tom Service explores technological innovations in music for composers and performers.

  23. Sound Frontiers: Who Cares If You Listen?

    Tom Service considers the relationship between modern composers and audiences in 1946.

  24. Britten Books, Ruhrtriennale Festival

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch discusses two books about Britten. Plus a visit to the Ruhrtriennale.

  25. Cole Porter, Music News Round-Up, Housman

    Petroc Trelawny with a portrait of Cole Porter and a round-up 2015-16's big music stories.

  26. Herbert Blomstedt

    Tom Service talks to Herbert Blomstedt, a celebrated conductor of Romantic repertoire.

  27. St Magnus Festival

    Tom Service visits the St Magnus International Festival.

  28. Trevor Pinnock Interview

    Petroc Trelawny interviews harpsichordist and conductor Trevor Pinnock.

  29. Roger Scruton, Sonic Journey, Sound House

    Roger Scruton talks to Tom Service about his new Wagner book, The Ring of Truth.

  30. Daniel Kramer, Female Composers, James Rhodes

    Tom Service meets ENO's Daniel Kramer. Plus Anna Beer on her book on female composers.

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