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Music Matters Episodes Episode guide

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Tom Service is in conversation with renowned composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Enescu, Crumb and Feldman, Philip Venables Opera

Tom Service with a portrait of Enescu. Plus Philip Venables on his opera 4.48 Psychosis.
Erik Satie at 150

Tom Service explores Satie, the man and his music, on the 150th anniversary of his birth.
Max Reger, Peter Dickinson

Tom Service explores Max Reger's music and hears from composer and writer Peter Dickinson.
Pleasure, Symphony Hall Birmingham

Tom Service visits Opera North for the premiere of Pleasure and interviews Mark Simpson.
Sounds of Shakespeare

Tom Service on the music in Shakespeare's plays and Shakespearean music from 大象传媒 archives.
John Williams, Sviatoslav Richter Book

Tom Service talks to guitarist John Williams and reviews a memoir of Sviatoslav Richter.
Michael Finnissy, Ginastera, Sustainably Sourced Instruments

Tom Service interviews composer Michael Finnissy and discusses Alberto Ginastera.
Ann Murray, Stalin's Music Prize

Presented by Petroc Trelawny, with Irish mezzo-soprano Ann Murray in conversation.
Jerusalem, Bach's Vocal Works, Streetwise Opera, Errollyn Wallen

Including a visit to Streetwise Opera, a book about Bach and composer Errollyn Wallen.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

Tom Service with a tribute to the composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gesualdo 450, Vaughan Williams

Petroc Trelawny travels to Naples to explore the radical 16th-century composer Gesualdo.
Yannick Nezet-Seguin, International Women's Day

Tom Service meets Canadian conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin.
Hakan Hardenberger, Akhnaten, Beethoven, ENO Chorus

Tom Service meets trumpeter Hakan Hardenberger and explores Philip Glass's Akhnaten.
Kurtag at 90, Boris Giltburg, Glyndebourne Youth Opera

Tom Service profiles composer Gyorgy Kurtag and hears from pianist Boris Giltburg.
Lang Lang

Lang Lang talks to Tom Service about his pianistic heroes and his involvement in education
Welsh Musical Life

Tom Service presents a special edition on Welsh musical life.
Folk Connections; Chabrier

With Tom Service. Including a portrait of Emmanuel Chabrier and Folk Connections.
Dutilleux 100

Tom Service presents a portrait of Henri Dutilleux on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Morton Subotnick, The Lives of George Frideric Handel, Scottish Opera, Ilan Volkov

Tom Service talks to composer Morton Subotnick. Plus Scottish Opera and Ilan Volkov.
Pierre Boulez

Tom Service presents a tribute to French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez.
Northern Lights: Tromso

Petroc Trelawny explores musical responses to the dark northern winters in Tromso, Norway.
Books on Opera and World Music, Matthew Herbert

Presented by Tom Service. Including books on opera characters and world music traditions.
Northern Lights: Sibelius 150

Tom Service travels to Finland in search of the real Sibelius and his landscapes.
Alexander Goehr

Tom Service presents an extended interview with composer Alexander Goehr.
Nick Gibb, Robert Craft Tribute, Frank Bridge Book, James Gaffigan

Tom Service is joined by schools minister Nick Gibb and conductor James Gaffigan.
Georg Friedrich Haas, Music for Video Games

Tom Service interviews composer Georg Friedrich Haas and discusses music for video games.
Rule-Breakers in Classical Music

From Sage Gateshead, Tom Service hosts a debate about rule-breakers in classical music.
The Moderate Soprano, Mark Wigglesworth, Stravinsky

Tom Service meets Mark Wigglesworth, the new music director of English National Opera.
Roger Woodward, Music Theatre in Britain

Tom Service is joined by Australian pianist Roger Woodward.