Music Matters Episodes Available now
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Pekka Kuusisto
Tom meets Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto.
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Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all
Tom meets conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Composer Kaija Saariaho inspired by TS Eliot.
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Stephen Kovacevich, Thomas Ades and Howard Skempton
Tom talks to pianist Stephen Kovacevich and composer Thomas Ades.
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Stockhausen: Cosmic Prophet
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Stockhausen's legacy, Baudelaire, and the Hum of the World.
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Being seen, being heard
Kate Molleson talks to Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla. Music fan clubs. Folk singer Josephine Foster
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Serious fun
Singer Rosalind Plowright, 18th-century Scottish music theorists and a biography of Dukas.
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Transgender opera singers, harpsichords and Billy Budd
Sara Mohr-Pietsch speaks to transgender singers from around the world.
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Michael Tippett and Ukrainian polyphony
A new biography on composer Michael Tippett and the Ukrainian polyphony project.
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Music without compromise
Tom meets Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili.
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Music Matters Lab at Free Thinking
Kate Molleson gets emotional at the Free Thinking Festival for this live special.