Music Matters Episodes Available now
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.
