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St Magnus Festival
Tom Service visits the St Magnus International Festival.
Herbert Blomstedt
Tom Service talks to Herbert Blomstedt, a celebrated conductor of Romantic repertoire.
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.
Britten Books, Ruhrtriennale Festival
Sara Mohr-Pietsch discusses two books about Britten. Plus a visit to the Ruhrtriennale.
Sound Frontiers: Who Cares If You Listen?
Tom Service considers the relationship between modern composers and audiences in 1946.
Sound Frontiers: Music and Technology
Tom Service explores technological innovations in music for composers and performers.
Neville Marriner tribute, Matthew Kaner in Lucerne, Paul Robertson remembered
Tom Service presents a tribute to the late Sir Neville Marriner.
Kristjan Jarvi, Viola Tunnard and Sally Beamish
Sara Mohr-Pietsch meets Kristjan Jarvi and Sally Beamish, and remembers Viola Tunnard.
Classical Music’s Diversity Deficit: BAME Composers
Tom Service discusses African-American composer Julius Eastman and diversity in music.
John Cage in letters
Letters by John Cage, a house inspired by Satie, and Hartmann's 1930s protest opera.
Vienna: City of Music
Tom Service presents an edition from Vienna with music historian David Wyn Jones.
How will the arts respond to Trump?
Donald Trump's cultural credentials, Barrie Kosky's The Nose, and Indian classical music.
The sound of mortality
Pianist Jonathan Biss on late works, Fiona Maddocks on music 'to carry you through'.
Beats behind bars
Mark-Anthony Turnage on prison music, plus Joseph Calleja, Ingo Metzmacher, and birdsong.
Busoni: music’s forgotten visionary
Tom Service visits Berlin to explore the life and work of Busoni.
Christa Ludwig: from song to silence
Retired mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig talks to Tom Service about her life in music.
Milton Babbitt: Changing the way we think about music
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to conductor Daniele Gatti.
Breaking Free - the minds that changed music
Tom Service discusses the legacy of the Second Viennese School.
Hamburg's new concert hall
Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Hamburg's new concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie.
John Adams: An American optimist
Tom Service interviews composer and conductor John Adams. Plus Brexit and the arts.
Immersed in Glass
Including the music of Philip Glass and 50 years since the 1967 Sexual Offences Act.
State of mind: music and mental health
Tom Service explores issues of mental health for professional musicians.
Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla at CBSO
Tom Service visits Symphony Hall in Birmingham to speak to conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla
At home with Maurizio Pollini
Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews Maurizio Pollini. Plus the centenary of George Malcolm.
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.
Daniel Barenboim: 'The ABC of music-making is listening'
Featuring conductors Marin Alsop, Sylvia Caduff and Daniel Barenboim.
Dinu Lipatti: a life at the piano
Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews conductor Simone Young. Plus a tribute to Dinu Lipatti.
Music in the Time of Our Lives
At the Free Thinking Festival 2017, Tom Service explores our perception of music and time.
Nathalie Stutzmann: Contralto and Conductor
Tom Service is joined by conductor-performers Nathalie Stutzmann and Richard Tognetti.
Mariss Jansons: How to build a concert hall
Mariss Jansons talks to Tom Service. Plus a celebration of Scott Joplin, in his centenary.
Music in Hull
Tom Service explores sounds of the Humber Bridge, Ethel Leginska and Hull's folk music.