Sir Mark Elder
Tom Service talks to Sir Mark Elder about the legacy that he is leaving behind him after 24 years as Music Director at the Hallé Orchestra....
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Music Matters
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Listen to Music Matters, a Society & Culture podcast by BBC. Stream 148 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 148 episodesAurora Orchestra's Winterreise, Kerry Andrew, and Women at the Piano
Tom Service talks to pianist and writer, Susan Tomes, about her new book Women and the Piano - a History in 50 Lives. Those lives include we...
Joyce DiDonato, Caroline Potter on Boulez, Szymanowski's Harnasie
Presented by Tom Service. This week, Tom talks to the American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato about her life in music, and her creative missio...
Jeremy Denk and Missy Mazzoli
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to renowned American pianist, Jeremy Denk, ahead of his Wigmore Hall recital of Bach Partitas. He discusses his pass...
Anna Meredith, Igor Levit
Tom Service talks to composer Anna Meredith as her soundtrack to the poetic British film The End We Start From, and starring Jodie Comer, is...
Tamara Stefanovich, Martin Hayes
Kate Molleson talks to pianist Tamara Stefanovich. A champion of 20th and 21st century music, Tamara explains her deep connection with the m...
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Alice Sara Ott, Bryce Dessner
Tom Service meets French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet during his recital tour where he performs both books of Debussy’s Préludes. His 1996 re...
Karita Mattila and Edgar Meyer
Tom Service meets Finnish soprano, Karita Mattila as she prepares for her role as Klytämnestra in Strauss’s Elektra at the Royal Opera House...
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Tom Service speaks to the conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music Director of the Montreal Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the M...
Meredith Monk
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to one of the 21st-century's leading creative artists – the American composer and interdisciplinary artist, Meredith...
Budapest: György Kurtág, Ivan Fischer and Márta Sebestyén
Kate Molleson travels to Budapest to meet Hungary’s greatest living composer, György Kurtág, now 97 years old. Kurtag talks to Kate about th...
Anthony McGill, Imogen Cooper and Weelkes
Tom Service talks to Anthony McGill, Principal Clarinettist with the New York Philharmonic, as he commences his tenure as Artist-in-Residenc...
The new Bernstein film Maestro
Ahead of the release of Maestro, Bradley Cooper’s long-awaited film about Leonard Bernstein, Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to the conductor and co...
Christian Thielemann, Angélique Kidjo, National Brass Band Championships
As his new recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra of the complete symphonies of Anton Bruckner - all eleven of them - hit the rec...
Dame Janet Baker
Presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch speaks to one of the most treasured and celebrated British mezzo-sopranos, Dame Janet Baker. Following the recen...
Abel Selaocoe, Leif Ove Andsnes
Kate Molleson is joined by South African cellist, singer and composer Abel Selaocoe with his cello in tow, as he prepares to tour this autum...
Elim Chan, 400 years of William Byrd
As Radio 3 marks the 400th anniversary of William Byrd’s death, Tom Service visits Lincoln Cathedral, the centre of musical activity where t...
Windrush 75, Nicole Paiement, Nigel Brooks
Presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the musical legacy of the Windrush generation, as part of the BBC's coverage of the 75th anniversary of...
Barrie Kosky and Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites
As the CBSO prepares for a summer of tours to Aldeburgh, Japan, and the BBC Proms, the orchestra’s new Chief Conductor Kazuki Yamada speaks...
Brad Mehldau, François-Xavier Roth
With his new memoir ‘Formation - Building a Personal Canon, Part I’ hitting bookshops, and a new collaborative album with the tenor Ian Bost...
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