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Chicago: Yo-Yo Ma and Riccardo Muti
Chicago: Yo-Yo Ma and Riccardo Muti
Tom Service visits Chicago to talk to two major figures at the heart of the city's musical and cultural life: cellist Yo... Read more
16 Jun 2018
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Ranked #2
Sir Andras Schiff, BCMG at 30, Tom Phillips, Netia Jones, This is Rattle
Sir Andras Schiff, BCMG at 30, Tom Phillips, Netia Jones, This is Rattle
Tom speaks to Sir Andras Schiff, one of the world's greatest living pianists and also one of the most thoughtful talkers... Read more
16 Sep 2017
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Punching Above Your Weight: Bassoons and Boxing, Dundee and Helsinki
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch meets two American singers - the opera icon Grace Bumbry and the broadway star Audra McDonald. Plus a ... Read more
17 Jun 2017
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Season finale
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In the last programme of season, Tom Service is joined by composer Tansy Davies, theatre and opera director Adele Thomas... Read more
13 Jul 2019
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Tom Service talks to Christopher Purves, one of the most theatrically and musically vivid bass-baritones on opera stages... Read more
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Bohemia, Berio, and Bowing Out
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Young Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa talks to Tom Service about starting out, life at the helm of Bamberg Symphony Orchestr... Read more
1 Dec 2018
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Tom Service meets conductor Jonathan Nott to discuss his passion for music which began as a choral scholar in Worcester,... Read more
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Is Iceland the world's most musical country?
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In this week's Music Matters Tom Service visits Reykjavik to ask whether Iceland is the most musical country in the worl... Read more
3 Feb 2018
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The Orpheus myth
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This week Kate Molleson talks to one of the great mezzo-sopranos, Alice Coote as she prepares for her role as Orpheus in... Read more
28 Sep 2019
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Memory, Loss, and Music’s Universal Power
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Marking the centenary of the Armistice, Tom Service talks to three composers writing music in response to war: Mira Cali... Read more
10 Nov 2018
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Whisky, Beethoven and Crocodiles
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Tom Service discusses Beethoven at the keyboard with pianist Angela Hewitt, who is currently touring Beethoven's Emperor... Read more
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Christophe Rousset
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Tom Service meets Christophe Rousset, the inspirational harpsichordist and conductor, founder of the period instrument e... Read more
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Semyon Bychkov, New Music Biennial, Music and Landscape Architecture
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Semyon Bychkov is sought after across the world as a conductor of all repertoire, but he has a particularly deep connect... Read more
1 Jul 2017
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