Music Matters
Radio 3's flagship classical music magazine programme, with topical in-depth interviews, features and discussions on the big ideas driving today's music world. Get in touch with the programme... [email protected] Call: 03700 100 300
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Free Thinking 2010
An audience discussion from the Sage Gateshead, as part of the 2010 Free Thinking festival
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Tom Service looks at the links between music and mental and physical health.
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Tom Service discusses the impact of the 2008 US elections on the country's music scene.
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Tom Service immerses himself in the music of Domenico Scarlatti.
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Tom Service talks to Daniel Barenboim, and looks at a new book on Russian music.
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With pianists Katia and Marielle Labeque and Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe.
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Petroc Trelawny explores the border territory between literature and music.
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Tom Service meets young Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons.
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Petroc Trelawny explores Harrison Birtwistle's new opera The Minotaur.
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James Jolly explores the myths and the media image of conductor Herbert von Karajan.
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Petroc Trelawny and guests review three new books about music.
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With iconic sitar player Ravin Shankar and a reassessment of Rimsky-Korsakov's legacy.
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Petroc Trelawny meets the Grand Union Youth Orchestra. Plus a book on 20th century music.
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Petroc Trelawny talks to Alexander Waugh about his book The House of Wittgenstein.
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Tom Service's guests include violinist Itzhak Perlman and broadcaster Howard Goodall.
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With pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard on recording Bach and managing the Aldeburgh Festival.
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With baritone Thomas Quasthoff, a Nielsen festival and an Opera North comic operetta.
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Featuring a rare interview with celebrated Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman.
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Petroc Trelawny explores four new books about music, including a Schumann biography.
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Tom Service travels to Ireland to explore the part classical music plays in Irish culture.
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Tom Service talks to composer Judith Weir.
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Simon Heffer explains the influence of war on the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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Tom Service talks to composer Peter Eotvos about his new opera Love and Other Demons.
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Tom Service visits the Lucerne Festival Academy in Switzerland. Plus Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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Tom Service takes a look at the latest news in the musical world.
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Petroc Trelawny seeks out one of Britain's best Wurlitzer organs.
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Tom Service talks to composer James MacMillan about his new folk tale opera The Sacrifice.
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Tom Service presents a special programme on the life and music of Karlheinz Stockhausen.
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Tom Service presents a special programme marking the 150th anniversary of Puccini's birth.
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With a look at Vivaldi as opera composer ahead of a performance of Tito Manlio.
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Tom Service talks to pianist Stephen Hough and looks at the history of the Beggar's Opera.
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Petroc Trelawny talks to leading American composer John Adams.
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Valery Gergiev talks about his current interests, including his Mahler cycle.
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Architect Renzo Piano dicusses his work on the first performance of Nono's Prometeo.
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With Tom Service. With a feature on new King's Place concert hall in London.
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Tom Service meets conductor John Eliot Gardiner and explores the work of Korngold.
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Petroc Trelawny presents a special edition from Deutschlandradio Kultur in Berlin.
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Petroc Trelawny is in Beijing to look at Western classical music's place in China today.
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Tom Service talks to English baritone Thomas Allen about his career.
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With Tom Service. Including Fiona Shaw on directing her first opera.
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Tom Service compares two dystopian visions of the world on stage in London opera houses.
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Looking at the place of classical music in fiction, plus Ian McEwan and Michael Berkeley.
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Tom Service listens back and investigates how Radio 3 has reacted to the outside world.
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Tom Service travels across the English Midlands taking a snapshot of music making.
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Presented by Tom Service. Featuring conductor Alan Gilbert and composer Nico Muhly.
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Tom Service talks to Alexander Goehr about his new opera Promised End.
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Presented by Tom Service. With Angela Hewitt; opera in Essex; music from the RAF.
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Tom Service talks to Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel. Plus some of Yorkshire's lost pianos.
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Petroc Trelawny meets Bryn Terfel in Cardiff and marks the centenary of tenor Peter Pears.
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Including Cape Town Opera's UK debut, and the life of Scottish composer Erik Chisholm.
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Tom Service explores Carlo Gesualdo's music. Plus Stephen Kovacevich and Eliza Carthy.
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Presented by Tom Service. With mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and Mischa Aster.
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Pianists Maurizio Pollini and Krystian Zimerman talk about the music of Chopin.
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With Tom Service. Including soprano Christine Brewer and the book The Music of Painting.
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Tom Service explores the link between acoustics and music in Venice's churches.
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Tom Service talks to Colin Davis and explores the links between music and morality.
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Tom Service presents a biography of Cosima Wagner.
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Tom Service talks to Kaija Saariaho about L'Amour de loin at English National Opera.
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Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Includes an interview with conductor Donald Runnicles.
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Tom Service talks to Ed Vaizey on the Government's spending review and music-making.
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Petroc Trelawny explores the music of Edgar Varese and talks to Ton Koopman.
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Tom Service talks to mezzo-soprano Felicity Palmer and visits the Brighton Festival 2009.
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Tom Service investigates the hidden world of film music.
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Tom Service visits Glyndebourne to look at the role of the opera house in the 21st century
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Petroc Trelawny and guests assess Handel's significance 250 years after his death.
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Tom Service examines our attitudes to Haydn with the help of Alfred Brendel among others.
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Tom Service talks to composers writing new works for a Mahler symphony cycle.
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Tom Service discovers how musical life in Hungary has changed since the fall of communism.
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Tom Service talks to pianist Imogen Cooper and explores Cambridge's choral traditions.
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Petroc Trelawny reports from Istanbul on the state of classical music in the city.
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Tom Service talks to tenor John Potter about his book on the history of the tenor voice.
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Tom Service meets young conductor Jonathan Nott. Plus the lasting interest in Schumann.
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Petroc Trelawny talks to celebrated guitarist Julian Bream.
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Tom Service chairs a phone-in about the future of classical music and the arts.
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Tom Service follows in the footsteps of Mendelssohn, who toured Scotland in 1829.
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Tom Service explores Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 and talks to composer Michel van der Aa.
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Tom Service presents a special programme on the connections between music and the brain.
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Tom Service visits Tallinn and Turku to learn about the music of both cities.
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Tom Service talks to the versatile and prolific jazz musician Chick Corea.
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Investigating the complex relationship between Chopin and his homeland.
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Tom Service talks to conductor Roger Norrington. Plus pianist Richard Goode.
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Tom Service chairs a debate from Manchester about the current issues in music education.
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Tom Service talks to violinist Nigel Kennedy about Poland and explores the music of Cage.
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Tom Service and guests discuss a new book about the film composer Nino Rota.
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Tom Service discusses, with artists and experts, if opera matters as an art form today.
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Petroc Trelawny talks to Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki.
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Tom Service travels to the Orkney Islands to visit composer Peter Maxwell Davies.
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Petroc Trelawny talks to Jonathan Miller and voice coach Christina Shewell.
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Tom Service explores the part classical music plays in Portuguese culture today.
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Tom Service on Purcell's influence on British musical life from the 20th century to today.
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Tom Service goes in search of English composer Henry Purcell.
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Tom Service and guests look at some of the key cultural events of 2008.
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Tom Service talks to composer Richard Rodney Bennett and violinist Leonidas Kavakos.
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Tom Service talks to Rolando Villazon about performance, his throat surgery and Handel.
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Tom Service marks Samuel Barber's birth centenary and talks to the Emerson Quartet.
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Tom Service presents a special programme from Glasgow.
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Tom Service talks to Simon Rattle, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic.
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Petroc Trelawny talks so mezzo-soprano Susan Graham about her passion for French music.
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Tom Service and guests discuss a new biography of Tchaikovsky.
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Tom Service and guests examine musical highlights of the first decade of the 21st century.
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Featuring a profile of Bang on a Can, a new book on Terry Riley's In C and Steve Martland.
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Tom Service talks to minimalist composer Terry Riley and German tenor Jonas Kaufmann.
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Presented by Tom Service. With a discussion on the financial crisis's effect on the arts.
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Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Featuring a new version of Prokofiev's opera The Gambler.
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Tom Service presents a rare, extended interview with composer Thomas Ades.
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Presented by Tom Service. Including 100 years of Elliott Carter's correspondence.
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Tom Service meets Vasily Petrenko, principal conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
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Tom Service meets violinist Viktoria Mullova. Plus a book about violinist Adolf Busch.
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Tom Service investigates music-making in Wales in the run-up to Christmas.
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Petroc Trelawny talks to film director Mike Figgis as he makes his operatic debut.