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Tom Service

Ian Bostridge

Elaine Padmore

Ivan Hewett

Alexandra Wilson

Gillian Keith

Simon Lepper

Music Matters: Christmas Stocking Fillers

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Music: Classical

20/12/2014

Christmas Stocking Fillers

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Christmas Stocking Fillers

Tom Service reviews three new books on music and a CD of Debussy songs.

Tom Service reviews a new biography of Bizet, a book on Wagner's successors and Ian Bostridge's book about Schubert's Winterreise. Plus Gillian Keith's new CD of Debussy songs.

With only a few shopping days left until Christmas, Music Matters takes a look at three new books on musical subjects and a CD that may well turn out to be the last minute stocking filler you were looking for! Tom Service is joined by Elaine Padmore, former Director of Opera at The Royal Opera House; Ivan Hewett, broadcaster and music critic for The Daily Telegraph and the musicologist and cultural historian Alexandra Wilson to review the following publications:.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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