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Music Matters: Vikingur Olafsson, ENO Figaro, Prokofiev operas

Vikingur Olafsson, ENO Figaro, Prokofiev operas

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Vikingur Olafsson, ENO Figaro, Prokofiev operas

The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch meets Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olafsson, author Christina Guillaumier, Russian music expert Gerard McBurney, and pays a visit to the English National Opera.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to  Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olafsson, whose new CD juxtaposes the music of French composers Rameau and Debussy, author Christina Guillaumier on her new book The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev, as well as Russian music expert Gerard McBurney, and visits English National Opera in London to chat to cast and director Joe Hill-Gibbins of a new production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.

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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