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Music Matters: Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax

Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax

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Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax join Tom Service to talk about their new Beethoven recording.

Tom Service is joined by Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, to talk about their new recording of the cello and piano works of Beethoven.

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Tom Service is joined by one of the most celebrated duos in chamber music, Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, to talk about their new recording of the cello and piano works of Beethoven. They first recorded these together forty years ago - how has their approach to music changed over this time?  The title of their album 'Hope amid tears' reflects both the events of Beethoven's life and the situation in which the world has found itself over the past year.

'Dido's Ghost' is a new opera by UK composer Errollyn Wallen, premiered this weekend.  It takes Purcell's classic opera Dido and Aeneas as a starting point, and develops as a sequel to the piece - what happened to Aeneas after he left Carthage, and is he haunted by the memory of his relationship with Dido?  Tom talks it all over with Errollyn Wallen and conductor John Butt, with exclusive rehearsal recordings from the new piece.

And alongside Late Junction's month-long dream season, Tom looks at music and dreams - dreams that have inspired composers, and musical dreams that have helped some make sense of their lives.  He is joined by musical dreamer Jessica Duchen and American author and researcher Craig Webb to reflect on how far the experience of music itself is like entering a dream world.

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