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45 minutes
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Tom Service is joined by contralto-conductor Nathalie Stutzmann and violinist-conductor Richard Tognetti. Plus the experiences of BAME composers in having their music published. Show more
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Tom Service presents. Includes an interview with conductor Mariss Jansons, a celebration of Joplin and a visit behind the scenes at the New York Philharmonic's education programme. Show more
Tom Service explores music-making in Hull with some of the city's best folk musician. Plus folk collector Sam Lee, a profile of Ethel Leginska and the sounds of the Humber Bridge. Show more
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Tom Service meets conductor and violinist Nikolaj Znaider and rediscovers Philip Glass's masterpiece Music in Twelve Parts as a new generation of musicians prepare to play it. Show more
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Tom Service meets young composer Alma Deutscher, encounters a rarely performed Cavalli opera and explores cultural policies in the run-up to the UK general election. Show more
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Composers Thomas Ades and Gerald Barry talk to Tom Service about the 'explosive' music of Beethoven as well as their own work. Plus The Beatles' album Sgt Pepper at 50. Show more
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Tom Service pays tribute to conductor Jiri Belohlavek and talks to pianist Evgeny Kissin, composer Daniel Schnyder and explores gender issues in media composition. Show more
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Tom Service explores how sound and music in wildlife and nature films alter our perception of the natural world. How does music help tell stories of the natural environment? Show more
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Tom Service interviews operatic bass Sir Willard White. Plus a book about Mozart's pet starling, the music of Canada's indigenous people and composer Huang Ruo on his new project. Show more
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Tom Service hears from conductor Semyon Bychkov and composer Brian Irvine. Plus a discussion about music and landscape architecture with David Nicholas Buck and Kate Romano. Show more
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Tom Service talks to pianist Andras Schiff, discovers the British artist Tom Phillip's multimedia opera Irma, and celebrates 30 years of the BCMG with a trip down the canals. Show more
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Conductor Sakari Oramo talks about Sibelius, Phelim McDermott discusses Verdi's Aida, and Paul Driver and Frances Wilson debate the legacy of music critic Ernest Newman. Show more
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Tom Service visits rehearsals for the 2017 Cumnock Tryst music festival in East Ayrshire and talks to the festival's founder, composer Sir James MacMillan. Show more
Tom Service explores the life of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski, visiting his final home in the Tatra Mountains and talking to scholars and experts in Poland. Show more
Tom Service visits Copenhagen and Odense to learn more about Carl Nielsen and his music. Contributors include Thomas Dausgaard, Michael Schonwandt, Bo Holten and Nikolaj Znaider. Show more
Tom Service talks to renowned pianist Murray Perahia at the piano as he discusses his approach to Bach, Haydn, Beethoven and Chopin, and his musical mentors. Show more
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Tom Service pays tribute to Gunther Schuller, talks to opera director Damiano Michieletto and Alex Poots, the outgoing director of the Manchester International Festival. Show more
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Tom Service talks to Scottish born composer Thea Musgrave - one of the most respected composers working today - about her life in music.
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In a rare interview Tom Service talks to pianist Alfred Brendel, renowned interpreter of Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Beethoven, about his life, career and new book on music. Show more
58 minutes
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Tom Service discovers how music is used to manipulate and control, from music as a tool to subdue or intimidate, to the subconscious role music plays in our daily lives.
