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Music Matters

Karol Szymanowski

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

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

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Service
Interviewed Guest:
Aleksander Laskowski
Interviewed Guest:
Malgorzata Janicka-Slysz
Interviewed Guest:
Kaja Danczowska
Interviewed Guest:
Janina Fialkowska
Interviewed Guest:
Antonio Pappano
Interviewed Guest:
Kasper Holten
Interviewed Guest:
Mariusz Kwiecien

Music Matters

State of mind: music and mental health

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Tom Service explores issues of mental health for professional musicians. Plus Royal Opera House's director of opera, Kasper Holten, and Soosan Lolavar on her new opera, ID Please. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Service
Interviewed Guest:
Deborah Charnock
Interviewed Guest:
Helen Brice
Interviewed Guest:
John Summers
Interviewed Guest:
Aaron Williamon
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Boothby
Interviewed Guest:
Kasper Holten
Interviewed Guest:
Soosan Lolavar

Music Matters

Verdi and Wagner 200

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Tom Service chairs a discussion with guests including Stephen Fry and bass Robert Lloyd, focusing on Verdi and Wagner and how they each revolutionised opera. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Service
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Fry
Interviewed Guest:
Graham Vick
Interviewed Guest:
Robert Lloyd
Interviewed Guest:
Kasper Holten
Interviewed Guest:
Simone Young
Producer:
Brian Jackson

Front Row

Babylon; The Mistress Contract

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong on their new TV drama Babylon; Abi Morgan's play The Mistress Contract reviewed; How to make operas work on stage and in cinema. With Kirsty Lang. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Sam Bain
Interviewed Guest:
Jesse Armstrong
Interviewed Guest:
Abi Morgan
Interviewed Guest:
John Berry
Interviewed Guest:
Kasper Holten
Interviewed Guest:
Fiona McFarlane

Duration: 3 hours

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Covent Garden's production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, a depiction of the last day and night of the most iconic of seducers, in a new interpretation directed by Kasper Holten. Show more

Contributors

Stage Director:
Kasper Holten
Stage Designer:
Es Devlin
Conductor:
Nicola Luisotti
Don Giovanni:
Mariusz Kwiecien
Leporello:
Alex Esposito