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Sara Mohr-Pietsch is in conversation with German-born Swiss pianist Andreas Haefliger. Plus a focus on the musical life of a monastery. Show more
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Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Including the latest research into music therapy for mental health, opera director Tom Cairns and a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald. Show more
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of Monteverdi with an investigation into his life and music, exploring what made him a modernist and a radical. Show more
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to two American singers - the opera icon Grace Bumbry and the Broadway star Audra McDonald. Plus the sound artist Bill Fontana at the Aldeburgh Festival. Show more
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Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about her work with El Sistema in Greece. Plus other musical responses to the refugee crisis around Europe. Show more
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Tom Service talks to the violinist Viktoria Mullova, and Sara Mohr-Pietsch asks why there are still so few female composers represented at the highest level. Plus Weill's Mahagonny. Show more
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents. With a review of Philip Glass's memoir Words Without Music, a preview of Tansy Davies's opera debut Between Worlds and English Touring Opera profiled. Show more
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the letters of composer John Cage, visits a new house inspired by the music of Satie, and previews a rare new production of an opera by Hartmann. Show more
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American pianist Jonathan Biss on late works, Fiona Maddocks on music 'to carry you through', Edinburgh's new concert hall, plus music recorded in the Calais migrant camp. Show more
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Daniele Gatti on life as the new chief conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, plus American composer Milton Babbitt and 19th-century conductor Hans Richter. Show more
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Hamburg's new concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie. Plus German composer Jorg Widmann and a discussion about the relationship between belief and music.
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch assesses the influence of Philip Glass, and explores the musical and social impact of the 1967 act in the UK which decriminalised homosexual acts in private. Show more
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch travels to Milan to interview celebrated Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini. Plus pianist Nicolas Hodges, and the centenary of harpsichordist George Malcolm. Show more
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews the conductor Simone Young. Plus a tribute to the pianist Dinu Lipatti on the centenary of his birth, and a profile of the composer Rued Langgaard. Show more
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch discusses the life of Benjamin Britten with academics Gerard McBurney and Marina Frolova-Walker. Plus a report from the Ruhrtriennale in north west Germany. Show more
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Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Including interviews with conductor Kristjan Jarvi and composer Sally Beamish, plus a tribute to forgotten pianist Viola Tunnard.
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch asks: 'What is the future of opera?' She speaks to Dame Felicity Palmer and discovers some of the most exciting projects pushing opera right to its limits. Show more
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews composer Julian Anderson, and remembers choreographer Sir Kenneth MacMillan with the help of former dancer Viviana Durante and composer Brian Elias. Show more
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch on music in the Catalonia crisis; also a new book about creativity and the brain; what the internet tells us about our musical lives; and the composer Uri Caine. Show more
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch investigates a crisis in traditional instrument building, and Jennifer Walshe muses on the delights and horrors of Christmas musical kitsch. Show more
