Music Matters

Christopher Purves

BBC Radio 3

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: Sat 2^nd Jun 2018, 12:15 on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: Mon 4^th Jun 2018, 22:00 on BBC Radio 3

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Tom Service talks to Christopher Purves, one of the most theatrically and musically vivid bass-baritones on opera stages around the world. Show more

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Presenter:: Tom Service
Interviewed Guest:: Christopher Purves
Interviewed Guest:: Michael Volpe
Interviewed Guest:: Polly Graham
Interviewed Guest:: Antony Feeny
Interviewed Guest:: Eli Maor
Interviewed Guest:: Eugenia Cheng

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BBC Proms

2017

Simon Rattle's Gurrelieder

BBC Four

Duration: 2 hours

First broadcast: Sun 3^rd Sep 2017, 20:00 on BBC Four HDLatest broadcast: Sun 3^rd Sep 2017, 20:00 on BBC Four

Sir Simon Rattle brings Schoenberg's Gurrelieder to the Royal Albert Hall. An epic love story conceived on a Wagnerian scale, it reaches its climax with a depiction of sunrise. Show more

BBC Proms

2014

First Night of the Proms

BBC Two

Duration: 1 hour, 40 minutes

First broadcast: Fri 18^th Jul 2014, 20:00 on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: Fri 18^th Jul 2014, 20:00 on BBC Two England

A performance of Elgar's biblical oratorio, The Kingdom. Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the BBC National Chorus of Wales. Show more