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Music Matters Episodes

    Christa Ludwig: from song to silence

    Retired mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig talks to Tom Service about her life in music.

    Busoni: music’s forgotten visionary

    Tom Service visits Berlin to explore the life and work of Busoni.

    Beats behind bars

    Mark-Anthony Turnage on prison music, plus Joseph Calleja, Ingo Metzmacher, and birdsong.

    The sound of mortality

    Pianist Jonathan Biss on late works, Fiona Maddocks on music 'to carry you through'.

    How will the arts respond to Trump?

    Donald Trump's cultural credentials, Barrie Kosky's The Nose, and Indian classical music.

    Vienna: City of Music

    Tom Service presents an edition from Vienna with music historian David Wyn Jones.

    John Cage in letters

    Letters by John Cage, a house inspired by Satie, and Hartmann's 1930s protest opera.

    Classical Music’s Diversity Deficit: BAME Composers

    Tom Service discusses African-American composer Julius Eastman and diversity in music.

    Kristjan Jarvi, Viola Tunnard and Sally Beamish

    Sara Mohr-Pietsch meets Kristjan Jarvi and Sally Beamish, and remembers Viola Tunnard.

    Neville Marriner tribute, Matthew Kaner in Lucerne, Paul Robertson remembered

    Tom Service presents a tribute to the late Sir Neville Marriner.

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