Music Matters Podcast
The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters
Episodes to download
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Stephen Kovacevich, Thomas Ades and Howard Skempton
Sat 18 May 2019
Tom talks to pianist Stephen Kovacevich and composer Thomas Ades.
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Hel's Deep and Mountains High
Sat 23 Feb 2019
The Monstrous Child, composer Anthony Payne, piano duos, yoga, mountains and gods.
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Bohemia, Berio, and Bowing Out
Sat 1 Dec 2018
Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa plus getting inside Luciano Berio's Sinfonia
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Punching Above Your Weight: Bassoons and Boxing, Dundee and Helsinki
Sat 24 Nov 2018
Punching Above Your Weight: Bassoons and Boxing, Dundee and Helsinki.
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Memory, Loss, and Music’s Universal Power
Sat 10 Nov 2018
New music for a century of Armistice days and 350 years of Francois Couperin
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Whisky, Beethoven and Crocodiles
Sat 27 Oct 2018
Tom Service discusses Beethoven with Angela Hewitt, and crocodiles with Felix Stroeckens
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Passion, Masks and Parry
Sat 6 Oct 2018
Tom Service meets Pascal Dusapin, as his new dance-opera Passion tours the country.
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Bernstein's New York
Sat 25 Aug 2018
Tom Service travels to New York City to discover Bernstein's musical and social legacy.
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Chicago: Yo-Yo Ma and Riccardo Muti
Sat 16 Jun 2018
Tom Service visits Chicago to talk to cellist Yo-Yo Ma and conductor Riccardo Muti.
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Christopher Purves
Sat 2 Jun 2018
Tom Service talks to acclaimed British baritone Christopher Purves.
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Laurie Anderson
Sat 14 Apr 2018
Tom Service meets American composer and multi-media artist Laurie Anderson.
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Christophe Rousset
Sat 24 Feb 2018
Tom Service meets Christophe Rousset, the inspirational harpsichordist and conductor.
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Is Iceland the world's most musical country?
Sat 3 Feb 2018
Tom Service visits Reykjavik to ask whether Iceland is the world's most musical country.
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Music on the Catalonia crisis; Book on Creative Brain; our musical lives on the internet; and Uri CaineDD
Sat 4 Nov 2017
Music in the Catalonia crisis in Spain; a book on creativity and the brain, and Uri Caine.
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Sir Andras Schiff, BCMG at 30, Tom Phillips, Netia Jones, This is Rattle
Sat 16 Sep 2017
Tom Service talks to pianist Andras Schiff and artist Tom Phillips.
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Semyon Bychkov, New Music Biennial, Music and Landscape Architecture
Sat 1 Jul 2017
Tom Service with conductor Semyon Bychkov and composer Brian Irvine.
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Grace Bumbry, Audra McDonald, Bill Fontana
Sat 17 Jun 2017
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to opera star Grace Bumbry and Broadway singer Audra McDonald.
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Thomas Ades and Gerald Barry, Sgt Pepper at 50, Guto Puw and Welsh-language music
Sat 27 May 2017
Tom Service is joined by composer-conductor Thomas Ades and composer Gerald Barry.
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Monteverdi 450: Monteverdi the Radical
Sat 13 May 2017
Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the radical side of Claudio Monteverdi's music.
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Nikolaj Znaider, Philip Glass - Music in Twelve Parts, Daryl Runswick
Sat 29 Apr 2017
Tom Service meets violinist Nikolaj Znaider. Plus Philip Glass's Music in Twelve Parts.
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Andreas Haefliger, Monastic Music
Sat 15 Apr 2017
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to pianist Andreas Haefliger and visits a musical monastery.
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Daniel Barenboim: 'The ABC of music-making is listening'
Sat 4 Mar 2017
Featuring conductors Marin Alsop, Sylvia Caduff and Daniel Barenboim.
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Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla at CBSO
Sat 11 Feb 2017
Tom Service visits Symphony Hall in Birmingham to speak to conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla
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Milton Babbitt: Changing the way we think about music
Sat 17 Dec 2016
Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to conductor Daniele Gatti.
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Busoni: music’s forgotten visionary
Sat 3 Dec 2016
Tom Service visits Berlin to explore the life and work of Busoni.
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The sound of mortality
Sat 19 Nov 2016
Pianist Jonathan Biss on late works, Fiona Maddocks on music 'to carry you through'.
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Kristjan Jarvi, Viola Tunnard and Sally Beamish
Sat 15 Oct 2016
Sara Mohr-Pietsch meets Kristjan Jarvi and Sally Beamish, and remembers Viola Tunnard.
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Sounds of Shakespeare
Sat 23 Apr 2016
Tom Service on the music in Shakespeare's plays and Shakespearean music from BBC archives.
Knock on wood – six stunning wooden concert halls around the world
Steel and concrete can't beat good old wood to produce the best sounds for music.
The evolution of video game music
Tom Service traces the rise of an exciting new genre, from bleeps to responsive scores.
Why music can literally make us lose track of time
Try our psychoacoustic experiment to see how tempo can affect your timekeeping abilities.
