Cole Porter, Music News Round-Up, Housman

Petroc Trelawny with a portrait of Cole Porter and a round-up 2015-16's big music stories.

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Britten Books, Ruhrtriennale Festival

Sara Mohr-Pietsch discusses two books about Britten. Plus a visit to the Ruhrtriennale.

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Sound Frontiers: Who Cares If You Listen?

Tom Service considers the relationship between modern composers and audiences in 1946.

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Sound Frontiers: Music and Technology

Tom Service explores technological innovations in music for composers and performers.

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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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Kristjan Jarvi, Viola Tunnard and Sally Beamish

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

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Classical Music’s Diversity Deficit: BAME Composers

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

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John Cage in letters

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

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Vienna: City of Music

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

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How will the arts respond to Trump?

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

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The sound of mortality

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

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Beats behind bars

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

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Busoni: music’s forgotten visionary

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

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Christa Ludwig: from song to silence

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

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Milton Babbitt: Changing the way we think about music

Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to conductor Daniele Gatti.

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Breaking Free - the minds that changed music

Tom Service discusses the legacy of the Second Viennese School.

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Hamburg's new concert hall

Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Hamburg's new concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie.

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John Adams: An American optimist

Tom Service interviews composer and conductor John Adams. Plus Brexit and the arts.

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Immersed in Glass

Including the music of Philip Glass and 50 years since the 1967 Sexual Offences Act.

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State of mind: music and mental health

Tom Service explores issues of mental health for professional musicians.

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Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla at CBSO

Tom Service visits Symphony Hall in Birmingham to speak to conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla

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At home with Maurizio Pollini

Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews Maurizio Pollini. Plus the centenary of George Malcolm.

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ENO premieres Wigglesworth's The Winter's Tale

Tom Service talks to the creators of a new opera based on Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.

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Daniel Barenboim: 'The ABC of music-making is listening'

Featuring conductors Marin Alsop, Sylvia Caduff and Daniel Barenboim.

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Dinu Lipatti: a life at the piano

Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews conductor Simone Young. Plus a tribute to Dinu Lipatti.

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Music in the Time of Our Lives

At the Free Thinking Festival 2017, Tom Service explores our perception of music and time.

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Nathalie Stutzmann: Contralto and Conductor

Tom Service is joined by conductor-performers Nathalie Stutzmann and Richard Tognetti.

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Mariss Jansons: How to build a concert hall

Mariss Jansons talks to Tom Service. Plus a celebration of Scott Joplin, in his centenary.

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Music in Hull

Tom Service explores sounds of the Humber Bridge, Ethel Leginska and Hull's folk music.

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Andreas Haefliger, Monastic Music

Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to pianist Andreas Haefliger and visits a musical monastery.

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