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.

• 45 mins

Mariss Jansons: How to build a concert hall

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

• 45 mins

Music in Hull

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

• 45 mins

Andreas Haefliger, Monastic Music

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

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Music Therapy and Mental Health

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with the latest research into music therapy for mental health.

• 45 mins

Nikolaj Znaider, Philip Glass - Music in Twelve Parts, Daryl Runswick

Tom Service meets violinist Nikolaj Znaider. Plus Philip Glass's Music in Twelve Parts.

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Ravi Shankar's Sukanya, Jan Vogler

Tom Service meets Jan Vogler, plus Ravi Shankar's opera Sukanya.

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Monteverdi 450: Monteverdi the Radical

Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the radical side of Claudio Monteverdi's music.

• 45 mins

Alma Deutscher, Cavalli at Glyndebourne, Election 2017

Tom Service meets young composer and violinist Alma Deutscher.

• 45 mins

Thomas Ades and Gerald Barry, Sgt Pepper at 50, Guto Puw and Welsh-language music

Tom Service is joined by composer-conductor Thomas Ades and composer Gerald Barry.

• 45 mins

Evgeny Kissin Memoirs, Yardbird, Jiri Belohlavek

With pianist Evgeny Kissin, plus a discussion about gender issues in media composition.

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Sound and Nature

Tom Service explores the sound world of nature and wildlife on screen.

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Grace Bumbry, Audra McDonald, Bill Fontana

Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to opera star Grace Bumbry and Broadway singer Audra McDonald.

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Sir Willard White, Mozart's Pet Starling, Huang Ruo

Tom Service is in conversation with opera singer Sir Willard White.

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Semyon Bychkov, New Music Biennial, Music and Landscape Architecture

Tom Service with conductor Semyon Bychkov and composer Brian Irvine.

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Music on the move

Sara Mohr-Pietsch is in conversation with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato.

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Sir Andras Schiff, BCMG at 30, Tom Phillips, Netia Jones, This is Rattle

Tom Service talks to pianist Andras Schiff and artist Tom Phillips.

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Sakari Oramo on Sibelius

Tom Service talks to Sakari Oramo and previews Phelim McDermott's new production of Aida.

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Cumnock Tryst, James MacMillan, Music in Schools

Tom Service visits The Cumnock Tryst Festival and talks to its founder Sir James MacMillan

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BBC Opera Season: Dame Felicity Palmer, Annilese Miskimmon, cutting edge opera

Sara Mohr-Pietsch asks: 'What is the future of opera?' With Dame Felicity Palmer.

• 45 mins

Why Music? The Key to Memory

Live from Wellcome Collection.

• 45 mins

Julian Anderson; Kenneth MacMillan tribute

An interview with composer Julian Anderson; reflections on choreographer Kenneth MacMillan

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Howard Skempton, Martyn Brabbins, Women's Revolutions per Minute

Tom Service talks to composer Howard Skempton and the new conductor of ENO Martyn Brabbins

• 45 mins

Music on the Catalonia crisis; Book on Creative Brain; our musical lives on the internet; and Uri CaineDD

Music in the Catalonia crisis in Spain; a book on creativity and the brain, and Uri Caine.

• 45 mins

Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

Tom Service meets conductor Teodor Currentzis.

• 45 mins

Bernard Haitink, Nico Muhly's Marnie, Simon Keenlyside and Zenaida Yanowsky

Tom Service meets conductor Bernard Haitink at his London home.

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Huddersfield

Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores music-making in the West Yorkshire town of Huddersfield.

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Harassment in classical music

Tom Service looks at harassment in the classical music industry today.

• 44 mins

Mitsuko Uchida

Tom Service meets Mitsuko Uchida, one of the most influential pianists of her generation.

• 45 mins