The Music Show

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Hear the interview of the week from the Music Show, where composer Andrew Ford entertains and informs a wide audience each week, providing two hours of essential listening from the world of music.

Episode Date
Folk trio Apolline, and Blossom Dearie at 100
May 05, 2024
Maanyung on saltwater, sand, and sound & Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth
May 04, 2024
Pits, picket lines and pop music: the 1984-5 UK miners' strike
Apr 28, 2024
Sir Andrew Davis remembered, and Martha Wainwright returns to Australia
Apr 27, 2024
Beethoven and Webern with Timo-Veikko Valve and Aura Go, and Alison Cotton's Engelchen: how opera-loving sisters helped evacuate Jewish refugees
Apr 21, 2024
Ann Savoy: a life in Cajun music and Wilbur Whitta's Wildfire
Apr 20, 2024
Recorders, Fiddles, Clogs and Swords
Apr 14, 2024
Benjamin Northey on conducting and community & remembering Clarence 'Frogman' Henry
Apr 13, 2024
The Music of Remembrance with Jeremy Eichler
Apr 06, 2024
Sam Anning's earthenware and Beethoven's Missa solemnis at 200
Apr 06, 2024
Víkingur Ólafsson's infinite variety, and remembering Maurizio Pollini
Mar 31, 2024
One Queen of the Cross, two Finnish fiddlers and a century of women composers
Mar 30, 2024
Music for Prime Time
Mar 24, 2024
Peter Garrett's unwavering optimism and Jo Davies' first season at the helm of Opera Australia
Mar 23, 2024
Corinne Bailey Rae on Black resilience and the freedom of a career left turn
Mar 17, 2024
Simone Young conducts Gurrelieder and Eleanor McEvoy hits the road
Mar 16, 2024
Lisa O'Neill and Cormac Begley live at WOMADelaide
Mar 10, 2024
Marta Pereira da Costa, The Good Ones and Katanga Junior live at WOMADelaide
Mar 09, 2024
Polyphony and protest with Windborne, loops and language with Allara
Mar 03, 2024
Dancing across the world with Angélique Kidjo & Maatakitj, and from opera to cabaret with Anna Dowsley
Mar 02, 2024
Jazz Money's poetic ventures into music and Cameron Undy's ghostly rhythms
Feb 25, 2024
Fearless voices: Joseph Keckler and Raehann Bryce-Davis
Feb 24, 2024
The exile of Arooj Aftab and what Alana Valentine built from the fire of Notre-Dame
Feb 18, 2024
Unknown Mortal Orchestra's Ruban Nielson plays his Hawaiian roots and Katharine Dain sings 20th Century desire
Feb 17, 2024
Lonnie Holley is part of the wonder
Feb 11, 2024
Aboard the Arka Kinari, & Frank Yamma live in studio
Feb 10, 2024
Eddie Perfect gets candid about Candide and Forest Collective enter the Labyrinth
Feb 04, 2024
Rivers with Richard Tognetti, oceans with Iran Sanadzadeh, and remembering Chita Rivera
Feb 03, 2024
Cigány Weaver live in studio & Lotte Betts-Dean's distinctly medieval collaboration with Stuart MacRae
Jan 28, 2024
David Keenan's Irish Songs & remembering David Lumsdaine
Jan 27, 2024
From Little Things Big Things Grow on RN Summer
Jan 21, 2024
Electric Fields & Stiff Gins on RN Summer
Jan 20, 2024
The Lives of Noël Coward on RN Summer
Jan 14, 2024
Fred Leone & Marcia Hines on RN Summer
Jan 13, 2024
James Gavin's Ravaged Voices on RN Summer
Jan 07, 2024
ANOHNI & the Johnsons return and we’re In the Moog on RN Summer
Jan 06, 2024
Pop Hooks on RN Summer
Dec 31, 2023
Hozier's Inferno & Benjamin Appl's Forbidden Fruit on RN Summer
Dec 30, 2023
Looking to the skies with Fanny Lumsden & Georgia Mooney on RN Summer
Dec 24, 2023
Don Walker & Rob Hao on RN Summer
Dec 23, 2023
Andy Irvine
Dec 17, 2023
Hill, Higgins, & Cross
Dec 16, 2023
Richard Mills' Galileo; and banjos, violins, vacuum cleaners - the best of our 2023 live sessions
Dec 10, 2023
Getting plucky with harpist Emily Granger & Hank Williams at 100
Dec 09, 2023
Anthony Marwood
Dec 03, 2023
New music from Carla Geneve, live music from Nexus Arts Orchestra, and remembering Shane MacGowan
Dec 02, 2023
100 years of radio in Australia: live from the National Film and Sound Archive
Nov 26, 2023
Australian staples: Bart Willoughby and Ashley Naylor
Nov 25, 2023
Travelling tunes with troubadour Fred Smith and jazz duo Claire Cross & Harry Cook
Nov 19, 2023
Conversations with ZÖJ & conservation with Bowerbird Collective
Nov 18, 2023
Robyn Archer's Australian Songbook
Nov 12, 2023
Holly Moore's Reunion & Katie Yap's Multitudes
Nov 11, 2023
Geraldine Turner
Nov 05, 2023
The Bamboos and Troy Cassar-Daley are keeping it in the family
Nov 04, 2023
Bright Eyes & Big Bands: Conor Oberst and Vanessa Perica
Oct 29, 2023
Finding a common language: Hyoshi in Counterpoint and Hand to Earth
Oct 28, 2023
Annea Lockwood: Tête-à-tête
Oct 22, 2023
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Oct 21, 2023
Music in spaces & places in song: No-No Boy and FUJI||||||||||TA
Oct 15, 2023
New Australian Opera: Panbe Zan and The Visitors
Oct 14, 2023
William Byrd
Oct 08, 2023
Gospels, gryphons, and remembering Jacqueline Dark
Oct 07, 2023
How the 1970s changed music
Oct 01, 2023
Weathering extremes: Sydney Chamber Opera's triple bill and Jim Denley's new albums
Sep 30, 2023
The Lives of Noël Coward
Sep 24, 2023
Legacies: Jarabi Band and the Alma Moodie Quartet
Sep 23, 2023
Dutch-Indian Jugalbandi and Mark Isaacs' Passion for Harmony
Sep 17, 2023
Hildur Guðnadóttir is making music with Kenneth Branagh, and Kate Neal and Rubiks Collective are passing time
Sep 16, 2023
From pillar to podium: Umberto Clerici
Sep 10, 2023
A win-wind situation: Eliza Shephard and Phillippa Murphy-Haste
Sep 09, 2023
Keeping it fresh: completing Schubert's incomplete music, and The Cat Empire's next gen
Sep 03, 2023
Kurt Elling's chops and an Extremely Serious Musical Comedy: The Dismissal
Sep 02, 2023
James Gavin on Ravaged Voices
Aug 27, 2023
Looking to the skies: Fanny Lumsden, Georgia Mooney, and their new albums
Aug 26, 2023
Horns, Voices & Keyboard Fantasies with Stefan Dohr, Meta Cohen and Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Aug 20, 2023
Hozier's Unreal Unearth, and the legacy of Liszt
Aug 19, 2023
Birdsong
Aug 13, 2023
Butchulla beats, Baez on the big screen, and Remembering Robbie Robertson and Rodriguez
Aug 12, 2023
William Barton & Stiff Gins
Aug 06, 2023
Distinctive strings: Tahlia Petrosian and the Gewandhaus musicians, and brother/guitar duo Ziggy & Miles
Aug 05, 2023
György Ligeti at 100
Jul 30, 2023
Jessica Pratt's Mad Scenes, learning Anindilyakwa with Shellie Morris, & remembering Sinéad O'Connor and Tony Bennett
Jul 29, 2023
Hearing Mike Nock
Jul 23, 2023
Benjamin Appl's Forbidden Fruit & Busby Marou's endless optimism
Jul 22, 2023
Chopin's Piano with Aura Go
Jul 16, 2023
Marcia Hines is Still Shining, and Evelyn Ida Morris is extending time
Jul 15, 2023
Unbreakable Bach with Michelle Nicolle
Jul 09, 2023
Riding the waves: cosmic country, saltwater songs, and Gulu City grooves
Jul 08, 2023
From Little Things Big Things Grow
Jul 02, 2023
On the dancefloor with First Nations artists Naretha Williams and Electric Fields
Jul 01, 2023
ANOHNI & the Johnsons reborn, Sydney trio HEKKA get on the Road
Jun 25, 2023
Ragas on modular synth with Arushi Jain; and Freedman Fellow Tom Avgenicos takes us to Stringybark Creek
Jun 24, 2023
Quartet: The musical lives of four British women composers for the Big Weekend of Books
Jun 18, 2023
Pop Hooks for Big Weekend of Books
Jun 17, 2023
Remembering Kaija Saariaho
Jun 11, 2023
Max Richter Sleeps again, and Balinese electro-jazz fusion with Firetail and Gamelan DanAnda
Jun 10, 2023
Chamber music by French trailblazer Louise Farrenc and Leigh Harrold in praise of the vulnerable man
Jun 04, 2023
Little Richard & Joy Oladokun: Blackness, Queerness & faith in America
Jun 03, 2023
Shirley Collins' Octogenarian Folk Trilogy
May 28, 2023
Yazmin Lacey's Voice Notes and Balkan Jazz Fusion with East of West
May 27, 2023
Three countertenors, a sea monster, and the pianist Hania Rani
May 21, 2023
Chinese Opera from the Pear Garden and Cabaret in the Concert Hall
May 20, 2023
Madison McFerrin hopes you can forgive her and music directing 'Once' with Victoria Falconer
May 14, 2023
In The Moog
May 13, 2023
Storytelling in music: David Arden and Andrée Greenwell
May 07, 2023
Don Walker & Cash Savage
May 06, 2023
Traditional Folk and Monk Punk: Music from Japan
Apr 30, 2023
Inside the String Quartet
Apr 29, 2023
Minimal Wave, Acousmatic Waves, & Across the Waves
Apr 23, 2023
The Brodsky Quartet at 50 (+1), and Nashville takes on The Rolling Stones
Apr 22, 2023
Margaret Sutherland's Inner Voice
Apr 16, 2023
Kit Downes at the piano, and Heavy Metal in the Muslim World
Apr 15, 2023
Silent Film, Loud Music
Apr 09, 2023
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Apr 08, 2023
In the Garden of Australian Dreams with Genevieve Lacey; and remembering countertenor James Bowman
Apr 02, 2023
Finding their voices: Jen Cloher and the Gesualdo Six
Apr 01, 2023
Quartet: The musical lives of four British women composers
Mar 26, 2023
An extinct instrument, Pacific Break winner Danielle, and renewal through music in Somaliland
Mar 25, 2023
Niamh Regan and Joseph Tawadros
Mar 19, 2023
Mo'Ju and The Three Seas
Mar 18, 2023
Yungchen Lhamo, Gosti and IZY live at WOMADelaide
Mar 12, 2023
San Salvador, Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn and Constantinople live at WOMADelaide
Mar 11, 2023
The Cage Project & Remembering Wayne Shorter
Mar 05, 2023
50 years of the Kronos Quartet & Christian Thompson's Recital
Mar 04, 2023
Vieux Farke Touré & Rainbow Chan
Feb 26, 2023
Party Dozen & Jordi Savall
Feb 25, 2023
Pop Hooks
Feb 19, 2023
Nico Muhly & Throat Pleats
Feb 18, 2023
Dances across the Indian Ocean
Feb 12, 2023
Staying inside with Andrew Bird, surfing a jazz wave with Freyja Garbett, and remembering Burt Bacharach
Feb 11, 2023
Blick Bassy on Afrofuturism, and father and son Marcel and Rami Khalifé
Feb 05, 2023
Inspiration and intention on the sax, and hopes pinned on the new Cultural Policy?
Feb 04, 2023
Kyla Matsuura-Miller looks forward and M. Ward looks back
Jan 29, 2023
Kutcha Edwards and BUMPY
Jan 28, 2023
Rivers, rhythm and rhyme with DOBBY
Jan 22, 2023
Peter Gabriel and Monique Clare
Jan 21, 2023
New Orleans: a jazz story
Jan 15, 2023
Miriam Margolyes and Lois Peeler
Jan 14, 2023
The Folk
Jan 08, 2023
Kae Tempest and Jack Liebeck
Jan 07, 2023
Jazz Standards
Jan 01, 2023
Marlon Williams and Hantu
Dec 31, 2022
Elliott Carter's Late Music
Dec 25, 2022
Montaigne & Kristin Berardi
Dec 24, 2022
Teeny Tiny Stevies on writing music for kids, and Mary Finsterer's Antarctica
Dec 18, 2022
Kerryn Fields and Martin Bresnick
Dec 17, 2022
When Music Mattered
Dec 11, 2022
Magic Dirt's Adalita, Castalia Vocal Consort and actor Michael Sheen
Dec 10, 2022
Courtney Barnett on 10 years of Milk! Records and new elemental music with Elliott Gyger
Dec 04, 2022
Georgia Maq and remembering Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie
Dec 03, 2022
Liza Lim and Aristea Mellos: Australian composers in focus
Nov 27, 2022
Violinist Véronique Serret
Nov 26, 2022
Rising jazz star Minnie Hill and Blak matriarch BARKAA
Nov 20, 2022
Felix Riebl unplugged
Nov 19, 2022
Composer Samuel Adams in a vast landscape, and the radical history of French art song
Nov 13, 2022
Lisa Moore and Elena Kats-Chernin
Nov 12, 2022
Soprano and composer Jane Sheldon, and the remarkable life of violinist Alma Moodie
Nov 06, 2022
The C melody saxophone's comeback, and Merinda Dias-Jayasinha's creative voice
Nov 05, 2022
Singing the news of death, and an exhibition of 1990s alternative rock
Oct 30, 2022
Revolver revamped
Oct 29, 2022
Prolific composer and folk song collector—Ralph Vaughan Williams at 150
Oct 23, 2022
Singer-songwriter and cellist Monique Clare, and The Tallis Scholars
Oct 22, 2022
Shakuhachi Hildegard and South Australian landscapes in song
Oct 16, 2022
Leonard Cohen reworked, and the political power of drumming
Oct 15, 2022
Debussy and Ravel reimagined for viola and The Whitetop Mountaineers
Oct 09, 2022
Desert rock from Tamikrest and the deep blues of Marlene Cummins
Oct 08, 2022
Peter Knight's Shadow Phase and Anne Boyd's Olive Pink opera
Oct 02, 2022
Singing the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and Alex G's menagerie
Oct 01, 2022
Makaya McCraven's jazz for these times, Western Sydney Philharmonic
Sep 25, 2022
June Jones’ Pop Music For Normal Women and Britten’s Canticles for the stage
Sep 24, 2022
Scottish music in the Australian landscape
Sep 18, 2022
Olli Mustonen's piano and Andrew Tuttle's cosmic banjo
Sep 17, 2022
Marlon Williams' joyful return, and Hantu's broken zither
Sep 11, 2022
Movement and language with Eric Avery, Elsy Wameyo and Tom Avgenicos
Sep 10, 2022
Honouring Nigel Butterley
Sep 04, 2022
Julian Belbachir's African fusion and Nora Brown's old-time banjo
Sep 03, 2022
Veteran songwriter Gilbert O’Sullivan and soprano Samuel Mariño
Aug 28, 2022
Montaigne is making it! Robert Macfarlane’s opera career is not over
Aug 27, 2022
The trees that make music, the landscapes that inspire Mark Simeon Ferguson, and the music of Myanmar’s forgotten war
Aug 21, 2022
Sam Teskey's Cycles and Yeol Eum Son's recitals
Aug 20, 2022
Singing the praises of Judith Durham and Olivia Newton-John, and tackling Pierrot lunaire
Aug 14, 2022
Freak out in a Moonage Daydream & keep calm with violinist Ray Chen
Aug 13, 2022
A Motown Records revue
Aug 07, 2022
Remembering Archie Roach
Aug 06, 2022
An Australian punk revolution and songwriter Liz Stringer
Jul 31, 2022
Kristin Berardi & Jack Liebeck
Jul 30, 2022
Reworking a Yiddish songbook, and violinist Hilary Hahn
Jul 24, 2022
The life and music of George Michael, and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Jul 23, 2022
Behind the scenes at Sydney Opera House's renovated Concert Hall
Jul 17, 2022
Wet Leg play live and Allan Clayton takes you on A Winter’s Journey
Jul 16, 2022
Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!
Jul 10, 2022
Dr Lois Peeler's life in music, and truth-telling album Restless Dream
Jul 09, 2022
Aaron Wyatt on the podium and DRMNGNOW on Country
Jul 03, 2022
Stay tuned: 90 years of music on ABC airwaves
Jul 02, 2022
Elliott Carter’s Late Music
Jun 26, 2022
Putting words to music, inventing instruments, and delving into George Harrison’s archives
Jun 25, 2022
Rock & roll trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Anna Goldsworthy on culture and education
Jun 19, 2022
Perfume Genius’s Ugly Season and Major Zulu’s Personal Revolution
Jun 18, 2022
New Orleans: a jazz story
Jun 12, 2022
Sharon Van Etten, Maatakitj & the return of Dean Stevenson's 4pm
Jun 11, 2022
So Happy Birthday Laurie Anderson
Jun 05, 2022
Rivers, rhythm and rhyme with DOBBY
Jun 04, 2022
Synths and Sixxens: Jono Ma, Vangelis and Xenakis
May 29, 2022
ACO violinist Satu Vänskä goes underground, and Midori Takada's ambient masterpiece
May 28, 2022
Leyla McCalla and Danny Elfman
May 22, 2022
Miriam Margolyes and Alison Wonderland
May 21, 2022
Tailoring a composition—live from ANAM Set Festival
May 15, 2022
A survey of Australian composition and performance—live from ANAM Set Festival
May 14, 2022
The Music Show is live at the ANAM Set Festival
May 14, 2022
Simon Tedeschi’s Fugitive & Keep Hawai’i Hawaiian
May 08, 2022
King Curly in the studio and electronic choral project Aphir
May 07, 2022
Sunny Kim’s MotherTongue, MotherLand and Philip Glass and Leonard Cohen’s Book of Longing
May 01, 2022
Horomona Horo and Māori taonga pūoro
Apr 30, 2022
Remembering Harrison Birtwistle
Apr 24, 2022
Charles Mingus at 100 and Beethoven's hearing loss
Apr 23, 2022
The Folk
Apr 17, 2022
Rap matriarch BARKAA and crossing the Borderlands with Van Diemen's Band's Julia Fredersdorff
Apr 16, 2022
Jazz standards
Apr 10, 2022
Kae Tempest and passing the torch at the National Folk Festival
Apr 09, 2022
Ruth Slenczynska's life in music
Apr 03, 2022
Jude Perl & Chloe Lankshear
Apr 02, 2022
Drummer and curator Laurence Pike, and writers on the albums that shaped them
Mar 27, 2022
Korngold's Symphony and Mara Schwerdtfeger's world of sound
Mar 26, 2022
Katie Yap's viola world and remembering jazz singer Barbara Morrison
Mar 20, 2022
Jenny Hval's musical language and Melissa Aldana's introspective jazz
Mar 19, 2022
WOMADelaide 2022: Balkan Ethno Orchestra, Gaby Moreno & Dhungala Baarka
Mar 13, 2022
WOMADelaide 2022: Chikchika, Grace Barbé, Farhan Shah & Sufi-Oz
Mar 12, 2022
Peter Gabriel and 30 years of WOMADelaide
Mar 06, 2022
Chineke! and Inni-K
Mar 05, 2022
Yoko Ono's Ocean Child and Olivia Davies' In Waves
Feb 27, 2022
Nigel Butterley remembered
Feb 26, 2022
Matthew Locke’s flat consorts and Kym Pitman’s songwriting in the Australian landscape
Feb 20, 2022
Jaime Martin picks up the baton at the MSO and Jamie Perera sonifies the Anthropocene
Feb 19, 2022
Tonya Lemoh uncovers Raymond Hanson, and John Adams at 75
Feb 13, 2022
Chanteuse Carla Lippis, remembering George Crumb and meeting the musette
Feb 12, 2022
Folk legend Norma Waterson remembered, Maria Moles’ kulintang inspired album, and the future of classical record labels
Feb 06, 2022
Forenzically analysing Split Enz, and real deal Grace Cummings
Feb 05, 2022
Pioneering women screen composers and Piazzolla's accordion
Jan 30, 2022
Elvis Costello, and conducting a musical on the fly
Jan 29, 2022
Joni Mitchell's Blue at 50 and the uncategorisable Hiatus Kaiyote
Jan 23, 2022
Ziggy Ramo and Tapestry
Jan 22, 2022
Mama Alto and Caroline Shaw
Jan 16, 2022
Femi Kuti's music and message, and Martha Marlow's stunning debut
Jan 15, 2022
New traditions—Northern Irish trio TRÚ and Buryat singer Namgar
Jan 09, 2022
Queer electropop in Auslan, and Easter Island's first concert pianist
Jan 08, 2022