Music Matters

By BBC Radio 3

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The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters


Episode Date
Sir Mark Elder
Mar 23, 2024
Aurora Orchestra's Winterreise, Kerry Andrew, and Women at the Piano
Mar 09, 2024
Joyce DiDonato, Caroline Potter on Boulez, Szymanowski's Harnasie
Mar 02, 2024
Jeremy Denk and Missy Mazzoli
Feb 24, 2024
Anna Meredith, Igor Levit
Feb 10, 2024
Tamara Stefanovich, Martin Hayes
Feb 03, 2024
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Alice Sara Ott, Bryce Dessner
Jan 27, 2024
Karita Mattila and Edgar Meyer
Jan 20, 2024
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Jan 13, 2024
Meredith Monk
Jan 06, 2024
Budapest: György Kurtág, Ivan Fischer and Márta Sebestyén
Dec 12, 2023
Anthony McGill, Imogen Cooper and Weelkes
Nov 25, 2023
The new Bernstein film Maestro
Nov 18, 2023
Christian Thielemann, Angélique Kidjo, National Brass Band Championships
Oct 21, 2023
Dame Janet Baker
Sep 16, 2023
Abel Selaocoe, Leif Ove Andsnes
Sep 09, 2023
Elim Chan, 400 years of William Byrd
Jul 01, 2023
Windrush 75, Nicole Paiement, Nigel Brooks
Jun 17, 2023
Barrie Kosky and Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites
Jun 10, 2023
Brad Mehldau, François-Xavier Roth
Jun 03, 2023
Ivan Fischer, Ligeti Centenary
May 27, 2023
Terence Blanchard, Simon Armitage
May 20, 2023
Rhiannon Giddens, Christian Gerhaher, Gong Baths
May 13, 2023
Nicola Benedetti, Gorecki Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Apr 29, 2023
John Eliot Gardiner at 80
Apr 15, 2023
Classical music in British society
Apr 08, 2023
Rachmaninov on Lake Lucerne
Apr 01, 2023
Anna Clyne, Pekka Kuusisto, Martin Fröst
Mar 25, 2023
Evelyn Glennie
Feb 18, 2023
Lea Desandre, Sonic Meditations and The Rhinegold
Feb 11, 2023
Dobrinka Tabakova, CBSO School, Symphonies of 1933
Jan 28, 2023
Lise Davidsen
Jan 21, 2023
John Rutter
Jan 10, 2023
Kaija Saariaho
Jan 07, 2023
Ailish Tynan, older people and music, Beethoven in Russia, UK Music diversity report
Nov 26, 2022
Alice Sara Ott, Climate Change, and Qatar
Nov 19, 2022
Tine Thing Helseth, London Jazz Festival and Arts Council England Funding
Nov 12, 2022
Katia and Marielle Labèque
Nov 05, 2022
Music theatre and the art of melancholy
Oct 29, 2022
Rachel Podger
Oct 22, 2022
Music in Northern Ireland
Oct 15, 2022
Music and Mental Health
Oct 08, 2022
The musical life of Blackpool
Jul 09, 2022
Music in a changing world
Jul 02, 2022
Tyshawn Sorey, Esther Abrami, Alma Deutscher, John Mauceri
Jun 11, 2022
Sir Bryn Terfel
Jun 04, 2022
Freddie De Tommaso, Andre J Thomas
May 28, 2022
Michael Tilson Thomas, Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers
May 21, 2022
Vaughan Williams Today
May 14, 2022
Martin Fröst, SongPath, Beckett and Russia
Apr 16, 2022
Bobby McFerrin, Mari Kalkun, The Handmaid's Tale
Apr 02, 2022
Ludovico Einaudi, Peter Grimes, Anna Clyne
Mar 19, 2022
Art centres, Giovanni Antonini, Opera and food
Feb 26, 2022
Beatrice Rana, The Ordering of Moses, Claude Debussy and Emma Bardac
Feb 19, 2022
Holding onto Musical Traditions
Feb 05, 2022
Tabea Zimmermann, Femi Elufowoju jr, Maria Yudina
Jan 22, 2022
Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Lebanon
Dec 18, 2021
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Elizabeth Llewellyn
Dec 11, 2021
André Rieu, Pavel Kolesnikov, Gold.Berg.Werk
Nov 27, 2021
Manchester Camerata at The Monastery in Gorton
Nov 20, 2021
Music and the Environment
Nov 06, 2021
Life, Music, Silence
Oct 23, 2021
Minimalism, Laurence Crane at 60 & Nina Simone's Gum
Oct 16, 2021
Contains Strong Language
Sep 27, 2021
Music and Activism
Sep 18, 2021
Music Under Restriction
Sep 11, 2021
Musical Connection
Jul 24, 2021
Writers on Music
Jul 18, 2021
Politics, possibilities and epiphanies
Jul 03, 2021
Musical Strength
Jun 19, 2021
Coventry UK City of Culture 2021
Jun 12, 2021
Music in the Moment
May 29, 2021
Dennis Brain, Anthony Payne, and music’s healing nature.
May 15, 2021
Musical Ecosystems
May 08, 2021
The Conductors' Edition
May 01, 2021
A life in music
Apr 17, 2021
Music under threat in Kabul
Mar 27, 2021
The fierce joys of Spring
Mar 20, 2021
Sandrine Piau, Geraldine Mucha, Steven Isserlis
Mar 06, 2021
How music sculpts memory
Feb 20, 2021
Jackie Kay, Meredith Monk and Virtual Nature
Jan 30, 2021
Democracy from Wynton Marsalis
Jan 16, 2021
Light at the end of the tunnel
Jan 09, 2021
The Lark Ascending
Dec 12, 2020
The Human Connection
Nov 28, 2020
Sam Amidon; US-USSR ballet exchange; music streaming; lockdown postcards
Nov 21, 2020
Focus on freelance musicians
Nov 14, 2020
Classical music and climate change
Oct 31, 2020
A global temperature
Oct 24, 2020
Stars and Strads
Oct 03, 2020
Changing perspectives
Sep 26, 2020
Music changes lives - and changes lanes
Sep 19, 2020
Roll-up, roll-up! Live music’s back…
Sep 05, 2020
Race, equality and classical music
Jul 11, 2020
Mahler's 8th Symphony
Jun 27, 2020
Will classical music survive Covid?
Jun 21, 2020
Mark Anthony Turnage at 60
Jun 06, 2020
Music and mental health
May 23, 2020
Jonathan Biss, Elizabeth Kenny, Susanna Malkki and Cheer Up!
May 09, 2020
Ravi Shankar at 100
Apr 25, 2020
An organ fest for a silent Easter
Apr 11, 2020
François-Frédéric Guy
Apr 04, 2020
Musical communication
Mar 21, 2020
Vikingur Olafsson, ENO Figaro, Prokofiev operas
Mar 14, 2020
Fidelio
Feb 29, 2020
The secret life of musical instruments
Feb 22, 2020
Going with the flow
Feb 15, 2020
Roger Norrington
Feb 04, 2020
Choreographic, operatic and symphonic revelations
Jan 25, 2020
Musical communion
Jan 18, 2020
Internationalism
Jan 11, 2020
The 21st century comes of age
Dec 14, 2019
Angela Gheorghiu, Mariss Jansons, La Traviata, Rossini
Dec 07, 2019
Shifting cultures and musical crucibles
Nov 30, 2019
Cultural Choices and Musical Chalices...
Nov 23, 2019
The Future
Nov 02, 2019
New York Special
Oct 19, 2019
The Orpheus myth
Sep 28, 2019
Season finale
Jul 13, 2019
Pekka Kuusisto
Jun 01, 2019
Stephen Kovacevich, Thomas Ades and Howard Skempton
May 18, 2019
Hel's Deep and Mountains High
Feb 23, 2019
Bohemia, Berio, and Bowing Out
Dec 01, 2018
Punching Above Your Weight: Bassoons and Boxing, Dundee and Helsinki
Nov 24, 2018
Memory, Loss, and Music’s Universal Power
Nov 10, 2018
Whisky, Beethoven and Crocodiles
Oct 27, 2018
Passion, Masks and Parry
Oct 06, 2018
Bernstein's New York
Aug 25, 2018
Chicago: Yo-Yo Ma and Riccardo Muti
Jun 16, 2018
Christopher Purves
Jun 02, 2018
Laurie Anderson
Apr 14, 2018
Christophe Rousset
Feb 24, 2018
Is Iceland the world's most musical country?
Feb 03, 2018
Music on the Catalonia crisis; Book on Creative Brain; our musical lives on the internet; and Uri CaineDD
Nov 04, 2017
Sir Andras Schiff, BCMG at 30, Tom Phillips, Netia Jones, This is Rattle
Sep 16, 2017
Semyon Bychkov, New Music Biennial, Music and Landscape Architecture
Jul 01, 2017
Grace Bumbry, Audra McDonald, Bill Fontana
Jun 17, 2017
Thomas Ades and Gerald Barry, Sgt Pepper at 50, Guto Puw and Welsh-language music
May 27, 2017
Monteverdi 450: Monteverdi the Radical
May 13, 2017
Nikolaj Znaider, Philip Glass - Music in Twelve Parts, Daryl Runswick
Apr 29, 2017
Andreas Haefliger, Monastic Music
Apr 15, 2017
Daniel Barenboim: 'The ABC of music-making is listening'
Mar 13, 2017
Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla at CBSO
Feb 11, 2017
Milton Babbitt: Changing the way we think about music
Dec 19, 2016
Busoni: music’s forgotten visionary
Dec 03, 2016
The sound of mortality
Nov 23, 2016
Kristjan Jarvi, Viola Tunnard and Sally Beamish
Oct 15, 2016
Sounds of Shakespeare
Apr 25, 2016