Music Matters Episodes Available now

Welcome to the stage
Kate explores the life and legacy of Alma Mahler

Pekka Kuusisto
Tom meets Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto.

Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all
Tom meets conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Composer Kaija Saariaho inspired by TS Eliot.

Stephen Kovacevich, Thomas Ades and Howard Skempton
Tom talks to pianist Stephen Kovacevich and composer Thomas Ades.

Stockhausen: Cosmic Prophet
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Stockhausen's legacy, Baudelaire, and the Hum of the World.

Being seen, being heard
Kate Molleson talks to Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla. Music fan clubs. Folk singer Josephine Foster

Serious fun
Singer Rosalind Plowright, 18th-century Scottish music theorists and a biography of Dukas.

Transgender opera singers, harpsichords and Billy Budd
Sara Mohr-Pietsch speaks to transgender singers from around the world.

Michael Tippett and Ukrainian polyphony
A new biography on composer Michael Tippett and the Ukrainian polyphony project.

Music without compromise
Tom meets Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili.