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Music Matters

Music Matters

The latest news on classical music. Interviews with key UK and international performers, composers, directors, conductors and musicians. With features on opera, jazz, world and community music making. BBC Radio 3's 45 minute music magazine show presented by Tom Service and Petroc Trelawny. Broadcast every Saturday at 12.15pm (exc. last Sat in month). Please note, this podcast is only available in the UK.

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  • Purcell Special Nov '09

    Sat, 21 Nov 09

    Duration:
    44 mins

    This is a Music Matters special edition celebrating the 350th anniversary of Henry Purcell’s birth. Tom Service looks at Purcell’s legacy, and how his music has continued to influence British composers until the present day with contributions from Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, Michael Nyman and from the archives Britten and Tippett. Other contributions include Andrew Parrott talking about Purcell’s reputation at the time of his death, the American choreographer Mark Morris talking about his approaches to staging Purcell, and finally, Nicholas Kenyon and James Bowman discuss Purcell’s influences and his word setting. The programme also visits a school in York that’s using an education project featuring the music of Purcell.

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