BBC Sounds - Music Matters - Available Episodes

A life in music

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

• 44 mins
• 17 Apr 2021

Renaud Capuçon, Cecilia McDowall, Michael Spitzer

French violinist Renaud Capuçon talks about his new recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto.

• 44 mins
• 03 Apr 2021

Music under threat in Kabul

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

• 44 mins
• 27 Mar 2021

The fierce joys of Spring

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

• 44 mins
• 20 Mar 2021

Celebrating a Century of Astor Piazzolla

Using archive, family members and musicians who played with him. Also Isabelle Faust.

• 1 min
• 13 Mar 2021

Sandrine Piau, Geraldine Mucha, Steven Isserlis

Tom Service speaks to soprano Sandrine Piau and cellist Steven Isserlis.

• 44 mins
• 06 Mar 2021

Anne Queffélec

Pianist Anne Queffelec; a book on France and trauma during wars; the Endellion Quartet.

• 44 mins
• 27 Feb 2021

How music sculpts memory

The relationships between the crafts of porcelain and contemporary composition.

• 44 mins
• 20 Feb 2021

Uighur culture, Richard Tognetti, business models

Richard Tognetti. New relationship musicians-agents? The book Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam.

• 45 mins
• 13 Feb 2021

Girl power in the 1940s

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

• 44 mins
• 06 Feb 2021

Jackie Kay, Meredith Monk and Virtual Nature

Kate Molleson talks to Meredith Monk, plus Jackie Kay on blues pioneer Bessie Smith.

• 44 mins
• 30 Jan 2021

New Music Innovators from today... and the 19th Century

Pianist Piotr Anderszewski. Songs of Fanny Hensel. Maxim Vengerov education masterclasses.

• 44 mins
• 23 Jan 2021

Democracy from Wynton Marsalis

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

• 44 mins
• 16 Jan 2021

Light at the end of the tunnel

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

• 44 mins
• 09 Jan 2021

Music and myth, silence and AI

A book on Arvo Pärt. Luminosity in music. Beethoven's curtailed celebrations.

• 44 mins
• 19 Dec 2020

The Lark Ascending

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

• 44 mins
• 12 Dec 2020

Creating music in isolation

Benjamin Grosvenor and the prophetic voice of Glenn Gould.

• 44 mins
• 05 Dec 2020

The Human Connection

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

• 44 mins
• 28 Nov 2020

Sam Amidon; US-USSR ballet exchange; music streaming; lockdown postcards

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

• 44 mins
• 21 Nov 2020

Focus on freelance musicians

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

• 44 mins
• 14 Nov 2020