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Music Matters

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Budapest: Gyorgy Kurtag, Ivan Fischer and Marta Sebestyen

Published: Dec. 12, 2023, 1:23 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 19 seconds

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UK Disability History Month, Maria Callas

Published: Dec. 2, 2023, 12:31 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 16 seconds

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Anthony McGill, Imogen Cooper and Weelkes

Published: Nov. 25, 2023, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 12 seconds

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The new Bernstein film Maestro

Published: Nov. 18, 2023, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 4 seconds

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Christian Thielemann, Angelique Kidjo, National Brass Band Championships

Published: Oct. 21, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 11 seconds

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Dame Janet Baker

Published: Sept. 16, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 20 seconds

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Abel Selaocoe, Leif Ove Andsnes

Published: Sept. 9, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 5 seconds

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Elim Chan, 400 years of William Byrd

Published: July 1, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 10 seconds

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Windrush 75, Nicole Paiement, Nigel Brooks

Published: June 17, 2023, 10:45 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 38 seconds

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Barrie Kosky and Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites

Published: June 10, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 8 seconds

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Brad Mehldau, Francois-Xavier Roth

Published: June 3, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 11 seconds

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Ivan Fischer, Ligeti Centenary

Published: May 27, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 3 seconds

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Terence Blanchard, Simon Armitage

Published: May 20, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 59 seconds

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Rhiannon Giddens, Christian Gerhaher, Gong Baths

Published: May 13, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 3 seconds

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Nicola Benedetti, Gorecki Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

Published: April 29, 2023, 11:15 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 4 seconds

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John Eliot Gardiner at 80

Published: April 15, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes

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Classical music in British society

Published: April 8, 2023, 10:45 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 56 seconds

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Rachmaninov on Lake Lucerne

Published: April 1, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 14 seconds

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Anna Clyne, Pekka Kuusisto, Martin Frost

Published: March 25, 2023, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 55 seconds

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Evelyn Glennie

Published: Feb. 18, 2023, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 57 seconds

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Lea Desandre, Sonic Meditations and The Rhinegold

Published: Feb. 11, 2023, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 54 seconds

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Dobrinka Tabakova, CBSO School, Symphonies of 1933

Published: Jan. 28, 2023, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 3 seconds

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Lise Davidsen

Published: Jan. 21, 2023, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 5 seconds

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John Rutter

Published: Jan. 10, 2023, 3:05 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 42 seconds

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Kaija Saariaho

Published: Jan. 7, 2023, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 48 seconds

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Ailish Tynan, older people and music, Beethoven in Russia, UK Music diversity report

Published: Nov. 26, 2022, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 1 second

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Alice Sara Ott, Climate Change, and Qatar

Published: Nov. 19, 2022, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 13 seconds

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Tine Thing Helseth, London Jazz Festival and Arts Council England Funding

Published: Nov. 12, 2022, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 47 seconds

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Katia and Marielle Labeque

Published: Nov. 5, 2022, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 3 seconds

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Music theatre and the art of melancholy

Published: Oct. 29, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 45 seconds

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Rachel Podger

Published: Oct. 22, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 2 seconds

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Music in Northern Ireland

Published: Oct. 15, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 13 seconds

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The musical life of Blackpool

Published: July 9, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 28 seconds

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Music in a changing world

Published: July 2, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 46 seconds

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Tyshawn Sorey, Esther Abrami, Alma Deutscher, John Mauceri

Published: June 11, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 5 seconds

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Sir Bryn Terfel

Published: June 4, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 56 seconds

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Freddie De Tommaso, Andre J Thomas

Published: May 28, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 59 seconds

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Michael Tilson Thomas, Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers

Published: May 21, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 10 seconds

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Vaughan Williams Today

Published: May 14, 2022, 11:15 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 3 seconds

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Martin Frost, SongPath, Beckett and Russia

Published: April 16, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 52 seconds

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Bobby McFerrin, Mari Kalkun, The Handmaid's Tale

Published: April 2, 2022, 10:50 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 5 seconds

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Ludovico Einaudi, Peter Grimes, Anna Clyne

Published: March 19, 2022, 12:31 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes

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Art centres, Giovanni Antonini, Opera and food

Published: Feb. 26, 2022, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 54 seconds

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Beatrice Rana, The Ordering of Moses, Claude Debussy and Emma Bardac

Published: Feb. 19, 2022, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 1 second

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Holding onto Musical Traditions

Published: Feb. 5, 2022, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes

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Tabea Zimmermann, Femi Elufowoju jr, Maria Yudina

Published: Jan. 22, 2022, noon
Duration: 44 minutes 6 seconds

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Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Lebanon

Published: Dec. 18, 2021, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 3 seconds

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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Elizabeth Llewellyn

Published: Dec. 11, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 5 seconds

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Andre Rieu, Pavel Kolesnikov, Gold.Berg.Werk

Published: Nov. 27, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 53 seconds

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Manchester Camerata at The Monastery in Gorton

Published: Nov. 20, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 1 second

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Music and the Environment

Published: Nov. 6, 2021, 12:45 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 11 seconds

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Life, Music, Silence

Published: Oct. 23, 2021, 10:45 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 54 seconds

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Minimalism, Laurence Crane at 60 & Nina Simone's Gum

Published: Oct. 16, 2021, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 16 seconds

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Contains Strong Language

Published: Sept. 27, 2021, 11:28 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 2 seconds

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Music and Activism

Published: Sept. 18, 2021, 11:15 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 4 seconds

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Music Under Restriction

Published: Sept. 11, 2021, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 10 seconds

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Musical Connection

Published: July 24, 2021, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 55 seconds

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Writers on Music

Published: July 18, 2021, 11:15 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 51 seconds

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Politics, possibilities and epiphanies

Published: July 3, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 54 seconds

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Musical Strength

Published: June 19, 2021, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 56 seconds

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Coventry UK City of Culture 2021

Published: June 12, 2021, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 3 seconds

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Music in the Moment

Published: May 29, 2021, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 54 seconds

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Dennis Brain, Anthony Payne, and musics healing nature.

Published: May 15, 2021, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 2 seconds

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Musical Ecosystems

Published: May 8, 2021, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 15 seconds

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The Conductors' Edition

Published: May 1, 2021, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 51 seconds

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A life in music

Published: April 17, 2021, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes

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Music under threat in Kabul

Published: March 27, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 11 seconds

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The fierce joys of Spring

Published: March 20, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 51 seconds

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Celebrating a century of Astor Piazzolla

Published: March 13, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 56 seconds

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Sandrine Piau, Geraldine Mucha, Steven Isserlis

Published: March 6, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 23 seconds

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Anne Queffélec

Published: Feb. 27, 2021, 12:31 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 47 seconds

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How music sculpts memory

Published: Feb. 20, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 8 seconds

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Uighur culture, Richard Tognetti, business models

Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 10:22 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 47 seconds

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Girl power in the 1940s

Published: Feb. 6, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 2 seconds

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Jackie Kay, Meredith Monk and Virtual Nature

Published: Jan. 30, 2021, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 51 seconds

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

Published: Jan. 23, 2021, 12:31 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 51 seconds

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Democracy from Wynton Marsalis

Published: Jan. 16, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 8 seconds

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Light at the end of the tunnel

Published: Jan. 9, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 58 seconds

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Music and myth, silence and AI

Published: Dec. 19, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 54 seconds

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The Lark Ascending

Published: Dec. 12, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 10 seconds

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The Human Connection

Published: Nov. 28, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 1 second

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

Published: Nov. 21, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 56 seconds

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Focus on freelance musicians

Published: Nov. 14, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 42 seconds

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Classical music and climate change

Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 59 seconds

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A global temperature

Published: Oct. 24, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 51 seconds

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Stars and Strads

Published: Oct. 3, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 55 seconds

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Changing perspectives

Published: Sept. 26, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes

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Music changes lives - and changes lanes

Published: Sept. 19, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 55 seconds

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Roll-up, roll-up! Live musics back...

Published: Sept. 5, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 3 seconds

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Race, equality and classical music

Published: July 11, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 31 seconds

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Mahler's 8th Symphony

Published: June 27, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 51 seconds

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Will classical music survive Covid?

Published: June 21, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 59 seconds

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Mark Anthony Turnage at 60

Published: June 6, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 58 seconds

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Music and mental health

Published: May 23, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 34 seconds

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Jonathan Biss, Elizabeth Kenny, Susanna Malkki and Cheer Up!

Published: May 9, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 39 seconds

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Ravi Shankar at 100

Published: April 25, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 48 seconds

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An organ fest for a silent Easter

Published: April 11, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 19 seconds

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Francois-Frederic Guy

Published: April 4, 2020, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 47 seconds

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Musical communication

Published: March 21, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 56 seconds

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Vikingur Olafsson, ENO Figaro, Prokofiev operas

Published: March 14, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 6 seconds

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Fidelio

Published: Feb. 29, 2020, noon
Duration: 43 minutes 51 seconds

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The secret life of musical instruments

Published: Feb. 22, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 42 seconds

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Going with the flow

Published: Feb. 15, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 45 seconds

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Roger Norrington

Published: Feb. 4, 2020, 11:51 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 42 seconds

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Choreographic, operatic and symphonic revelations

Published: Jan. 25, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 50 seconds

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Musical communion

Published: Jan. 18, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 25 seconds

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Internationalism

Published: Jan. 11, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 4 seconds

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The 21st century comes of age

Published: Dec. 14, 2019, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 53 seconds

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Angela Gheorghiu, Mariss Jansons, La Traviata, Rossini

Published: Dec. 7, 2019, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 46 seconds

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Shifting cultures and musical crucibles

Published: Nov. 30, 2019, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 41 seconds

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Cultural Choices and Musical Chalices...

Published: Nov. 23, 2019, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 51 seconds

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The Future

Published: Nov. 2, 2019, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 19 seconds

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New York Special

Published: Oct. 19, 2019, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 34 seconds

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The Orpheus myth

Published: Sept. 28, 2019, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 45 seconds

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Season finale

Published: July 13, 2019, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 47 seconds

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Pekka Kuusisto

Published: June 1, 2019, 10:45 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 17 seconds

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Stephen Kovacevich, Thomas Ades and Howard Skempton

Published: May 18, 2019, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 11 seconds

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Hel's Deep and Mountains High

Published: Feb. 23, 2019, 1:02 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 28 seconds

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Bohemia, Berio, and Bowing Out

Published: Dec. 1, 2018, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 55 seconds

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Punching Above Your Weight: Bassoons and Boxing, Dundee and Helsinki

Published: Nov. 24, 2018, 1:02 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 10 seconds

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Memory, Loss, and Musics Universal Power

Published: Nov. 10, 2018, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 50 seconds

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Whisky, Beethoven and Crocodiles

Published: Oct. 27, 2018, noon
Duration: 44 minutes 11 seconds

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Passion, Masks and Parry

Published: Oct. 6, 2018, 12:02 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 28 seconds

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Bernstein's New York

Published: Aug. 25, 2018, 12:02 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 22 seconds

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Chicago: Yo-Yo Ma and Riccardo Muti

Published: June 16, 2018, 11:55 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 48 seconds

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Christopher Purves

Published: June 2, 2018, 11:25 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 2 seconds

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Laurie Anderson

Published: April 14, 2018, 12:05 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 21 seconds

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Christophe Rousset

Published: Feb. 24, 2018, 12:55 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 49 seconds

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Is Iceland the world's most musical country?

Published: Feb. 3, 2018, 1 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 1 second

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Music on the Catalonia crisis; Book on Creative Brain; our musical lives on the internet; and Uri CaineDD

Published: Nov. 4, 2017, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 5 seconds

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Sir Andras Schiff, BCMG at 30, Tom Phillips, Netia Jones, This is Rattle

Published: Sept. 16, 2017, noon
Duration: 43 minutes 40 seconds

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Semyon Bychkov, New Music Biennial, Music and Landscape Architecture

Published: July 1, 2017, 11:15 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 39 seconds

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Grace Bumbry, Audra McDonald, Bill Fontana

Published: June 17, 2017, 11:45 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 57 seconds

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Thomas Ades and Gerald Barry, Sgt Pepper at 50, Guto Puw and Welsh-language music

Published: May 27, 2017, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 29 seconds

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Monteverdi 450: Monteverdi the Radical

Published: May 13, 2017, 11:45 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 58 seconds

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Nikolaj Znaider, Philip Glass - Music in Twelve Parts, Daryl Runswick

Published: April 29, 2017, noon
Duration: 43 minutes 37 seconds

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Andreas Haefliger, Monastic Music

Published: April 15, 2017, noon
Duration: 43 minutes 50 seconds

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Daniel Barenboim: 'The ABC of music-making is listening'

Published: March 13, 2017, 10:08 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 10 seconds

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Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla at CBSO

Published: Feb. 11, 2017, 12:45 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 8 seconds

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Milton Babbitt: Changing the way we think about music

Published: Dec. 19, 2016, 10:33 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 57 seconds

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Busoni: musics forgotten visionary

Published: Dec. 3, 2016, 1 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 9 seconds

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The sound of mortality

Published: Nov. 23, 2016, 4:37 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 13 seconds

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Kristjan Jarvi, Viola Tunnard and Sally Beamish

Published: Oct. 15, 2016, noon
Duration: 44 minutes 12 seconds

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Sounds of Shakespeare

Published: April 25, 2016, 4:02 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 55 seconds

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