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As the CBSO prepares for a summer of tours to Aldeburgh, Japan, and the BBC Proms, the orchestra\\u2019s new Chief Conductor Kazuki Yamada speaks to presenter Tom Service about the joy of music and the goosebumps he experiences while conducting.

Tom travels to the South Downs to speak to Australian director Barrie Kosky about a new production, opening this weekend at Glyndebourne, of Poulenc\\u2019s Dialogues des Carm\\xe9lites. He\\u2019s joined by sopranos Golda Schultz and Sally Matthews, as well as conductor Robin Ticciati, to talk about the story of sixteen nuns who meet their death at the hands of the French Revolution.

Amid rehearsals at the Royal Opera House, Music Matters hears about the World Premiere of a new ballet, Untitled 2023 \\u2013 a collaboration between the Royal Ballet\\u2019s resident choreographer Wayne McGregor and composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir. They discuss the somatic relationship between body, dance and music, and why listening to Thorvaldsdottir\\u2019s compositions is not a passive experience.

And one hundred years after its premiere at the Aeolian Hall in June 1923, Tom speaks to the writer and broadcaster William Sitwell about his great-aunt Edith Sitwell\\u2019s creative relationship with the composer William Walton \\u2013 a collaboration which resulted in the entertainment, Fa\\xe7ade. He\\u2019s also joined by writer and researcher Lucy Walker. Together they discuss the work\\u2019s nonsensical parody of popular music, jazz, and poetry and knotty issues it presents to contemporary audiences.