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Presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch speaks to one of the most treasured and celebrated British mezzo-sopranos, Dame Janet Baker. Following the recent celebrations of her 90th birthday, she reflects on her life in music, the physical and mental toll of performance, and a singer\\u2019s responsibility to always serve both the composer and the musical score.

Serving the score of Rodgers & Hammerstein\\u2019s Oklahoma!, the much-lauded conductor John Wilson joins Sara to discuss his sumptuous new album - the first ever complete recording of the musical\\u2019s original Broadway manuscript. He explains the painstaking research behind the restoration of Robert Russell Bennett\\u2019s original orchestrations, how he approaches the task of preparing repertoire for the stage, and how to create the magical sound of musical theatre during its \\u2018golden age\\u2019 in the 1940s.

Recently returned from filming concerts performed for soldiers fighting on the frontline, the BBC correspondent Mark Urban tells Music Matters about the current situation inside Ukraine. Sara speaks to composer and performer Ihor Zavhorodnii, and violinist Vera Lytovschenko, about their efforts to bring musical relief to residents in schools, hospitals and bomb shelters, and hears how they\\u2019re trying to reach and serve audiences inside their war-torn country. She hears, too, from the Chief Music Editor of Ukrainian Public Radio\\u2019s cultural station, Oleksandr Piriyev, who describes how he\\u2019s promoting Ukrainian music through the European Broadcasting Union.