Music Matters Interviews
A collection of interviews from Music Matters on Radio 3
Thea Musgrave
Tom Service talks to composer Thea Musgrave.
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"The moment a new singer that I've not worked with comes through the studio door, there is a process of sizing up going on"
Petroc Trelawny at the piano with accompanist Roger Vignoles, ahead of his 70th birthday
"I go round the world and I'm a spy. I have been on more than 100 juries..."
Dame Fanny Waterman, now 95, talks about her life & Leeds International Piano Competition
"Tradition for me has to be like a trampoline, to jump to somewhere. It's not to drag you down."
Italian director Damiano Michieletto talks to Tom Service before his Covent Garden debut.
Murray Perahia
Pianist Murray Perahia talks to Tom Service about the music which currently occupies him.
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"Classical Music shouldn't be something which is like a painting in a museum."
Conductor Alain Altinoglu talks to Tom Service for Music Matters, 13th June 2015.
"I saw these songs,I played them and I sang them for myself, and I fell in love!"
Dutch soprano Elly Ameling, now in her 80s, talks to Tom Service about her musical career
"We are very proud to be the bearer of this wonderful heritage."
Tom Service meets Jiri Belohlavek, chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic.
"It will never be enough simply to rely on formulaic old-school approaches"
Music Director of the New York Philharmonic Alan Gilbert talks to Tom Service.
"That is avant garde, just to be moving, but not for the sake of being ahead of something else."
Tom Service meets the German-born composer and conductor Matthias Pintscher.
"The audience is feeling they are with us on a journey when we go through these five pieces..."
The pianist Leif Ove Andsnes talks to Tom Service about his 'Beethoven Journey'.
"I love the austere, almost religious, aspects of the piano recital."
Pianist (and conservationist) Helene Grimaud spoke to Tom Service for Music Matters.
"You're seeing somebody stepping out of their own gender, and that can be incredibly exciting"
Alice Coote discusses perception of gender in opera, with director Susannah Waters.
"In everything that I'm doing, I'm trying to find a way in to the music."
Soprano & conductor Barbara Hannigan talks to Tom about her dual life & musical passions.
Mark Elder
Conductor Mark Elder talks to Petroc Trelawny about his career to-date.
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Vladimir Ashkenazy
Celebrated Russian-born pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy talks to Tom Service.
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"Just being on stage for some of those massive bits of music is just thrilling. You can feel it coming up through your feet."
Robert Lloyd, who turned 75 in 2015, talks to Petroc Trelawny about his singing career.
Kent Nagano
Tom Service in an in-depth interview with conductor Kent Nagano.
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"If you start to improvise, you have to be prepared that it could be a failure... you have to free yourself from this fear."
Tom Service talks to Viktoria Mullova, a violinist of exceptional versatility & integrity
Michael Tilson Thomas
Tom Service meets Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony.
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"Young conductors are very much in favour at the moment, but it doesn't mean you can only make your career when you're young."
Acclaimed Ukrainian conductor Kirill Karabits talks to Petroc Trelawny for Music Matters.
"We're involved in the process of finding the film. And Mike is still finding the film by the time his composer comes on board"
Gary Yershon talks to Petroc about his Oscar-nominated music for Mike Leigh's "Mr Turner"
"We're not just the opera company in the opera house."
Opera North's Richard Mantle talks about the challenges of running a touring company.
"Genre, I think, is something we can get rid of, it's not useful to anyone except for people who are writing about music"
Nico Muhly talks about 3 principles his new works must have, and musicians of the future.
