Conductors
Maestros, Music Directors and masterful conductors.
"The first function there is to show your love for the music."
Tom interviews Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Broadcast March 2016.
"When I first set eyes on him, I thought this is somebody who's not duplicated anywhere on this planet."
Most often mentioned with Stravinsky, Robert Craft was also an admirer of Schoenberg.
"The Coliseum has never been a home for snobs."
Tom Service meets Mark Wigglesworth, the new music director of English National Opera.
"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.
"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.
"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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Kent Nagano
Tom Service in an in-depth interview with conductor Kent Nagano.
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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.
"I conducted my first Brahms Four the other day, at the age of 79!"
Elgar Howarth has led a multifaceted career as a conductor, composer, and instrumentalist
Riccardo Chailly
Conductor Riccardo Chailly talks to Tom Service about his life and career in music.
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"I am a musician who uses the voice like an instrument. That always was my dream and my vision of how to make music."
Celebrated contralto Nathalie Stutzmann is now forging a parallel career as a conductor.
Sir Antonio Pappano
Tom Service interviews Sir Antonio Pappano, music director of the Royal Opera House.
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"To have such a draconian cut, in comparison to other opera institutions, is bizarre."
The 2014-15 Season is Edward Gardner’s last as Music Director of English National Opera.
"That’s the problem with recordings, they’re there forever, as some kind of statement of what you believe about a piece."
Daniel Harding on his next 50 years – a conductor’s equivalent of a difficult 2nd album
"Tonality is like gravity – we cannot pretend that it doesn’t exist"
Petroc Trelawny caught up with composer, pianist and conductor Olli Mustonen.
"It's great to use your imagination with something that hasn't ever been played before."
Conductor David Zinman's career is distinguished by extraordinarily broad repertoire.
"I think he was an end, more than a beginning."
Christoph von Donhanyi talks to Tom Service about his relationship with Richard Strauss.
Christian Thielemann
Tom Service presents an extended interview with German conductor Christian Thielemann.
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Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner talks to Tom Service about his book on Bach.
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