Synopsis
Highlights from BBC Radio 3s In Tune - featuring interviews with guests from the world of music and the arts. In Tune is presented by Sean Rafferty and Katie Derham.
Episodes
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John Williams
10/06/2014 Duration: 11minLegendary guitarist John Williams tells Suzy why he's not retiring, his thoughts on music teaching and why playing the guitar is like chess
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Kirill Gerstein
09/06/2014 Duration: 09minRussian American pianist Kirill Gerstein on jazz, growing up in Russia and recording the music of Mussorgsky and Schumann on his new album.
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Bernard Haitink
04/06/2014 Duration: 11minOne of the world's greatest conductors, Bernard Haitink, on his love of working with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, meeting Shostakovich, recording the first complete cycle of Shostakovich symphonies in the West, and working with young conductors in Lucerne
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Jools Holland
02/06/2014 Duration: 13minPianist, bandleader and broadcaster Jools Holland on touring with his orchestra, his love of Oscar Peterson and Duke Ellington, and making music in his Greenwich studio.
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Brenda Lucas
02/06/2014 Duration: 09minBrenda Lucas discusses her late husband, John Ogdon, one of Britain's greatest ever classical pianists, ahead of a new documentary 'Living with Genius' on BBC Four
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Iestyn Davies
28/05/2014 Duration: 16minCounter-tenor Iestyn Davies talks to Swean Rafferty about the upcoming testosterone-fuelled 'Rinaldo' at Glyndebourne this summer, with not one but THREE counter-tenors in the cast.
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Hay Literary Festival Special
28/05/2014 Duration: 34minGillian Clarke talks Welsh poetry, Ruby Wax on staying sane, William Dalrymple on the art of Mughal Delhi and Sebastian Faulks talks Birdsong. Sean Rafferty presents, live from the 2014 Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts
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Alfred Brendel
28/05/2014 Duration: 07minLegendary pianist-turned-poet Alfred Brendel talks to Sean Rafferty about music and writing, and reads some of his poems.
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Nico Muhly
21/05/2014 Duration: 07minAmerican composer Nico Muhly talks about composing liturgical music, his love of the choir and working for Philip Glass
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Chelsea Flower Show
20/05/2014 Duration: 09minSean visits the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and talks to Monty Don, Alan Titchmarsh and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen about this year's show
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Stephen Hough
19/05/2014 Duration: 14minStephen Hough talks to Sean Rafferty about the music of the night, as explored on his latest CD.
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Exponential Horn at the Science Museum
19/05/2014 Duration: 04minSean Rafferty visits the new Exponential Horn installation by sound artist Aleksander Kolkowski at the Science Museum in London. Radio 3's Lunchtime Concert and In Tune will be relayed through the enormous loudspeaker each day for the duration of the exhibition.
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Sir Antonio Pappano
15/05/2014 Duration: 12minMusic Director of the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the Royal Opera House discusses Rossini, Verdi's Requiem, concert programming and his favourite conductors
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Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil
15/05/2014 Duration: 08minMiss Saigon composer Claude-Michel Schonberg and lyricist Alain Boublil talk about the new production of the show returning to London, in its 25th anniversary year.
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Gyorgy Pauk
13/05/2014 Duration: 21minLegendary violinist Gyorgy Pauk talks to Sean about his enviable career, his work with young players and his love of London.
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Ailyn Perez and Stephen Costello
09/05/2014 Duration: 10minOpera's new 'power couple' soprano Ailyn Perez and tenor Stephen Costello talk to Suzy Klein about life together on the opera stage.
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Rosalind Plowright
07/05/2014 Duration: 09minMezzo Rosalind Plowright OBE talks about what's inspired her to record her first recital disc, her previous life as an operatic soprano and how she has always yearned to do a musical
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Angela Hewitt
01/05/2014 Duration: 10minPianist Angela Hewitt discusses Bach's Art of Fugue and upcoming gigs at Glyndebourne and Wigmore Hall.
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18th Century Art - No.8 David Garrick and his wife
01/05/2014 Duration: 04minFor the BBC 18th Century Season, Sean Rafferty looks at 12 Georgian art works from the Royal Collection at the Queen’s Gallery, guided by Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures. No.8 of 12: David Garrick and his wife. You can see all 12 art works in the 18th Century Gallery on the Radio 3 website.
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Joyce DiDonato
30/04/2014 Duration: 15minSean talks to 'the perfect modern diva' soprano Joyce DiDonato about La Cenerentola at the New York Met, and she offers sound advice on finding your own voice.