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Barrie Kosky and Poulenc's Dialogues des Carm茅lites

The latest news and features from the classical music world. Tom Service speaks to the CBSO's chief conductor, Kazuki Yamada.

As the CBSO prepares for a summer of tours to Aldeburgh, Japan, and the 麻豆官网首页入口 Proms, the orchestra鈥檚 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鈥檚 Dialogues des Carm茅lites. He鈥檚 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 鈥� a collaboration between the Royal Ballet鈥檚 resident choreographer Wayne McGregor and composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir. They discuss the somatic relationship between body, dance and music, and why listening to Thorvaldsdottir鈥檚 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鈥檚 creative relationship with the composer William Walton 鈥� a collaboration which resulted in the entertainment, Fa莽ade. He鈥檚 also joined by writer and researcher Lucy Walker. Together they discuss the work鈥檚 nonsensical parody of popular music, jazz, and poetry and knotty issues it presents to contemporary audiences.

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