In Tune Highlights

Pianist Jonathan Biss talks to Suzy Klein about his life-long obsession with Beethoven, which has inspired not just his recordings but also his writing and a new online course he runs from the Curtis Institute. Jonathan recently released his latest recording of Beethoven on his own JB label.

Angela Hewitt drops in to the In Tune studio to play Bach as well as her new venture, Scarlatti. She talks to Suzy Klein about her upcoming Masterclasses as part of the 'It's All About Piano' festival and looks back on 20 years of Bach recordings for Hyperion.

Acclaimed Canadian pianist Louis Lortie talks to Suzy Klein about how he approaches playing Chopin, and also about his next recital of Liszt and Beethoven.

Legendary Irish mezzo-soprano, Ann Murray, talks to Suzy Klein about her farewell recital album, recorded with pianist Malcolm Martineau and members of their families.

Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley and pianist Julius Drake discuss the unique combination of styles in the songs of Liszt and their working relationship spanning the last 25 years

Suzy Klein is joined in our Salford studios by the Quebecois folk group Le Vent du Nord whose performances capture 'the energy and mirth of a Saturday night kitchen party'!

Two huge names from the jazz world, Courtney Pine (playing bass clarinet) and pianist Zoe Rahman are in the In Tune studio talking about their new album 'Song (the Ballad Book)', a stripped back and intimate collection of standards. Courtney and Zoe talk to Sean Rafferty all about how they started working together and the process of choosing the works for the album.

Sean Rafferty with ex-Colin Davis pupil and rising star conductor Ben Gernon, who is about to take the Camerata Salzburg on a tour of the UK.

Pianist Jeremy Denk talks to Sean Rafferty ahead of his concert with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields at Cadogan Hall in London. Jeremy talks about trading a life of chemistry for the piano, winning the prestigious MacArthur Genius Award and the composers he most admires.

Kurt Weill's opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny opens at the Royal Opera House soon - singers Kurt Streit and Christine Rice take a break from rehearsals to join Sean Rafferty to talk about their characters, and how mezzo-sopranos are 'quite used to playing hookers and whores'...

The Brook Street Band's cellist Tatty Theo on 18th century Leipzig coffeehouse culture - in particular, Zimmerman's Kaffeehaus and the music performed there.

The Glyndebourne season starts in May and in this podcast Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to one of the big names to look out for - tenor Edgaras Montvidas, who will be starring in Mozart's Die Entfuhrung.

Opera director Peter Sellars' new production of Purcell's Indian Queen for the ENO opens tonight. In this interview with Suzy Klein, Sellars touches upon a vast range of things, from his love of Purcell to his thoughts on the future of the ENO, and the continuing importance of the arts today.

Tenor Noah Stewart joined Suzy Klein ahead of singing in Purcell's Indian Queen at English National Opera and then Pinkerton in Puccini's Madam Butterfly at the Royal Opera House, a role in which he feels he's done his job if he gets booed...

Violinist Ray Chen talks to Suzy Klein ahead of his concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall this week. Ray talks about his early competition wins, his love of fashion, and why performing is not just about the music but also the audience.

Russian soprano Julia Lezhneva on moving from Moscow to Cardiff, choosing the right teacher and performing in Vivaldi's L'Oracolo in Messenia with Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante at the Barbican in London

Mezzo soprano Anne Sofie von Otter talks to Sean Rafferty about performing with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and her recent Grammy win for her album Douce France.

Sean Rafferty gets a sneak preview of the National Portrait Gallery's new exhibition ‘Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends’, which focuses on John Singer Sargent’s collection of portraits of his closest contemporaries including artists, writers, actors and musicians. Joining Sean round the gallery is the exhibition's curator (and great nephew to Sargent) Richard Ormond.

Principal clarinettist with the Berlin Philharmonic, Andreas Ottensamer discusses connections between sport and music, his new Brahms recording and the Berlin Phil's London residency.

Wagnerian bass-baritone Iain Paterson on the challenge of singing Hans Sachs in Wagner's Die Meistersinger at ENO, the importance of art and getting into music by accident after a sports injury