Music Matters: Musical Minds

BBC Radio 3

London, UK

Psychotherapist and broadcaster Nemone Metaxas delves into our psychological relationship with music and talks to some of classical music’s brightest stars to untangle why music can be such a powerful presence in our lives.

This week, Nemone is joined by conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya who thinks deeply about the psychology of conducting and how she relates to the musicians of the orchestra. Lidiya talks about how fleeing Russia at the age of 9 has shaped her relationship to music, the distinctive power music has to communicate emotion, setting up the Refugee Orchestra Project and why we need music and empathy more than ever. Featuring music by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Gorecki, Zoltan Almashi, Rachmaninov and Ricky Ian Gordon.