Music Matters: ENO's Julius Caesar, Contemporary Piano, Natrual History of the Piano

Summary: As part of the BBC Piano Season Tom Service talks to pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Noriko Kawai and Rolf Hind about the challenges of performing contemporary piano music and what the future may hold for the piano repertoire and author Stuart Isacoff tells Tom why the piano is so important to musicians from Mozart to modern jazz. Tom also talks to the director Michael Keegan-Dolan and conductor Christian Curnyn about the new English National Opera production of Handel's Julius Caesar which is a collaboration between ENO and dance company Fabulous Beast. Celebrated as a choreographer and the Artistic Director of Fabulous Beast, Keegan-Dolan's productions are known for being ground-breaking and cutting edge, and the reviewers will be on hand to tell Tom how well they think Keegan-Dolan's vision transfers to Handel and the stage of the Coliseum.