Marin Alsop is the first female principal conductor of an orchestra in Britain - the Bournemouth Symphony - had has just won the classical world's equivalent of the Oscars. Readers of Gramophone magazine have voted her Artist of the Year.
A native New Yorker, she's just recorded a CD of music by her old tutor Leonard Bernstein including dance themes from On The Town and joins Martha to talk about her love of music. Bernstein's Chichester Psalms by the Bouremouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop is available on the Naxos label, Cat. No. 8559177
