Conductors Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Vasily Petrenko on the power of live performance

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Tom Service with guests, stories and the perfect classical soundtrack for the weekend! Yannick Nézet-Séguin talks to Tom about the power of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde as he conducts a new production at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He explains what it means to him personally to be performing this work at the Met and how discovering this opera as a youngster made him realise that Wagner was the composer he wanted to conduct most in opera. We continue our focus on Creators with the composer, vocalist and artistic director Laura Bowler, who talks to Tom about grief and music, including her recent piece "The White Book", which explores loss, memory and survival, written after the death of her mother and inspired by the poetry of Korean writer Han Kang. Tom meets conductor Vasily Petrenko, who discusses why we need to embrace human music not AI, how the concert experience can change lives and why we all need some Mahler right now. To listen on most smart speakers, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Saturday Morning”.