BBC Music February 2021

This month, we meet the Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who shows us around her 2000-strong instrument collection, introducing us to the marimba, snare drum, gamelan and armonica that have shaped her career. Sophy Roberts, author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia, takes us on her journey across Russia in search of the country’s most fascinating pianos, while Paul Riley takes us back in time to the Palace of Versailles’s opera house, built in the dying years of the French monarchy.