How do musical masterpieces travel through time? Philosophy student Ian Heckman speaks to Iain Fenlon, Emeritus Professor of historical musicology at the University of Cambridge; Tanya Tomkins (cello) and Eric Zivian (forte piano). Learn how performers make music from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries come to life for audiences today. How is possible for operas like Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo and L’Arianna, now more than 400 years old, still to move us? Hear, too, why some musicians choose to perform such pieces on period instruments. Musical interludes include excerpts from the operas and Tomkins’ and Zivian’s performance of Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 1, with violinist Monica Huggett.