Classical music
The Essay. Brick, Stone, Steel, Glass, Wigmore Hall. Audio, 15 minutes
Pianist Stephen Hough on Wigmore Hall and how its 'shoebox' design catches the ear.
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Thinking Allowed. Working-class actors, Class and classical music. Audio, 28 minutes
Working-class actors, Class and classical music.
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The Listening Service. The Joy of Bach. Audio, 29 minutes
Tom Service celebrates The Joy of Bach.
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- Posted23 December 2017
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- Posted22 December 2017
In the Studio. Elijah Moshinsky: Rebellious director of opera. Audio, 27 minutes
Masterminding Verdi’s Macbeth feels like a ‘forensic examination of evil’
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- Posted8 December 2017
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- Posted6 December 2017
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- Posted7 December 2017
The Listening Service. Mahler. Audio, 29 minutes
Tom Service discovers how Mahler was the first 'non-classical' classical composer.
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The Listening Service. Pranked! Audio, 29 minutes
Tom Service on the motivation and aesthetic value of musical hoaxes.
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- Posted10 November 2017
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- Posted9 November 2017
The Essay. Ten Artists that Shook the World, 3 Nijinsky. Audio, 15 minutes
Former ballerina Deborah Bull on Nijinsky and the impact of his ballet The Rite of Spring.
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The Listening Service. Shostakovich's Symphony No 15. Audio, 29 minutes
Tom Service unlocks the mysteries of Shostakovich's baffling Symphony No 15.
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Sunday Feature. Louisa Egbunike and Sean Williams. Audio, 45 minutes
Two New Generation Thinkers present features on Afrofuturism and German Lieder.
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Sunday Feature. A Flapper's Guide to the Opera. Audio, 45 minutes
Alexandra Wilson takes a flapper's journey back to 1920s' operatic London.
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- Posted21 October 2017
The Essay. Stories That Sing, Garth Greenwell. Audio, 14 minutes
The journey of an awkward teenager in Kentucky towards opera and literature.
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The Essay. Stories That Sing, Rachel Cooke. Audio, 14 minutes
Rachel Cooke examines the trappings that surround opera-going.
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- Posted18 October 2017
The Essay. Stories That Sing, David Threlfall. Audio, 14 minutes
Actor David Threlfall ponders his ambivalent responses to opera.
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The Essay. Stories That Sing, Patricia Duncker: How I Fell in Love with Opera. Audio, 14 minutes
Patricia Duncker on the dangerous and seductive ways opera can overwhelm the senses.
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The Essay. Stories That Sing, Julian Barnes: Opera - Coming to it Late. Audio, 14 minutes
Opera used to baffle Julian Barnes, then something happened and everything changed.
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