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Transcendence
Tom Service considers musical transcendence.
Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto
Tom Service explores Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto.
Why is music addicted to bass?
Tom Service explores the intrinsic importance to humans of bass in music.
Sound Frontiers: Listening to Recordings
As part of Radio 3 Live at Southbank Centre, Tom Service explores recorded sound.
Tristan und Isolde
Tom Service on the supercharged emotional impact of Wagner's epic opera Tristan und Isolde
Colour and music
Tom Service explores the link between music and colour. Can music be colourful?
Schubert - The Dark Side
Tom Service delves into the dark side of Franz Schubert.
Cover Versions
Tom Service explores cover versions 鈥 from Baroque to pop.
Improvisation
Tom Service considers the art of musical improvisation with David Toop and Joelle Leandre.
The Semitone
Tom Service on what can be done with the semitone, the smallest interval in western music.
Background Music
Tom Service considers what is background music and how it functions in our lives.
The bells, the bells...
The mystery, magic and music associated with bells.
The Listening Service Extra 1 of 12 - Who am I?
Schoenberg鈥檚 objection to being dubbed a 鈥渇amous theoretician and controversial musician鈥
The Listening Service Extra 2 of 12 - Heir to the German Mainstream
Tom looks at why Schoenberg felt a strong lineage from Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Bach
The Listening Service Extra 3 of 12 - Dissonance
Tom explores what Schoenberg meant by the dissonance and how he broke free from tonality.
The Listening Service Extra 4 of 12 - Schoenberg鈥檚 IDEA
Schoenberg鈥檚 conception of what the 鈥渋dea鈥 of a piece of music really was...
The Listening Service Extra 5 of 12 - Boiling Water
Schoenberg鈥檚 experience in the new atonal world...
The Listening Service Extra 6 of 12 - Twelve Tones
Schoenberg鈥檚 distillation and defence of his theory of composition with 12 tones...
The Listening Service Extra 7 of 12 - Expressive Melodies
Tom looks at Schoenberg鈥檚 demonstration of how to harmonize a melody to maximum effect...
The Listening Service Extra 8 of 12 - Alban Berg
We listen to Schoenberg鈥檚 praise of his pupil, Alban Berg...
The Listening Service Extra 9 of 12 - Tennis Partners
Tom looks at Schoenberg鈥檚 love of Gershwin, who was also his tennis partner in Hollywood.
The Listening Service Extra 10 of 12 - Do the correct notes matter?
Tom looks at Schoenberg鈥檚 plea to musicians to play the correct notes in his String Trio.
The Listening Service Extra 11 of 12 - Twelve-tone music and its reception
We hear Schoenberg on the reception of his music in America, Europe.
The Listening Service Extra 12 of 12 - Schoenberg鈥檚 Compositional Vision
Tom explores how Schoenberg hears the music that he is going to write.
Breaking Free: Tom Service on the Second Viennese School
Tom Service considers how to listen to the Second Viennese School.
Whatever Happened to the Waltz?
Tom Service explores the waltz and why we love to dance to music in triple metre.
Virtuosity
Tom Service explores the meaning of musical virtuosity.
What Makes a Song?
Tom Service explores what makes a good song work.
What you see is what you hear?
Tom Service asks if the pictures we see of composers influence the way we hear their music
In space no-one can hear you sing...
Tom Service explores why space-inspired music sounds the way it does.
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
Tom Service explores the finale from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.