The Listening Service
By BBC Radio 3
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Rethink music with The Listening Service. Tom Service presents a journey of imagination and insight, exploring how music works
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What's the point of Listening?
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Needle Drop: the power of classical music in film
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Impassioned argument: Elizabeth Maconchy's string quartets
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Songs of the Moon
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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'Pathétique'
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Turangalila!
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Jumping Fleas: the rise and rise of the Ukulele
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Resolutions
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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New York, New York!
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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The Trombone Section
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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The Old Testament of Music
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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In it to win it
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Hitting the High Notes
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Unripe Cherries: Brahms's Symphony No 4
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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The Ethereal
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Strange Tuning
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Gloria!
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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What's the Point of Symphonies?
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Musical Time Travel: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Vaughan Williams
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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What's on the programme?
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Secret Music: Byrd's Masses
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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All American Ives?
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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Surround Sound: Tallis's Spem in alium
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Artificial intelligence and music
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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Ravel's Bolero: A Piece without Music?
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May 28, 2023 |
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All the King's Music
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May 07, 2023 |
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Once upon a time... The Fairy-tale Operas of Judith Weir
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Wild Isles: Wild Music
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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Stravinsky, the puppet master: Petrushka
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Here Comes the Bride
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Bluebeard's Castle: Enter at Your Peril
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Collage, writ large: Berio's Sinfonia
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Mystery, rumour and deception: Mozart's Requiem
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Repetition
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Symphonic Steampunk: Saint-Saëns's Organ Symphony
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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On the March: Pomp, Circumstance and Dam Busters
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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David Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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Also Sprach Zarathustra: Strauss’s New Dawn
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Britten's Choral Christmas
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune: Half Man, Half Myth, All Debussy
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Kurt Weill and The Threepenny Opera
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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Steve Reich's Different Trains: Minimalism and Memory
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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The Hebrides Overture: Mendelssohn's melodious cave
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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Musical Ecstasy
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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Stormy Weather
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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The Enchantment of Chant
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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Abracadabra
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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TV Themes
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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The Music of Sound
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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What's the point of cadenzas?
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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Royal Music
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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Can music be funny?
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May 22, 2022 |
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The Musical Recycling Plant
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May 08, 2022 |
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More Than the Score
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May 03, 2022 |
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What's in a Name?
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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Song Cycles and Concept Albums
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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Finishing the Hat
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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John Williams - the Force of Music!
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Classical Crossover
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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Recorders
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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Dancing about Architecture
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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Playing at sight and playing from memory
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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Making Overtures
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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Handel's Messiah: Hallelujah!
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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How to listen to...Erik Satie
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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The Borrowers
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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Klezmer
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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The timeless power of contemporary choral music
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Eat to the Beat
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Out of Tune
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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How to listen to... Arvo Pärt
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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Fiddles and Fiddle Tunes
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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Themes and Variations
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Jul 18, 2021 |
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Money Makes the Music Go Round
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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How to listen to... Gilbert and Sullivan
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Jun 13, 2021 |
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Playing Second Fiddle (and Horn and Trumpet...)
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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Brass Bands
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May 16, 2021 |
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Is Music Good for You?
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May 09, 2021 |
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Tunes for 'Toons
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May 02, 2021 |
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Leoš Janáček: music is a being come alive
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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Perfect Harmony
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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The Viola - Music's Secret Fire
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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The Feasibility of Studies
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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Musical Signatures
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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Dream Teams
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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The Inbetweeners
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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What if...? Tom's Marvellous Musical Multiverse
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Dec 27, 2020 |
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Swing, Rubato and Bounce
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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Becoming Beethoven's Fifth
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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Rewilding Sibelius
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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How to Sing Classical - Vibrato!
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Tricky timing
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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It Takes Two
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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What makes the organ so mighty?
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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Musical Highs
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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Is Classical music fashionable?
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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HIPP to Be Square
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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Is it canon?
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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The Goldberg Variations
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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Going Slow
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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Music and breathing
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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The Musical Universe of Maurice Ravel
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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Wagner’s Ring Cycle: The Ultimate Box Set Binge
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May 31, 2020 |
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English Music
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May 24, 2020 |
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Talking in music
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May 03, 2020 |
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Lisztomania
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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Close Harmony
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Mar 29, 2020 |
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The music of Kaija Saariaho
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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Sad songs say so much
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Feb 09, 2020 |
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The String Quartet
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Feb 02, 2020 |
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Beethoven Unleashed: Getting to grips with Beethoven
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Jan 19, 2020 |
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Texture
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Jan 12, 2020 |
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How to love new music
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Jan 05, 2020 |
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Parapapampam
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Dec 22, 2019 |
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Why backing vocals matter
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Dec 08, 2019 |
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The Great Highland Bagpipe
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Nov 17, 2019 |
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How to Compose Music
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Nov 10, 2019 |
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The Real Red Priest
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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Turn up the Volume, Dial up the Drama
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Oct 20, 2019 |
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The Simple Truth
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Oct 13, 2019 |
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Prog Rock - apotheosis or nadir?
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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Al-Andalus: What makes music sound Spanish?
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Sep 29, 2019 |
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The Music of the Night
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Sep 22, 2019 |
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All the Tunes
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Sep 15, 2019 |
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Olivier Messiaen and the Interstellar Call!
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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Is complicated music better than simple music?
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Jul 07, 2019 |
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Why do babies love music?
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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Better than background music?
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Jun 16, 2019 |
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Countertenors - classical rock gods!
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Jun 09, 2019 |
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What's the point of practice?
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May 26, 2019 |
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Sound of the Underground
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May 19, 2019 |
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What Is Sound Art? And Why?
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May 05, 2019 |
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Ranked Amateurs
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Apr 28, 2019 |
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Why are classical audiences so quiet?
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Apr 21, 2019 |
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The Power of One
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Apr 07, 2019 |
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Anger in Music
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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Bruckner and the Symphonic Boa Constrictors
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Mar 24, 2019 |
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The Double Bass
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Can music be gendered?
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Mar 10, 2019 |
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Style Counsel
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Mar 03, 2019 |
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The Key to Keys
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Feb 10, 2019 |
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Schubert - The Dark Side
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Feb 03, 2019 |
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Riffs, loops and ostinati - the art of repeating yourself!
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Jan 26, 2019 |
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Classical Icons
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Jan 20, 2019 |
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What Makes a Song?
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Jan 06, 2019 |
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The Nutcracker - Strange Enchantments
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Dec 30, 2018 |
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The bells, the bells...
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Dec 23, 2018 |
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Concertos: All for one and one for all?
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Dec 09, 2018 |
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Extreme Classical!
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Dec 02, 2018 |
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The Power of Three
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Nov 25, 2018 |
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Rossini - Master Chef and Maestro
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Nov 18, 2018 |
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What counts as 'classical music'?
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Nov 11, 2018 |
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What's the Point of the Conductor?
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Nov 04, 2018 |
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Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
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Oct 28, 2018 |
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The Magical Forest
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Oct 21, 2018 |
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The Cowpat Controversy
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Oct 14, 2018 |
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Speed
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Oct 07, 2018 |
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Technical Mastery
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Sep 30, 2018 |
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In space no-one can hear you sing...
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Sep 23, 2018 |
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Maxing out on Minimalism
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Sep 16, 2018 |
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Searching for Paradise - 2018 Proms Special
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Sep 02, 2018 |
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Virtuosity - 2018 Proms Special
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Aug 26, 2018 |
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Endings - 2018 Proms Special
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Aug 19, 2018 |
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Colour and Music - 2018 Proms Special
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Aug 12, 2018 |
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Britten's Sea Interludes - 2018 Proms Special
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Aug 05, 2018 |
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Folk Music - 2018 Proms Special
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Jul 29, 2018 |
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Mahler's 8th Symphony - 2018 Proms Special
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Jul 23, 2018 |
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Devilish Musical Pacts
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Jul 23, 2018 |
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Pioneers of Sound - Proms 2018 Special
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Jul 15, 2018 |
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Orchestral Manoeuvres
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Jul 15, 2018 |
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Beginnings - Proms 2018 Special
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Jul 12, 2018 |
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The Fifth
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Jul 01, 2018 |
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Truck Driver Modulation
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Jun 24, 2018 |
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Igor Stravinsky: Understood Best by Children and Animals
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Jun 17, 2018 |
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The Listening Service recorded live at Hay Festival
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Jun 03, 2018 |
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Syncopation Syncopation Syncopation
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May 20, 2018 |
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What does ancient history really sound like?
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May 14, 2018 |
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The Sea
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May 06, 2018 |
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How does video game music work?
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Apr 29, 2018 |
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Is Music a Universal Language?
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Apr 22, 2018 |
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Drums
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Apr 08, 2018 |
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Orientalism and the Music of Elsewhere
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Apr 01, 2018 |
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Searching for Paradise
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Mar 19, 2018 |
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The Listening Service at Free Thinking
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Mar 12, 2018 |
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The French Horn Unwound
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Mar 04, 2018 |
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Debussy the Impressionist?
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Feb 18, 2018 |
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Sonata Form - or There and Back Again
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Feb 11, 2018 |
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I guess that's why they call it the Blues
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Feb 04, 2018 |
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From the New World?
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Jan 21, 2018 |
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Bartok
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Jan 14, 2018 |
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The Joy of Bach
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Dec 12, 2017 |
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Mahler
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Dec 10, 2017 |
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Bad Music
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Dec 03, 2017 |
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Pranked!
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Nov 19, 2017 |
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The Synthesizer. Hannah Peel, Peter Zinovieff
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Nov 12, 2017 |
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Shostakovich's Symphony No 15
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Nov 05, 2017 |
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Can Music Scare Us?
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Oct 29, 2017 |
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Earworms
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Oct 16, 2017 |
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Silence!
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Oct 08, 2017 |
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Why is opera so ridiculous?
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Oct 01, 2017 |
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Music for Mourning
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Sep 24, 2017 |
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Musical Protests
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Sep 20, 2017 |
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Codes, Ciphers, Enigmas
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Sep 10, 2017 |
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The Proms Podcast Episode II - A New Episode
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Aug 01, 2017 |
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Extreme Voices
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Jul 09, 2017 |
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Drones
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Jul 02, 2017 |
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I Got Rhythm
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Jun 25, 2017 |
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Hay Festival 2017
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Jun 06, 2017 |
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Endings
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May 07, 2017 |
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Breaking Free: Martin Luther's Revolution
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Apr 30, 2017 |
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Who Wrote the First Folk Song?
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Apr 24, 2017 |
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Brahms - Behind the Beard
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Apr 24, 2017 |
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Brevity
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Mar 26, 2017 |
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Deep Listening: Pauline Oliveros
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Mar 25, 2017 |
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Music - It's About Time
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Mar 20, 2017 |
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What's All that Noise?
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Mar 12, 2017 |
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The Power of Love Songs
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Feb 12, 2017 |
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What you see is what you hear?
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Feb 05, 2017 |
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Virtuosity
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Jan 22, 2017 |
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Whatever Happened to the Waltz?
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Jan 15, 2017 |
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Breaking Free: Tom Service on the Second Viennese School
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Jan 01, 2017 |
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The Listening Service Extra 12 of 12 - Schoenberg’s Compositional Vision
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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The Listening Service Extra 11 of 12 - Twelve-tone music and its reception
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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The Listening Service Extra 10 of 12 - Do the correct notes matter?
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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The Listening Service Extra 9 of 12 - Tennis Partners
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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The Listening Service Extra 8 of 12 - Alban Berg
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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The Listening Service Extra 7 of 12 - Expressive Melodies
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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The Listening Service Extra 6 of 12 - Twelve Tones
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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The Listening Service Extra 5 of 12 - Boiling Water
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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The Listening Service Extra 4 of 12 - Schoenberg’s IDEA
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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The Listening Service Extra 3 of 12 - Dissonance
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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The Listening Service Extra 2 of 12 - Heir to the German Mainstream
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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The Listening Service Extra 1 of 12 - Who am I?
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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Background Music
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Dec 11, 2016 |
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The Semitone
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Dec 04, 2016 |
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What is it about Mozart?
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Nov 20, 2016 |
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Improvisation
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Nov 13, 2016 |
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Cover Versions
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Nov 06, 2016 |
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Colour and music
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Oct 16, 2016 |
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Tristan und Isolde
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Oct 03, 2016 |
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Sound Frontiers: Listening to Recordings
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Sep 26, 2016 |
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Why is music addicted to bass?
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Sep 18, 2016 |
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Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto
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Sep 11, 2016 |
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Transcendence
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Jul 18, 2016 |
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Chasing a Fugue
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Jul 10, 2016 |
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Why does music move us?
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Jul 03, 2016 |
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Beethoven - Hero or Villain?
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Jun 26, 2016 |
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Is Birdsong Music?
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Jun 19, 2016 |
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How do you describe a teaspoon in music?
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Jun 12, 2016 |
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How Do You Make a National Anthem?
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Jun 05, 2016 |
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Beginnings
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May 01, 2016 |