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The Listening Service — 251 episodes · page 1 of 3
What's the point of Listening?
Needle Drop: the power of classical music in film
Impassioned argument: Elizabeth Maconchy's string quartets
Songs of the Moon
'Pathétique'
Turangalila!
Jumping Fleas: the rise and rise of the Ukulele
Resolutions
New York, New York!
The Trombone Section
The Old Testament of Music
In it to win it
Hitting the High Notes
Unripe Cherries: Brahms's Symphony No 4
The Ethereal
Strange Tuning
Gloria!
What's the Point of Symphonies?
Musical Time Travel: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Vaughan Williams
What's on the programme?
Secret Music: Byrd's Masses
All American Ives?
Surround Sound: Tallis's Spem in alium
Artificial intelligence and music
Ravel's Bolero: A Piece without Music?
All the King's Music
Once upon a time... The Fairy-tale Operas of Judith Weir
Wild Isles: Wild Music
Stravinsky, the puppet master: Petrushka
Here Comes the Bride
Bluebeard's Castle: Enter at Your Peril
Collage, writ large: Berio's Sinfonia
Mystery, rumour and deception: Mozart's Requiem
Repetition
Symphonic Steampunk: Saint-Saëns's Organ Symphony
On the March: Pomp, Circumstance and Dam Busters
David Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion
Also Sprach Zarathustra: Strauss’s New Dawn
Britten's Choral Christmas
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune: Half Man, Half Myth, All Debussy
Kurt Weill and The Threepenny Opera
Steve Reich's Different Trains: Minimalism and Memory
The Hebrides Overture: Mendelssohn's melodious cave
Musical Ecstasy
Stormy Weather
The Enchantment of Chant
Abracadabra
TV Themes
The Music of Sound
What's the point of cadenzas?
Royal Music
Can music be funny?
The Musical Recycling Plant
More Than the Score
What's in a Name?
Song Cycles and Concept Albums
Finishing the Hat
John Williams - the Force of Music!
Classical Crossover
Recorders
Dancing about Architecture
Playing at sight and playing from memory
Making Overtures
Handel's Messiah: Hallelujah!
How to listen to...Erik Satie
The Borrowers
Klezmer
The timeless power of contemporary choral music
Eat to the Beat
Out of Tune
How to listen to... Arvo Pärt
Fiddles and Fiddle Tunes
Themes and Variations
Money Makes the Music Go Round
How to listen to... Gilbert and Sullivan
Playing Second Fiddle (and Horn and Trumpet...)
Brass Bands
Is Music Good for You?
Tunes for 'Toons
Leoš Janáček: music is a being come alive
Perfect Harmony
The Viola - Music's Secret Fire
The Feasibility of Studies
Musical Signatures
Dream Teams
The Inbetweeners
What if...? Tom's Marvellous Musical Multiverse
Swing, Rubato and Bounce
Becoming Beethoven's Fifth
Rewilding Sibelius
How to Sing Classical - Vibrato!
Tricky timing
It Takes Two
What makes the organ so mighty?
Musical Highs
Is Classical music fashionable?
HIPP to Be Square
Is it canon?
The Goldberg Variations
Going Slow