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Discovering Music

Discovering Music explores pieces of music in detail.

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    Ravel's La valse

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    Stephen Johnson on the dark underbelly of Ravel's ode to the Viennese waltz, La valse.

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    1. Roussel's Bacchus et Ariane

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      Stephen Johnson explores the ballet Bacchus et Ariane by French composer Albert Roussel.

    2. Elgar's Symphony No 1

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      Stephen Johnson explores Elgar's Symphony No 1, which was ten years in the making.

    3. Britten: Saint Nicolas

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      Stephen Johnson explores Britten's work for children's chorus, his cantata Saint Nicolas.

    4. Beethoven's Emperor Concerto

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      Stephen Johnson on the history and musical mechanics of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 5.

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Online Video Library

The latest videos in the Discovering Music video library explore Beethoven's Eroica Symphony.

The library also includes videos of works by Arnold, Copland, Mussorgsky and Purcell.

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Online Video Glossary

Find out what musical terms mean, and view online videos of how they sound in music.

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Mozart Symphony No 36 'Linz'

Mozart famously wrote his Linz Symphony in four days. To open up the piece and to understand Mozart's compositional style, players from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and pupils from Glasgow schools were brought together to create a new mini-symphony based on Mozart's techniques. It was written in the same 4 days, but in our contemporary sound world.

Read more, listen to interviews and hear the great piece on the Disco Linz blog.

Discovering Music will broadcast an exploration of Mozart's Linz Symphony in 2011.

Disco Linz Blog

Dixit Dominus Film

Watch a film of the programme, introduced by Robert Hollingworth with the BBC Singers and St James's Baroque conducted by James O'Donnell

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Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2

Stephen Johnson analyses the music and the background to the music of Brahms' 2nd Piano Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Jonathan Schiffman with piano soloist Martin Roscoe

Watch the analysis of Brahms Piano concerto no. 2

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Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony

Stephen Johnson explores the private codes hidden in Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.

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