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Discovering Music: Listening Library

Discovering Music is Broadcast on Radio 3 on Sundays at 17:00-18:30

Discovering Music explores pieces of music in detail, providing a unique insight into the inner workings of a millennium of musical history.

Many past editions of Discovering Music are available to listen to online from the index below.

Many of the programmes are truncated as we do not have the rights to offer full online performances of copyright music beyond 7 days.

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A-Z by Composer

  1. #
  2. a
  3. b
  4. c
  5. d
  6. e
  7. f
  8. g
  9. h
  10. i
  11. j
  12. k
  13. l
  14. m
  15. n
  16. o
  17. p
  18. q
  19. r
  20. s
  21. t
  22. u
  23. v
  24. w
  25. x
  26. y
  27. z

a

  1. John Adams - Chamber Symphony
  2. John Adams - The Wound Dresser

b

  1. Bach - Chaconne from Partita No.2 in D minor
  2. Bach - Goldberg Variations
  3. Bach - Inventions
  4. Bach - Jesu, meine Freude
  5. Bach - Passacaglia and Fugue in C
  6. Barber - Piano Concerto
  7. Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra
  8. Bartok - Divertimento
  9. Bartok - Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta
  10. Bartok - Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta 2006
  11. Bartok - Piano Concerto No.3
  12. Bartok - String Quartet No.2
  13. Beethoven - Archduke Trio
  14. Beethoven - Missa Solemnis
  15. Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
  16. Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.2
  17. Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.3
  18. Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 4
  19. Beethoven - Piano and Cello Sonata in C major, Op 102 No 1
  20. Beethoven - Six Bagatelles Opus 126
  21. Beethoven - Six Bagatelles Opus 126  2007
  22. Beethoven - Symphony no.2 in D
  23. Beethoven - Symphony no.5
  24. Beethoven - Symphony no.6
  25. Beethoven - Symphony no.7
  26. Beethoven - Symphony no.7 2007
  27. Beethoven - Symphony no.9
  28. Beethoven - the 'Emperor' Concerto
  29. Beethoven - The Leonora Overtures
  30. Beethoven - Violin Concerto
  31. Benjamin - Dance Figures and Sudden Time
  32. Berg - Violin Concerto
  33. Berlioz - Harold in Italy
  34. Berlioz - Les Nuits d'Ete
  35. Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
  36. Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique 2006
  37. Bernstein - Chichester Psalms
  38. Bernstein - Fancy Free
  39. Bernstein - Serenade after Plato's Symposium
  40. Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from 'West Side Story'
  41. Brahms - Academic Festival Overture
  42. Brahms - Piano Concerto no.1
  43. Brahms - Piano Concerto no.2
  44. Brahms - Piano pieces, Op 118
  45. Brahms - Symphony No.1
  46. Brahms - Symphony no.3
  47. Brahms - Variations on a theme of Haydn (The St Anthony Chorale)
  48. Brahms - Variations on a theme of Haydn (The St Anthony Chorale) 2006
  49. Brahms - Violin Concerto
  50. Britten - Four Sea Interludes
  51. Britten - Four Sea Interludes 2007
  52. Britten - Frank Bridge Variations
  53. Britten - Frank Bridge Variations 2007
  54. Britten - Les Illuminations
  55. Britten - Nocturne
  56. Britten - Serenade for tenor, horn and strings
  57. Britten - Sinfonia da Requiem
  58. Bruckner- Motets
  59. Bruckner - Symphony no.4
  60. Bruckner - Symphony no.7
  61. Bruckner - Symphony no.9

c

  1. Chen Yi - Chinese Myths Cantata
  2. Chopin - Ballades
  3. Chopin - Four Scherzi
  4. Chopin - Piano Preludes Opus 28
  5. Chopin - Piano Concerto no. 1
  6. Copland - Appalachian Spring
  7. Copland - Clarinet Concerto

d

  1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
  2. Debussy - La Mer
  3. Jonathan Dove - Figures in the Garden
  4. John Dowland - Lachrymae
  5. Dutilleux - Symphony no. 2 'Le Double'
  6. Dvorak - Cello Concerto
  7. Dvorak - The Golden Spinning Wheel
  8. Dvorak's Overtures
  9. Dvorak - Symphony no.8
  10. Dvorak - Symphony no.9
  11. Dvorak - Symphony no. 9 'From the New World' 2007
  12. Dvorak - Violin Concerto

e

  1. Elgar - Cello Concerto
  2. Elgar - Cello Concerto 2005
  3. Elgar - Enigma Variations
  4. Elgar/Walker - Piano Concerto
  5. Elgar - Sea Pictures

f

  1. Falla - El Amor Brujo
  2. Faure - La Bonne Chanson

g

  1. Gershwin - Piano Concerto
  2. Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
  3. Gesualdo - Madrigals
  4. Grieg - Piano Concerto

h

  1. Handel - Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne
  2. Haydn - Opus 33 Quartets
  3. Haydn - Symphony no. 60 in C (Il Distratto)
  4. Haydn - Symphony no. 98
  5. Haydn - Symphony no.100
  6. Haydn - Symphony no. 100 'The Military'  2006
  7. Haydn - Trumpet Concerto
  8. Hindemith - Symphonic Variations of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
  9. Holst - Planets Suite

i

  1. Ives - Three Places in New England

j

k

  1. Kodaly - Hary Janos

l

  1. Ligeti - Violin Concerto

m

  1. Macmillan - The Berserking
  2. MacMillan - The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
  3. MacMillan - Sinfonietta
  4. Mahler - Kindertotenlieder
  5. Mahler - Songs of a Wayfarer
  6. Mahler - Symphony no.1
  7. Mahler - Symphony no.4
  8. Martinu - Nonet
  9. Mendelssohn - Italian Symphony
  10. Mendelssohn - Octet
  11. Mendelssohn - Overtures
  12. Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto no. 2
  13. Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto
  14. Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time
  15. Monteverdi -Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
  16. Monteverdi - The Madrigals
  17. Monteverdi - L'Orfeo
  18. Mozart - Clarinet Concerto
  19. Mozart - Clarinet Concerto 2007
  20. Mozart - Clarinet Quintet
  21. Mozart- 'Dissonance'Quartet K.465
  22. Mozart - Piano Concerto no.20
  23. Mozart - Piano Concerto no.21
  24. Mozart - Piano Concerto K491
  25. Mozart - Piano Concerto No.25
  26. Mozart - Piano Concerto no.27
  27. Mozart - Magic Flute
  28. Mozart - Serenade in C min K388
  29. Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante, K364
  30. Mozart - String Quintet in G min K516
  31. Mozart - Symphony No 29
  32. Mozart - Symphony 39
  33. Mozart - Symphony 40
  34. Mozart - Symphony no.40 K550
  35. Mozart - Symphony no.41 'Jupiter'
  36. Mozart - The Improviser

n

  1. Nielsen - Concerto for Clarinet
  2. Nielsen - Concerto for Flute
  3. Nielsen - Symphony no.2
  4. Nielsen - Symphony no.4

o

p

  1. Arvo Pärt
  2. Poulenc - Mass in G
  3. Poulenc - Organ Concerto
  4. Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kije
  5. Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No.3
  6. Prokofiev - Symphony no.1 'Classical'
  7. Prokofiev - Symphony no.1 'Classical' (2007)
  8. Prokofiev - Symphony no.5
  9. Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No.1
  10. Puccini - La Boheme

q

r

  1. Rachmaninov - Isle of the Dead
  2. Rachmaninov - 2nd Piano Sonata
  3. Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No.3
  4. Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
  5. Rachmaninov - Symphony No.2
  6. Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit
  7. Ravel - Ma Mere L'Oye
  8. Ravel - Piano Concerto
  9. Respighi - Trittico Botticelliano
  10. Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade

s

  1. Schnittke - Concerto for Piano and Strings
  2. Schoenberg - 1st Chamber Symphony
  3. Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire
  4. Schoenberg -String Quartet No 2
  5. Schoenberg - Transfigured Night
  6. Schubert - String Quartet 'Death and the Maiden'
  7. Schubert - Octet
  8. Schubert - Piano Sonata D894
  9. Schubert - Piano Sonata D960
  10. Schubert - Piano Trio in B flat D898
  11. Schubert - Piano Trio in E flat D929
  12. Schubert - Quintet in C
  13. Schubert - Symphony No 5
  14. Schubert - Symphony No 5 (2006)
  15. Schubert - Trout Quintet
  16. Schubert - Trout Quintet 2007
  17. Schubert - 'Unfinished' Symphony
  18. Schubert - Wanderer Fantasy
  19. Schumann - Fantasy for Piano
  20. Schumann - Kinderszenen
  21. Schumann - Piano Concerto
  22. Schumann - Piano Quintet
  23. Schumann - Symphony No 2
  24. Schumann - Symphony No.3 'Rhenish'
  25. Schumann - Symphony in D min (1841)
  26. Shostakovich - Cello Concerto No.1
  27. Shostakovich - Cello Concerto No.1 2006
  28. Shostakovich - String Quartet no.8
  29. Shostakovich - String Quartet no.8  2007
  30. Shostakovich - Symphony no.5
  31. Shostakovich - Symphony no.10
  32. Shulamit Ran - Concerto for violin and orchestra
  33. Sibelius - 'The Oceanides' and 'Pohjola's Daughter'
  34. Sibelius - 'Swan of Tuonela' and 'Night Ride and Sunrise'
  35. Sibelius - Symphony No. 2
  36. Sibelius - Symphony No.4
  37. Sibelius - Symphony No.7
  38. Sibelius - Symphony No.7  2006
  39. Sibelius - Tapiola
  40. Sibelius - Tapiola  2006
  41. Spohr - Nonet
  42. Strauss - Don Juan
  43. Strauss - Don Quixote
  44. Strauss - Four Last Songs
  45. Strauss - Metamorphosen
  46. Stravinsky - The Firebird Suite
  47. Stravinsky - Pulcinella
  48. Stravinsky - Symphony in 3 Movements
  49. Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring - Part 1
  50. Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring - Part 2

t

  1. Tallis - 40 Part Motets
  2. Tavener - The Protecting Veil
  3. Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet
  4. Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty
  5. Tchaikovsky - Souvenir de Florence
  6. Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.4
  7. Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 'Pathetique'
  8. Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto
  9. Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto 2007
  10. Tippett - Concerto for Double String Orchestra
  11. Tippett - Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli

u

v

  1. Vaughan Williams - Flos Campi
  2. Vaughan Williams - 5th Symphony
  3. Vaughan Williams - Tallis Fantasia
  4. Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending

w

  1. Wagner - Prelude and Liebstod
  2. Wagner - settings of poems by Mathilde Wesendonck
  3. Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
  4. Walton - Cello Concerto
  5. Walton - Viola Concerto
  6. Warlock - Serenade for Strings
  7. Listening to Webern
  8. Kurt Weill - Violin Concerto

x

y

z

By Theme

  1. The Classical Symphony
  2. Shall We Dance?
  3. Electronic Music
  4. Fairy Tales
  5. Harmony
  6. And all that Jazz - Part 1
  7. And all that Jazz - Part 2
  8. Melody
  9. Ragas
  10. Rhythm
  11. Serenades and Symphonies
  12. Serenades - Birthday Tributes
  13. Serenades - Part 1
  14. Serenades - Part 2
  15. Songs by Schubert, Britten, Finzi and Wolf
  16. Tango
  17. Tone Colour
  18. The Trumpet Concerto
  19. What is Classical Music?
  20. Words and Music

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