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Mahler

Tom Service discovers how Mahler was the first 'non-classical' classical composer.

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The Listening Service
Mahler
Tom Service discovers how Mahler was the first 'non-classical' classical composer.
28 mins
The Listening Service
Style Counsel
Tom Service dispenses music history style counsel - how to tell what you're listening to.
28 mins
The Listening Service
Bartok
Tom Service explores the unique music of Bela Bartok, including his piano music.
28 mins
The Listening Service
From the New World?
Tom Service examines Dvorak's New World Symphony.
29 mins
The Listening Service
I guess that's why they call it the Blues
Tom Service discovers 'the Blues' from its earliest origins to its widest influence.
28 mins
The Listening Service
Sonata Form - or There and Back Again
In this edition of The Listening Service Tom Service tells stories in sonata form.
28 mins
The Listening Service
Debussy the Impressionist?
Tom Service considers whether Claude Debussy was an Impressionist or not.
29 mins
The Listening Service
The French Horn Unwound
Tom Service on the enduring appeal of the 12-foot metal tube that is the French horn.
28 mins
The Listening Service
The Listening Service at Free Thinking
Tom Service explores the idea of polyphony live at the Free Thinking Festival.
30 mins
The Listening Service
Searching for Paradise
The Listening Service joins the BBC's Civilisations season to sound the divine in music.
28 mins
The Listening Service
Orientalism and the Music of Elsewhere
Tom Service unpicks western music's debt to the exotic, from Mozart to Ligeti and beyond.
28 mins
The Listening Service
Drums
Tom Service considers drums - ancient instruments, yet capable of great sophistication.
29 mins
The Listening Service
Is Music a Universal Language?
Tom Service asks whether music really is a universal language.
28 mins
The Listening Service
How does video game music work?
Tom Service looks to discover the secrets behind our favourite video game music.
28 mins
The Listening Service
The Sea
Tom Service explores why and how the sea captured the imaginations of so many musicians.
28 mins
The Listening Service
What does ancient history really sound like?
What did the music of Paleolithic caves or Roman arenas actually sound like?
29 mins
The Listening Service
Syncopation Syncopation Syncopation
What is syncopation? An off-beat edition of The Listening Service. With Tom Service.
28 mins
The Listening Service
The Listening Service recorded live at Hay Festival
The Listening Service recorded live at this year's Hay Festival.
28 mins
The Listening Service
Igor Stravinsky: Understood Best by Children and Animals
Tom Service seeks the essence of Igor Stravinsky's seemingly ever-changing musical style.
29 mins
The Listening Service
Truck Driver Modulation
Tom Service on the art of the sudden key change - and our love-hate relationship with it.
29 mins
The Listening Service
The Fifth
Tom Service savours the sound of the fifth - an interval with many meanings.
29 mins
The Listening Service
Beginnings - Proms 2018 Special
Music – where do we start?
29 mins
The Listening Service
Orchestral Manoeuvres
Tom Service considers composers' and audiences' never-ending commitment to orchestras.
28 mins
The Listening Service
Pioneers of Sound - Proms 2018 Special
Why synths are so cool
29 mins
The Listening Service
Devilish Musical Pacts
Tom Service signs his soul to the devil to explore the Faust story in music.
27 mins
The Listening Service
Mahler's 8th Symphony - 2018 Proms Special
Dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight
28 mins
The Listening Service
Folk Music - 2018 Proms Special
Tom delves in to folk music’s mysterious history ahead of Prom 27
29 mins
The Listening Service
Britten's Sea Interludes - 2018 Proms Special
The sea in all its musical majesty
29 mins
The Listening Service
Colour and Music - 2018 Proms Special
Ahead of Prom 45, Tom investigates the link between music and colour
29 mins
The Listening Service
Endings - 2018 Proms Special
Time for the big finish. But what do endings in music mean? Should it all just fade away?
29 mins
The Listening Service
Virtuosity - 2018 Proms Special
What does it mean to be a good - a really good - musician?
29 mins
The Listening Service
Searching for Paradise - 2018 Proms Special
Exploring sacred music and how it transports us to the divine.
29 mins
The Listening Service
Maxing out on Minimalism
Minimalism in music - is less really more?
30 mins
The Listening Service
Technical Mastery
Music and technology - what do you do when everything is possible?
29 mins
The Listening Service
Speed
A rollercoaster of a show as Tom experiences how music gets our hearts racing.
29 mins
The Listening Service
The Cowpat Controversy
Calling 20th Century English music 'cowpat music' is just plain rude! And it's inaccurate.
30 mins
The Listening Service
The Magical Forest
Enter the magical musical world of the forest. Your guide is Tom Service
30 mins
The Listening Service
Extreme Classical!
What are the most extreme pieces of classical music ever written?
29 mins
The Listening Service
What counts as "classical music"?
What do we actually mean when we talk about "classical music"?
29 mins
The Listening Service
Rossini - Master Chef and Maestro
A celebration of 'Signor Crescendo' Gioachino Rossini, operatic genius and gourmand.
29 mins
The Listening Service
Concertos: All for one and one for all?
What is a concerto? Tom Service asks how they work and what it is like to be a soloist.
29 mins
The Listening Service
The Nutcracker - Strange Enchantments
Think The Nutcracker is a super-saccharine classic for the feel-good season? Think again.
30 mins
The Listening Service
How to Sing Classical -Vibrato!
Good vibrations or horrible wobbling? Why do singers use vibrato?
58 mins
The Listening Service
Classical Icons
Who are the icons of classical music? And are they born or made?
30 mins
The Listening Service
Riffs, loops and ostinati - the art of repeating yourself!
Tom presses repeat - again and again and again ...
31 mins
The Listening Service
The Key to Keys
Tom Service asks why is western music in so many different keys and what exactly are they?
30 mins
The Listening Service
Can music be gendered?
Can you hear 'masculine' and 'feminine' in music?
29 mins
The Listening Service
The Double Bass
The elephant in the room? No, the Double Bass is much more.
30 mins
The Listening Service
Bruckner and the Symphonic Boa Constrictors
Is listening to a Bruckner symphony really like being crushed to death by a giant snake?
30 mins
The Listening Service
Anger in Music
Today at Sage Gateshead Tom finds out how music can induce, express and exorcise anger.
30 mins
The Listening Service
The Power of One
What special magic happens in music where there is no harmony?
29 mins
The Listening Service
Why are classical audiences so quiet?
Tom Service looks at why we are all so tense and silent during classical concerts. Shhhh!
29 mins
The Listening Service
Ranked Amateurs
Amateur musicians' vital role in music and performance over the last three centuries.
29 mins
The Listening Service
What is Sound Art? And why?
Tom Service considers the rise of Sound Art. Is it art music or something else?
28 mins
The Listening Service
Sound of the Underground
What does underground sound like? From earth-inspired music to sounds of the earth itself.
29 mins
The Listening Service
What's the point of practice?
Does practice make perfect? And what is perfect practice? Tom Service finds out.
28 mins
The Listening Service
Countertenors - classical rock gods!
A celebration of male singers who can hit those high notes!
28 mins
The Listening Service
Better than background music?
Is music for theatre more than just a prop?
29 mins
The Listening Service
Why do babies love music?
Tom Service asks why we seem to love music from the day we're born - are we born musical?
29 mins
The Listening Service
Is complicated music better than simple music?
Tom Service looks at complexity in music - can we actually hear what's going on?
29 mins
In Tune Highlights
Welsh folk and piano trios
Sean Rafferty presents the best of the last week on BBC Radio 3's In Tune
32 mins
Afternoon Concert
BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Gershwin and Elgar
Kate Molleson introduces recordings by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
90 mins
Choral Evensong
York Minster
Live from York Minster.
59 mins
New Generation Artists
Duparc and Mozart from James Newby and Aleksey Semenenko
James Newby sings Duparc and Aleksey Sememenko play Mozart.
31 mins
Gleus
16/01/2019
Air Gleus an t-seachdain sa ceòl le JS Bach, Eric Satie, Gustav Holst agus gu leòr eile.
57 mins

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