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The Listening Service Episodes

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    Collage, writ large: Berio's Sinfonia

    Tom Service explores Luciano Berio's 1968 Sinfonia for orchestra and 8 amplified voices.

  2. Mystery, rumour and deception: Mozart's Requiem

    Tom Service dissects Mozart's final, unfinished masterpiece.

  3. Symphonic Steampunk: Saint-SaΓ«ns's Organ Symphony

    Tom Service dissects Camille Saint-SaΓ«ns's Third 'Organ' Symphony.

  4. On the March: Pomp, Circumstance and Dam Busters

    Tom Service on musical marches.

  5. David Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion

    Tom Service explores Lang's Pulitzer-Prize-winning secular take on the Christian Passion.

  6. Also Sprach Zarathustra: Strauss’s New Dawn

    Tom explores a piece composed by Strauss, inspired by Nietzsche and made famous by Kubrick

  7. Britten's Choral Christmas

    Tom Service explores the stories behind some of Britten's best-loved festive works.

  8. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune: Half Man, Half Myth, All Debussy

    Tom Service plunges into the heady sound world of the Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.

  9. Kurt Weill and The Threepenny Opera

    Tom Service dives into the decadent sound world of Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera.

  10. Steve Reich's Different Trains: Minimalism and Memory

    Tom Service explores the minimalist composer Steve Reich's 1988 piece Different Trains.

  11. The Hebrides Overture: Mendelssohn's melodious cave

    Tom Service explores the story behind the very first orchestral tone poem.

  12. Musical Time Travel: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Vaughan Williams

    Tom Service on one of Vaughan Williams' most spellbinding pieces of music.

  13. Musical Ecstasy

    Tom Service explores musical ecstasy from techno to classical

  14. Stormy Weather

    Tom explores how storms have inspired composers and musicians from Beethoven to Britten.

  15. The Enchantment of Chant

    Tom explores how chant has resonated across a thousand years of music.

  16. Abracadabra

    Tom Service explores the connections between music and magic.

  17. TV Themes

    Tom Service explores television themes with Oscar-winning composer Anne Dudley.

  18. The Music of Sound

    Tom Service on the mutually creative relationship between music and its surroundings.

  19. What's the point of cadenzas?

    Tom Service explores cadenzas with the American pianist Jeremy Denk at the Hay Festival.

  20. Royal Music

    Music fit for kings, queens, princes and princesses: but what do we mean by royal music?

  21. Can music be funny?

    Tom Service on the art of classical music comedy. And it's not necessarily about timing.

  22. The Musical Recycling Plant

    From composers to composters: how and why do composers re-use their own music?

  23. What's in a Name?

    Tom Service on the often baffling language of classical music naming and numbering.

  24. Song Cycles and Concept Albums

    Tom Service explores the connections between song cycles and concept albums.

  25. Finishing the Hat

    Tom Service explores the lyrics and legacy of musical theatre composer Stephen Sondheim.

  26. John Williams - the Force of Music!

    Tom Service has a close encounter with the film music of John Williams.

  27. Classical Crossover

    Tom Service turns his ears to a musical world where classical and pop converge.

  28. Recorders

    Tom Service explores the music and mystery of that schooldays favourite - the recorder.

  29. Dancing about Architecture

    Is writing about music really like dancing about architecture?

  30. Playing at sight and playing from memory

    Tom Service flexes his musical memory muscles whilst also improving his sight reading.

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