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The Listening Service Episodes

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    Cover Versions

    Tom Service explores cover versions – from Baroque to pop.

  2. Schubert - The Dark Side

    Tom Service delves into the dark side of Franz Schubert.

  3. Colour and music

    Tom Service explores the link between music and colour. Can music be colourful?

  4. Tristan und Isolde

    Tom Service on the supercharged emotional impact of Wagner's epic opera Tristan und Isolde

  5. Sound Frontiers: Listening to Recordings

    As part of Radio 3 Live at Southbank Centre, Tom Service explores recorded sound.

  6. Why is music addicted to bass?

    Tom Service explores the intrinsic importance to humans of bass in music.

  7. Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto

    Tom Service explores Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto.

  8. Transcendence

    Tom Service considers musical transcendence.

  9. Chasing a Fugue

    Tom Service explores fugues. How do they work and why are they important?

  10. Why does music move us?

    Tom Service investigates how music can tug on our heartstrings like nothing else.

  11. Beethoven - Hero or Villain?

    Tom Service asks if posterity's casting of Beethoven as a hero is problematic.

  12. Is Birdsong Music?

    Tom Service asks how birdsong has inspired and equipped human music over the years.

  13. How do you describe a teaspoon in music?

    Tom Service explores music's power to describe, illustrate and tell stories in sound.

  14. How Do You Make a National Anthem?

    Tom Service on the music, meaning and occasional madness of national anthems.

  15. The Power of Love Songs

    Tom Service explores the enduring power of love songs.

  16. What's All that Noise?

    Tom Service asks when is noise just noise, and when is it music.

  17. What is it about Mozart?

    Tom Service asks, 'What is it about Mozart?' Rethink music with The Listening Service.

  18. Repetition

    Tom Service and Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis explore why repetition is essential in music.

  19. Beginnings

    Tom Service explores how to get a piece of music off to a good start.

  20. Whatever happened to the Waltz?

    Tom Service presents waltzes from history, and discovers why it swept across the world.

  21. What's the Point of the Conductor?

    Tom Service explores the role of the conductor.

  22. What counts as "classical music"?

    What do we actually mean when we talk about "classical music"?

  23. Welcome to The Listening Service

    Welcome to this new Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ podcast. The first episode will be published within seven days.

  24. Virtuosity - 2018 Proms Special

    What does it mean to be a good - a really good - musician?

  25. The Way I See It: Jason Moran and Piet Mondrian

    Jazz pianist & composer Jason Moran shares his view of Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie.

  26. The Semitone

    Tom Service on the semitone - what can you do with the smallest interval in Western music?

  27. The Proms Podcast Episode II - A New Episode

    While The Listening Service takes a break, why not try this episode of The Proms Podcast?

  28. The Necessity of Musical Mediocrity

    The dull, second-rate and banal are the foundation of lasting greatness, says Tom Service.

  29. The Listening Service Extra 9 of 12 - Tennis Partners

    Tom looks at Schoenberg’s love of Gershwin, who was also his tennis partner in Hollywood.

  30. The Listening Service Extra 8 of 12 - Alban Berg

    We listen to Schoenberg’s praise of his pupil, Alban Berg...

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