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Is Classical music fashionable?
Is classical music in fashion? Who's listening and what are they actually listening to?
Musical Highs
Toms Service explores the way composers engineer musical crescendos and climaxes.
HIPP to Be Square
Historically Informed Performance Practice, or HIPP: what is it and why?
Is it canon?
The classical music canon - who decides what's in and what's out? And can it change?
The Goldberg Variations
Tom Service unlocks mysteries of Bach's towering keyboard work The Goldberg Variations.
Going Slow
Tom Service on what happens when our music goes slow.
Music and breathing
How is the rhythm and physicality of our breathing reflected in music?
The Musical Universe of Maurice Ravel
Tom Service scopes the musical world of one of his favourite composers, Maurice Ravel.
Wagner’s Ring Cycle: The Ultimate Box Set Binge
Tom Service explores classical music’s ultimate binge-listening box set - The Ring.
Talking in music
Tom Service explores talking in music - from 'sprechgesang' to rap.
