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What you see is what you hear?

Tom Service asks whether the way composers like Hildegard, Bach and Beethoven are depicted in art influences the way we hear their music. Rethink music with The Listening Service.

Tom Service asks whether the way we see composers depicted in art influences the way we hear their music.
With particular reference to three pictures that you can see on the Listening Service page of the Radio 3 website for this programme - Hildegard of Bingen, Bach and Beethoven.
Rethink music with The Listening Service.

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Sun 10 Jun 2018 17:00
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Music Played

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures from an Exhibition - Promenade and Tuileries

    Composer: Maurice Ravel. Performer: Montreal SO. Performer: Charles Dutoit.
    • Decca.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Born In The USA

    • Born in the U.S.A..
    • Columbia Records.

  • David Bowie

    Starman

    • The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
    • RCA Victor.

  • Madonna

    Material Girl

    • Like a Virgin.
    • Sire Records.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O quam magnam miraculum est

    Performer: Sequentia.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite for solo cello no 1 BWV 1007 in G major - Prelude

    Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • Hyperion.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B minor BWV 232 : Kyrie

    Performer: Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra. Performer: Karl Richter.
    • Archiv.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B minor BWV 232 : Gloria

    Performer: Monteverdi Choir. Performer: English Baroque Soloists. Performer: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg variations (BWV.988), Variation 12; Canone alla quarta

    Performer: Dmitry Sitkovetsky. Performer: Yuri Zhislin. Performer: Luigi Piovano.
    • Nimbus.

  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony no 2 - Slow movement

    Performer: Staatskapelle Dresden. Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Decca.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata no 29 in B flat op 106 Hammerklavier - 1st movt

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata for violin and piano op 24 in F major Spring - 1st movt

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Eine Kleine Nachtmusik K 525 - 3rd movt

    Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker. Performer: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no 13 in C K 415

    Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout. Performer: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Performer: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 5 Feb 2017 17:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
  • Sun 10 Jun 2018 17:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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