Classical music
The Essay. Breaking Free, Stephen Johnson. Audio, 15 minutes
Stephen Johnson discusses Schoenberg's String Quartet No 2.
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The Essay. Breaking Free, Sarah Walker. Audio, 15 minutes
Sarah Walker on learning and playing Schoenberg's Suite for Piano, Op 25, for her MA.
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Sunday Feature. Breaking Free: Freud versus Music. Audio, 45 minutes
Stephen Johnson explores Sigmund Freud's enigmatic relationship with music.
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Great Lives. Orlando Murrin on Dinu Lipatti. Audio, 30 minutes
Matthew Parris invites Orlando Murrin to discuss the life of Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti
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Between the Ears. Requiem. Audio, 30 minutes
The instruments of a string ensemble are physically deconstructed as they play Beethoven.
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The Listening Service. Schubert - The Dark Side. Audio, 30 minutes
Tom Service delves into the dark side of Franz Schubert.
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Sunday Feature. The Secrets of the Music Reading Panel. Audio, 44 minutes
Who were the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s gatekeepers for new scores for broadcast? Charlotte Higgins finds out.
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The Listening Service. Tristan und Isolde. Audio, 29 minutes
Tom Service on the supercharged emotional impact of Wagner's epic opera Tristan und Isolde
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Desert Island Discs. Joyce DiDonato. Audio, 37 minutes
Joyce DiDonato is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
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Sunday Feature. Vladimir Ashkenazy on Ansel Adams: The Print and the Performance. Audio, 45 minutes
Vladimir Ashkenazy reveals how classical music influenced the photography of Ansel Adams.
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- Available for over a year
The Voices of... Series 1, Ian Partridge. Audio, 30 minutes
A portrait of the English lyric tenor Ian Partridge, in his own words and recordings.
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Profile. Stephen Hough. Audio, 13 minutes
Series of profiles of people who are currently making headlines. Pianist Stephen Hough.
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Sunday Feature. Dawn on the Somme. Audio, 45 minutes
Kate Kennedy explores the Somme through the lives of musicians who took part in the battle
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The Listening Service. Beethoven - Hero or Villain? Audio, 29 minutes
Tom Service asks if posterity's casting of Beethoven as a hero is problematic.
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The Essay. A Reflection on Worrying, A Reflection on Worrying: Worry and Music. Audio, 15 minutes
Musician Tom McKinney on how his own worry runs much deeper than that of stage fright.
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The Radio 3 Documentary. Antonio Carlos Gomes, the Brazilian who conquered La Scala. Audio, 44 minutes
Fabio Zanon on how Brazilian composer Carlos Gomes conquered La Scala in the 19th century
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Sunday Feature. Antonio Carlos Gomes, the Brazilian Who Conquered La Scala. Audio, 45 minutes
Fabio Zanon on how Brazilian composer Carlos Gomes conquered La Scala in the 19th century.
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The Essay. Get Playing, Get Playing: Poet Fiona Sampson on playing the violin. Audio, 15 minutes
Poet Fiona Sampson discusses her early life as a violinist.
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A Point of View. The Ring of the Nibelung. Audio, 1 minute
Following the death of Sir Roger Scruton, a chance to listen again to one of his talks.
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The Essay. The Art of Storytelling, The Art of Storytelling: Clemency Burton Hill. Audio, 15 minutes
Broadcaster Clemency Burton-Hill considers the relationship between storytelling and music
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The Listening Service. What is it about Mozart? Audio, 29 minutes
Tom Service asks, 'What is it about Mozart?' Rethink music with The Listening Service.
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Sunday Feature. Menuhin at 100. Audio, 45 minutes
The story of the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin, using ´óÏó´«Ã½ archive material.
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Between the Ears. First Find Your Tree. Audio, 30 minutes
Feature about violin maker Andrea Ortona's work creating a copy of a Guarneri Kemp violin.
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