Classical music
The Essay. Stories That Sing, Patricia Duncker: How I Fell in Love with Opera. Audio, 14 minutes
Patricia Duncker on the dangerous and seductive ways opera can overwhelm the senses.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Stories That Sing, Julian Barnes: Opera - Coming to it Late. Audio, 14 minutes
Opera used to baffle Julian Barnes, then something happened and everything changed.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Sir James MacMillan. Audio, 37 minutes
Sir James MacMillan, composer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. John Tusa's Opera Journey. Audio, 60 minutes
John Tusa revisits the three provincial German towns where he first discovered opera.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted7 October 2017
The Listening Service. Why is opera so ridiculous? Audio, 29 minutes
Tom Service considers opera - capable of great profundity, why is it also ridiculous?
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Comedian and actor Alistair McGowan on his new piano album. Video, 00:02:18
Comedian and actor Alistair McGowan is releasing a new piano album
- AttributionBBC
- Posted29 September 2017
The Listening Service. The Proms Podcast Episode II - A New Episode. Audio, 24 minutes
While The Listening Service takes a break, why not try this episode of The Proms Podcast?
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Behind the Scenes. Series 1, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla. Audio, 42 minutes
Verity Sharp follows the CBSO's music director in the first year of her new role.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Geeking Glenn Gould. Audio, 45 minutes
James Rhodes goes in hunt of his boyhood hero, Candian pianist Glenn Gould.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Voices of... Series 2, Christopher Robson. Audio, 30 minutes
Countertenor Christopher Robson reflects on his life in music.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. The Dvorak Statement. Audio, 45 minutes
Mahan Esfahani discovers the past and present of African-American classical music.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Listening Service. What's the Point of the Conductor? Audio, 30 minutes
Tom Service explores the role of the conductor.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Monteverdi 450: Monteverdi's Women. Audio, 45 minutes
Catherine Fletcher measures the impact of Monteverdi's real and fictional female figures.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution: A Square Dance in Heaven. Audio, 45 minutes
The Rev Lucy Winkett takes a musical tour of the Reformation.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Listening Service. Brahms - Behind the Beard. Audio, 29 minutes
Tom Service considers whether Brahms had the most famous beard in classical music.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
A Passion for Bach. Audio, 30 minutes
Exploring the special place the music of Bach occupies in the lives of many music lovers.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
BACH: Man of Passion. Audio, 30 minutes
Professor John Butt explores the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Pepys the Musician. Audio, 30 minutes
Lucie Skeaping hears music written for Pepys, played for the first time since his death.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Radio 3 Documentary. Opera Across the Waves. Audio, 44 minutes
Flora Willson traces the roots of global opera broadcasting to old New York.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Opera across the Waves. Audio, 45 minutes
Flora Willson traces the roots of global opera broadcasting to old New York.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Listening Service. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Audio, 30 minutes
Tom Service explores the finale from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Boulez and His Rumble in the Jungle. Audio, 45 minutes
The story of how three trips to South America in the 1950s changed Pierre Boulez's life.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
