Classical music
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.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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Sunday Feature. Menuhin at 100. Audio, 45 minutes
The story of the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin, using BBC archive material.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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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.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. Inspiring Women in Music, Inspiring Women in Music: Zoe Martlew. Audio, 14 minutes
Cellist, performer, composer, blogger and educator Zoe Martlew discusses her life in music
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. Inspiring Women in Music, Inspiring Women in Music: Alice Farnham. Audio, 15 minutes
Alice Farnham, one of Britain's leading female conductors, discusses her life in music.
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The Essay. Inspiring Women in Music, Inspiring Women in Music: Kathryn McAdam. Audio, 15 minutes
Soprano Kathryn McAdam discusses her life in music as well as what and who inspires her.
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The Essay. Inspiring Women in Music, Inspiring Women in Music: Nicola LeFanu. Audio, 15 minutes
Composer Nicola LeFanu discusses her musical career, spanning over half a century.
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The Essay. Inspiring Women in Music, Inspiring Women in Music: Sarah Connolly. Audio, 15 minutes
Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly on her career, her family and characters she has played.
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The Essay. Music in Its Time, Music in Its Time - Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks. Audio, 15 minutes
The spectacular state-of-the-art first performance of Handel's Royal Fireworks.
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The Essay. Music in Its Time, Music in Its Time - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4. Audio, 15 minutes
Stephen Johnson on Beethoven's decision to unveil three new works at one public concert.
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The Essay. Music in Its Time, Music in Its Time - Shostakovich: Symphony No 5. Audio, 15 minutes
Stephen Johnson considers how Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony surprised its audience.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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Black, White and Beethoven. Audio, 30 minutes
Joseph Harker asks why Britain's classical music scene remains so resolutely white.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Essay. Music in Its Time, Music in Its Time - Byrd: Mass for Four Voices. Audio, 15 minutes
The secret performances of Byrd's masses in Elizabethan England.
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The Essay. Music in Its Time, Music in Its Time - Mahler's Symphony No 8. Audio, 15 minutes
The 1910 premiere of Mahler's Eighth Symphony, for which he hired impresario Emil Gutman.
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The Essay. The Secret Mathematician, Music. Audio, 15 minutes
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy reveals the maths that inspires the work of musicians.
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The Essay. Secret Admirers (Series 2) Petroc Trelawny on Lennox Berkeley. Audio, 14 minutes
Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny celebrates English composer Lennox Berkeley.
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Raising the Dead. Audio, 30 minutes
Composer Adam Gorb goes on a journey to listen to the lost music of concentration camps.
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The Essay. Secret Admirers (Series 2) John Toal on Maurice Ravel. Audio, 14 minutes
Radio 3 presenter John Toal celebrates French composer Maurice Ravel.
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The Essay. Secret Admirers (Series 2) Clemency Burton-Hill on George Enescu. Audio, 14 minutes
Clemency Burton-Hill celebrates Romanian composer George Enescu
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The Essay. Secret Admirers (Series 2) Ian McMillan on Ralph Vaughan Williams. Audio, 14 minutes
Radio 3 presenter and poet Ian McMillan celebrates the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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The Essay. Secret Admirers (Series 2) Fiona Talkington on Joseph Canteloube. Audio, 14 minutes
Radio 3 presenter Fiona Talkington celebrates French composer Joseph Canteloube.
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Sunday Feature. Pierre Boulez: Rebel with a Cause. Audio, 44 minutes
An archive episode of the Sunday Feature to commemorate the death of Pierre Boulez
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The Essay. Five Seismic Moments in New Music, Tom Service - Where Have All the Seismic Moments Gone? Audio, 15 minutes
Tom Service reflects on the lack of any seismic shocks in 21st-century music.
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