Classical music
Sunday Feature. Who Was Richard Strauss? Audio, 45 minutes
Tom Service travels to Switzerland in search of the real Richard Strauss.
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The Essay. Brahms Experience, Brahms and the Future. Audio, 15 minutes
Pianist and writer Natasha Loges discusses Brahms's views on the future of music.
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The Essay. Brahms Experience, Brahms and Freud. Audio, 15 minutes
Lesley Chamberlain asks what can be learnt by comparing the work of Brahms and Freud.
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The Essay. Brahms Experience, Brahms and Germany. Audio, 15 minutes
Natasha Loges explores Brahms's complex political relationship with his homeland.
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The Essay. Brahms Experience, Brahms and Nature. Audio, 15 minutes
Writer Lesley Chamberlain investigates how Brahms was influenced by the natural world.
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The Essay. Brahms Experience, Public Brahms, Private Brahms. Audio, 15 minutes
Pianist Natasha Loges considers what lay behind Brahms's famously gruff public persona.
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Sunday Feature. Global Classical Music - A New World Symphony, Education - 30 Million Young Pianists. Audio, 45 minutes
The impact and effectiveness of education in sustaining the growth in classical music.
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Sunday Feature. Global Classical Music - A New World Symphony, New Orchestras, New Repertoire? Audio, 45 minutes
Petroc Trelawny on the futures of global orchestras, including in China, Qatar and Brazil.
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The Essay. Music in Its Time, The Firebird. Audio, 15 minutes
Stephen Johnson on the reactions of the first audiences to Stravinsky's The Firebird.
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The Essay. Music in Its Time, Bach: St Matthew Passion. Audio, 15 minutes
Exploring the impact of Bach's St Matthew Passion on its first audiences in Leipzig.
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The Essay. Music in Its Time, Scenes from Childhood. Audio, 15 minutes
Exploring how Schumann's Scenes from Childhood were listened to by their first audiences.
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The Essay. Music in Its Time, Victoria: Lamentations. Audio, 15 minutes
Exploring the impact of Victoria's Lamentations on listeners in Counter-Reformation Rome.
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The Essay. Music in Its Time, Haydn: Symphony No 100 (Military) Audio, 15 minutes
Exploring the impact of Haydn's Military Symphony on its first audiences in 1790s London.
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Sunday Feature. Global Classical Music - A New World Symphony, Cultural Monuments. Audio, 45 minutes
Petroc Trelawny discusses the new wave of concert venue building projects under way.
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Four Thought. Series 4, Creative Women. Audio, 15 minutes
Anna Beer asks why we do not hear more music composed by women.
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A Bombay Symphony. Audio, 30 minutes
Zareer Masani on the new love for, and controversy over, Western classical music in India.
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Who Does John Hegley Think He Is? Audio, 30 minutes
John Hegley thinks he might be descended from French composer Rameau. Could it be true?
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Sunday Feature. Clocks and Clouds: An Adventure Around György Ligeti. Audio, 45 minutes
A portrait of a magnificent and mischievous musical spirit, György Ligeti.
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Great Lives. Emma Kirkby on Henry Purcell. Audio, 30 minutes
Soprano Emma Kirkby discusses the life of composer Henry Purcell with Matthew Parris
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Sunday Feature. Educating Isaac. Audio, 45 minutes
Nicholas Baragwanath explores a forgotten mode of music education once used in Naples.
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Great Lives. Evelyn Glennie on Jacqueline Du Pre. Audio, 30 minutes
English Cellist Jacqueline Du Pre is championed by solo percussionist Evelyn Glennie.
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Sunday Feature. Billy - The Other Lloyd Webber. Audio, 45 minutes
Andrew Green explores the life and little-heard romantic music of William Lloyd Webber.
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Sunday Feature. Music and the Jews, It Ain't Necessarily So. Audio, 45 minutes
Norman Lebrecht on the idea of a 'Jewish thumbprint' in Mendelssohn's and others' music.
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