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How to Sing Classical - Vibrato!
How to Sing Classical - Vibrato!
Good vibrations or horrible wobbling? Why do singers use vibrato?Tom Service goes to the wobbling heart of the matter of... Read more
4 Nov 2020
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Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
In a programme first broadcast in 2017, Tom Service explores arguably the most famous piece of music in the world: the O... Read more
28 Oct 2018
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What does ancient history really sound like?
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From Paleolithic caves to Roman arenas, we know that music was made, and even what instruments were played - but what di... Read more
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Tom Service discovers endless variety in music based on a drone - from rustic dance to mystic religious ecstasy. Medieva... Read more
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Drums
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Colour and Music - 2018 Proms Special
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Background Music
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Tom tunes into the background, exploring what background music really is; telling the surprising story of the Muzak corp... Read more
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How do you listen to a four-hour opera? Tom Service considers the extraordinary impact of Wagner's opera Tristan und Iso... Read more
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Folk Music - 2018 Proms Special
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Tom delves in to folk music’s mysterious history before Prom 27, celebrating folk music across Britain and Ireland with ... Read more
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Chasing a Fugue
Chasing a Fugue
Tom Service looks at music in flight - the miraculous musical form that is the fugue, where melodies chase each other, w... Read more
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Virtuosity
Virtuosity
Virtuosity: what does it mean to be good? Really, really good? If you're a virtuoso pianist, violinist, cellist, does th... Read more
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The Listening Service Extra 8 of 12 - Alban Berg
The Listening Service Extra 8 of 12 - Alban Berg
We listen to Schoenberg’s praise of his pupil, Alban Berg - and his surprise that this “soft-hearted young man” could wr... Read more
29 Dec 2016
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Truck Driver Modulation
Truck Driver Modulation
Today on The Listening Service Tom gets into gear for the truck driver modulation - crunching from one key to another, a... Read more
24 Jun 2018
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The Synthesizer. Hannah Peel, Peter Zinovieff
The Synthesizer. Hannah Peel, Peter Zinovieff
Tom Service investigates the rise of the synthesizer. How did this initially crude assemblage of electrical components d... Read more
12 Nov 2017
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Transcendence
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Tom Service considers how music can be transcendent. From Wagner's sublime harmonies in Tristan und Isolde, to the hypno... Read more
18 Jul 2016
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Why is music addicted to bass?
Why is music addicted to bass?
Can you imagine a piece of music without its bass line? Or going out dancing with no bass to move to?Whether it's an epi... Read more
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Improvisation
Improvisation
Tom Service considers the art of musical improvisation. When pianist Lenny Tristano first recorded free improvisations i... Read more
13 Nov 2016
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The Listening Service Extra 11 of 12 - Twelve-tone music and its reception
The Listening Service Extra 11 of 12 - Twelve-tone music and its reception
We hear Schoenberg on the reception of his music in America, Europe.'When in 1933 I came to America I was a very renowne... Read more
29 Dec 2016
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