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| Afternoon On 3 | ...Presented by TOM SERVICE.... |
| Artist Focus | ...With TOM SERVICE. A sequence of music with a featured performer leading the way. The multi-talented Wayne Marshall begins by conducting the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra in music by George Gershwin ... |
| Bbc Proms 2007 | ...Presented by TOM SERVICE, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.... |
| Bbc Proms 2008 | ...Presented by TOM SERVICE, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.... |
| Bbc Proms | ...Presented by TOM SERVICE.... |
| Bbc Singers | ...Presented by TOM SERVICE live from St Giles Cripplegate in London's Barbican Centre.... |
| Dancing The Apocalypse | ...TOM SERVICE explores the dark universe of Ravel's 12 minute masterpiece, La Valse, one the most powerful and puzzling pieces in the whole orchestral repertoire. It’s a work that is a portrait of a whole genre of music – The Waltz – its birth, life, and death. Ravel composed it in 1919 and 1920, after his devastating experiences serving in the First World War and the death of his mother, the human being he was closest to in his whole life. He initially planned the work in 1906 as a tribute to the waltzes of Johann Strauss, and the seductive, sensual structures of the dance form, a piece of music that would embody the whirling pleasure of dancers in Imperial balls in Vienna in the nineteenth century.... |
| Discovering Music | ...TOM SERVICE is joined by composer Julian Anderson, who is a great advocate of Ligeti's work, and a team of celebrated contemporary music specialists - pianist Rolf Hind, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG), and conductor Martyn Brabbins - for an exploration of the musical workings and ideas behind this virtuoso tour de force and one of the late 20th century's musical masterpieces.... |
| Elgar 150th Anniversary | ...TOM SERVICE and Anthony Payne introduce concerts celebrating the 150th anniversary of Elgar's birth.... |
| Hear And Now | ...Verity Sharp presents new music inspired by landscape, recorded especially for the programme by soprano Jane Manning and Jane's Minstrels conducted by Roger Montgomery. Anthony Payne: Empty Landscape, Heart's Ease. Deirdre Gribbin: How to Make the Water Sound. Per Norgaard: Seadrift. Julian Anderson: Sea Drift. Betsy Schramm: while east deserves of dawn. Anthony Payne: Evening Land. Plus a report from TOM SERVICE about the Second Biennial International Conference of 20th-Century Music, held last weekend at Goldsmith's College, London.... |
| Inspired By Faith | ...TOM SERVICE explores the place of CHRISTIAN faith in contemporary classical music. Contributors include James MacMillan, Sally Beamish and Judith Bingham.... |
| Journey Into The Heart Of Finnish Music, A | ...As Finland celebrates not only its ninetieth year of independence and also marks the fiftieth anniversary of Sibelius's death, TOM SERVICE travels to Helsinki to get to the heart of what drives the extraordinary Finnish music scene.... |
| Judith Weir - Telling The Tale | ...Live from LSO St Luke's, London, TOM SERVICE presents a chamber concert as part of a weekend dedicated to the music of leading British composer Judith Weir. The performers, The Schubert Ensemble, have transformed the British chamber music landscape by commissioning around 40 works - including several in this concert.... |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen - A Portrait | ...German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who died in December last year, was an icon of the avant-garde. TOM SERVICE talks to Stockhausen's family, friends and collaborators - including Pierre Boulez, his son Markus Stockhausen, comedian and writer John Bird and pianist Nicolas Hodges - to find out just what it was that marked him out as such a pioneering and influential figure in 20th and 21st century music.... |
| Leonard Bernstein | ...TOM SERVICE looks back to these landmarks of televised music education with help from people close to Bernstein, including his daughter Jamie who inspired much of their content.... |
| Mendelssohn Weekend | ...TOM SERVICE, Louise Fryer and studio guests including writer and broadcaster Judith Chernaik and conductor Ben Parry reassess Mendelssohn's reputation and legacy 200 years after his birth, asking what lies behind our tendency to underrate him?... |
| Music Matters | ...Music magazine with TOM SERVICE, featuring an interview with New York pianist and writer Charles Rosen, and a look at A Tale Of Four Houses, a new book charting the history of four of the world's most important and influential opera houses: The Royal Opera House; La Scala in Milan; Vienna's Staatsoper; and the New York Met.... |
| Opera On 3 | ...Laurent Pelly's production for the Royal Opera House stars Aleksandra Kurzak, Stefano Secco and Ludovic Tezier, under the baton of Mikko Franck. TOM SERVICE presents, and is joined in the box by Italian opera expert Professor Roger Parker to guide us through one of Donizetti's most popular works.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...A song recital by soprano Christine Brewer and pianist Roger Vignoles, presented by TOM SERVICE.... |
| R3 Music Feature | ...TOM SERVICE delves into Ravel's La valse, considered to be one of the most original and enigmatic works in all music.... |
| Sunday Feature | ...Curiouser And Curiouser. Ligeti At 80: TOM SERVICE presents a portrait of Hungarian composer György Ligeti, including a substantial recent interview with him, and contributions from close friends and collaborators including Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Heinz-Otto Peitgen. The endless twists and turns of Ligeti's musical development have encompassed Hollywood sci-fi, African rhythms, Alice in Wonderland, and chaos theory. So what is it that makes all this music sound unmistakeably his own?... |
| Tchaikovsky Experience, The | ...TOM SERVICE starts the week.... |
| Twenty Minutes | ...TOM SERVICE looks at the history of BBC commissioning policy, hearing from some of those responsible, and sampling some of the results.... |