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Sunday Morning Episodes

  1. 21/09/2008

    Iain asks if where we listen to music might have an effect on the way we hear it.

  2. 14/09/2008

    Iain focuses on the music of Bohemia, introducing pieces by Dvorak, Smetana and Janacek.

  3. 07/09/2008

    Iain focuses on musical heroines and is joined by Peggy Reynolds to talk about hers.

  4. 31/08/2008

    Iain considers ideas of light and dark, and how composers have responded to these.

  5. Festivals

    Mary King sits in for Iain Burnside and looks at music festivals and their musicians.

  6. Mary King - Music about Town and Country

    Mary King sits in for Iain and explores music comparing the ideas of town and country.

  7. 10/08/2008

    Mary King sits in for Iain Burnside and explores the world of left-handed musicians.

  8. Rivers, lakes and seas

    Mary King sits in for Iain Burnside. Music by Ravel, Barber, Mendelssohn, Liadov, Elgar.

  9. 27/07/2008

    Iain looks at contraptions composers have invented to enliven their sound palettes.

  10. 20/07/2008

    Iain considers the relationship between politics and music. Including music by Ligeti.

  11. Death

    Iain looks at the influence of death and bereavement on composers.

  12. 06/07/2008

    Music includes Busoni's All'Italia, Berlioz's Harold in Italy and Elgar's In the South.

  13. Iain Burnside - Celebrating Summer

    Including Tippet: Dances from The Midsummer Marriage and Sorabji: Transcendental Studies.

  14. 22/06/2008

    Iain considers the influence of landscape on music, focusing on Bax, Howells and Messiaen.

  15. 15/06/2008

    For a Father's Day special, Iain is joined by poet Jo Shapcott.

  16. 08/06/2008

    Iain explores the science of music, focusing on works by Borodin, Elgar and Hindemith.

  17. 01/06/2008

    Iain is live from the Guildhall, Bath, with guests Joanna MacGregor and cellist Tim Hugh.

  18. 25/05/2008

    Focusing on Vienna and the music and musicians who have come from the city.

  19. Iain Burnside

    Iain talks to pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet about Chopin's pianistic influence on Paris.

  20. 11/05/2008

    Looking at the notion of musical recycling, with music including Britten's Lachrymae.

  21. 04/05/2008

    With works inspired by the month of May, including Berio's Folk Songs.

  22. 27/04/2008

    Choreographer/director Will Tuckett selects music by Vaughan Williams and Stravinsky.

  23. 20/04/2008

    With Nicholas Hytner, director of the National Theatre. Featuring music by Frank Bridge.

  24. 13/04/2008

    Debating the question that if architecture is frozen music, how does it sound?

  25. 06/04/2008

    With a programme on the theme of food and gluttony that includes music by Bach and Weill.

  26. 30/03/2008

    Iain ponders the relationship between music and sexuality.

  27. 23/03/2008

    Iain presents a programme focusing on the themes of war and peace.

  28. 16/03/2008

    To mark St Patrick's Day, Iain presents a selection of Irish-themed works.

  29. 09/03/2008

    Including Elgar's Piano Quintet, Prokofiev's opera The Gambler and music by Haydn and Weir

  30. 02/03/2008

    With music inspired by Russia's turbulent history, including Lyadov's The Enchanted Lake.

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