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Musical Ecstasy

Tom Service explores musical ecstasy from techno to classical

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Musical Time Travel: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Vaughan Williams

Tom Service on one of Vaughan Williams' most spellbinding pieces of music.

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The Hebrides Overture: Mendelssohn's melodious cave

Tom Service explores the story behind the very first orchestral tone poem.

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Steve Reich's Different Trains: Minimalism and Memory

Tom Service explores the minimalist composer Steve Reich's 1988 piece Different Trains.

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Kurt Weill and The Threepenny Opera

Tom Service dives into the decadent sound world of Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera.

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Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune: Half Man, Half Myth, All Debussy

Tom Service plunges into the heady sound world of the Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.

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Britten's Choral Christmas

Tom Service explores the stories behind some of Britten's best-loved festive works.

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Also Sprach Zarathustra: Strauss’s New Dawn

Tom explores a piece composed by Strauss, inspired by Nietzsche and made famous by Kubrick

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David Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion

Tom Service explores Lang's Pulitzer-Prize-winning secular take on the Christian Passion.

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On the March: Pomp, Circumstance and Dam Busters

Tom Service on musical marches.

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Symphonic Steampunk: Saint-Saëns's Organ Symphony

Tom Service dissects Camille Saint-Saëns's Third 'Organ' Symphony.

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Mystery, rumour and deception: Mozart's Requiem

Tom Service dissects Mozart's final, unfinished masterpiece.

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Collage, writ large: Berio's Sinfonia

Tom Service explores Luciano Berio's 1968 Sinfonia for orchestra and 8 amplified voices.

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Bluebeard's Castle: Enter at Your Peril

Tom Service intrepidly explores Bluebeard's Castle, Bartok's one-act symbolist opera.

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Here Comes the Bride

Tom Service with a guide to music written for and performed at weddings.

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Stravinsky, the puppet master: Petrushka

Tom Service delves into the extraordinary world of Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka.

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Wild Isles: Wild Music

Tom Service explores musical evocations of wilderness and the natural world.

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Once upon a time... The Fairy-tale Operas of Judith Weir

Tom Service delves into the deep (and often dark) worlds of Judith Weir's dramatic works.

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All the King's Music

Tom Service assesses the history of the post of master of the king's (or queen's) music.

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Secret Music: Byrd's Masses

How did William Byrd come to compose three mass settings when celebrating mass was banned?

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Ravel's Bolero: A Piece without Music?

Tom Service explores Maurice Ravel's Bolero.

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Artificial intelligence and music

Tom Service programmes himself into the matrix of musical artificial intelligence.

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Surround Sound: Tallis's Spem in alium

Tom Service surrounds himself in Tallis's 40-part Renaissance masterpiece.

• 28 mins

All American Ives?

What links baseball, life insurance and American art music? Charles Ives does!

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What's on the programme?

Tom Service explores the art of concert programming.

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What's the Point of Symphonies?

What exactly is a symphony, and are they just a thing of classical music's past?

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Gloria!

Tom Service immerses himself in the joyous world of Poulenc's Gloria.

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Strange Tuning

An odyssey through the musical universe, presented by Tom Service.

• 30 mins

The Ethereal

Tom Service explores the ethereal in music.

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Unripe Cherries: Brahms's Symphony No 4

Tom explores one of the most popular works of all time, Brahms's Symphony No 4 in E minor.

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