Rethink music with The Listening Service. Tom Service presents a journey of imagination and insight, exploring how music works
What's the point of Listening?
March 31, 2024
28:34
Needle Drop: the power of classical music in film
March 10, 2024
28:29
Impassioned argument: Elizabeth Maconchy's string quartets
March 3, 2024
28:40
Songs of the Moon
Feb. 25, 2024
28:28
'Pathétique'
Feb. 5, 2024
28:35
Turangalila!
Jan. 21, 2024
29:03
Jumping Fleas: the rise and rise of the Ukulele
Jan. 16, 2024
Resolutions
Dec. 31, 2023
New York, New York!
Dec. 11, 2023
29:14
The Trombone Section
Nov. 26, 2023
29:04
The Old Testament of Music
Nov. 19, 2023
29:02
In it to win it
Nov. 5, 2023
29:18
Hitting the High Notes
Oct. 29, 2023
Unripe Cherries: Brahms's Symphony No 4
Oct. 22, 2023
29:06
The Ethereal
Oct. 8, 2023
29:31
Strange Tuning
Oct. 1, 2023
30:03
Gloria!
Sept. 17, 2023
What's the Point of Symphonies?
Sept. 10, 2023
Musical Time Travel: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Vaughan Williams
July 26, 2023
29:15
What's on the programme?
July 9, 2023
29:10
Secret Music: Byrd's Masses
July 2, 2023
29:24
All American Ives?
June 25, 2023
Surround Sound: Tallis's Spem in alium
June 18, 2023
28:57
Artificial intelligence and music
June 4, 2023
29:21
Ravel's Bolero: A Piece without Music?
May 28, 2023
29:08
All the King's Music
May 7, 2023
Once upon a time... The Fairy-tale Operas of Judith Weir
April 23, 2023
Wild Isles: Wild Music
April 9, 2023
29:23
Stravinsky, the puppet master: Petrushka
March 26, 2023
Here Comes the Bride
March 19, 2023
29:00
Bluebeard's Castle: Enter at Your Peril
March 12, 2023
Collage, writ large: Berio's Sinfonia
March 5, 2023
29:26
Mystery, rumour and deception: Mozart's Requiem
Feb. 19, 2023
Repetition
Feb. 9, 2023
28:26
Symphonic Steampunk: Saint-Saëns's Organ Symphony
Feb. 5, 2023
29:05
On the March: Pomp, Circumstance and Dam Busters
Jan. 22, 2023
David Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion
Jan. 15, 2023
Also Sprach Zarathustra: Strauss’s New Dawn
Jan. 1, 2023
Britten's Choral Christmas
Dec. 11, 2022
29:13
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune: Half Man, Half Myth, All Debussy
Dec. 4, 2022
Kurt Weill and The Threepenny Opera
Nov. 20, 2022
Steve Reich's Different Trains: Minimalism and Memory
Nov. 6, 2022
The Hebrides Overture: Mendelssohn's melodious cave
Oct. 23, 2022
29:07
Musical Ecstasy
Oct. 2, 2022
Stormy Weather
Sept. 25, 2022
The Enchantment of Chant
Sept. 18, 2022
Abracadabra
Sept. 11, 2022
28:58
TV Themes
July 14, 2022
28:30
The Music of Sound
June 26, 2022
What's the point of cadenzas?
June 12, 2022
28:53
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