Tom Service explores the endless potential of musical variations on a theme. On the one hand it's the simplest of all musical ideas - take a basic tune and play around with it - and yet on the other, it's a deeply profound reflection of life, as small sequences of musical DNA provide the building blocks for structures of ever increasing complexity.
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Rethink music with The Listening Service. Tom Service presents a journey of imagination and insight, exploring how music works
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Folge vom 18.07.2021Themes and Variations
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Folge vom 27.06.2021Money Makes the Music Go RoundWhat have the Pet Shop Boys and Prokofiev got in common? How can you sing about not wanting money at the same time as making it? What does it feel like to burn a million pounds? Tom Service explores how our transactional economy underpins centuries of music making from Notre-Dame’s patronage of the polyphonic Perotin, to Beethoven writing a symphony for £100 and Wagner losing over a million on the premiere of his operatic masterpiece The Ring cycle.Our Listening Service witness today is macroeconomist, fund manager and sometime cellist Felix Martin, who has written the unauthorised biography of money.Producer: Ruth Thomson
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Folge vom 13.06.2021How to listen to... Gilbert and SullivanTom Service immerses himself in the topsy-turvy world of Gilbert and Sullivan, and finds things are seldom what they seem...With Derek Clark of Scottish Opera and pianist and composer Richard Sisson.
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Folge vom 06.06.2021Playing Second Fiddle (and Horn and Trumpet...)What's it like to play second fiddle in an orchestra? Or to sit beside the first horn or trumpet as they garner the limelight with their flashy solos and are stood up for a bow by the conductor at the end of the concert? Are orchestral seconds a tribe of self-effacing, embittered Eeyore-ish wannabees, or does it involve a set of skills and a personality just as musically vital as their more lauded colleagues?Tom Service seeks answers with the help of London Symphony Orchestra principal second violin David Alberman, second trumpet with English National Opera and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Will O'Sullivan and the Berlin Philharmonic's second horn, Sarah Willis. David Papp (producer)