What's the point of Listening?
Isn’t it great to be able to listen to so much music, to be able to search, scroll and find anything you want? Or is it? Tom Service reflects on how we listen in the digital age.
Isn’t it great to be able to listen to so much music, to be able to search and scroll and find anything you want…? Or to have tracks suggested for you without even thinking about it…? Or is it? Perhaps you miss the days when you had to save up to buy a recording, and you loved it so much you listened over and over again. Or you waited for something to be played on the radio, knowing it might be the only chance you’d have to hear it.
Tom Service explores how we listen today in the digital age and reflects on the pieces of music that changed his life when he heard them first, and then really listened to them, again and again.
Producer: Ruth Thomson
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quartet in D major K.499 (Hoffmeister) for strings: I. Allegretto
Performer: Chilingirian String Quartet.- CRD Records.
- 708093342723.
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony no. 4 in E flat major (Romantic)
Conductor: Eugen Jochum. Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker.- DG.
- 4779167.
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Richard Wagner
Parsifal, Act I: Prelude
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker.- DG.
- 00028941334725.
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James McMillan
Veni, veni, Emmanuel - concerto for percussion and orchestra
Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jukkaâ€Pekka Saraste.- RCA.
- G010001846447Z.
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Olivier Messiaen
Turangalila-symphonie: No. 5 - Joie du sang des etoiles
Conductor: Gustavo Gimeno. Performer: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.- Harmonia Mundi.
- HMM905336.
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Carl Stamitz
Clarinet Concerto No 4 in B flat major: I. Allegro
Performer: Paul Meyer. Orchestra: Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester. Conductor: Johannes Schlaefli.- CPO.
- 555053-2.
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Pierre Boulez
Sonata no. 2 for piano
Performer: Maurizio Pollini.- DG.
- 4779185.
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Darius Milhaud
Le carnaval d'Aix, Op. 83b: VI. Corviello
Performer: Jack Gibbons. Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp. Conductor: Ronald Corp.- Hyperion.
- CDH55168.
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Arnold Bax
The Garden of Fand - symphonic poem
Conductor: Bryden Thomson. Performer: Ulster Orchestra.- CHANDOS.
- 1605270.
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Maurice Ravel
Rapsodie espagnole vers. for orchestra: IV. Feria
Conductor: Seiji Ozawa. Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra.- DG.
- 439 342-2.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony no. 29 in A major K.201: I. Allegro Moderato
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker.- DG.
- 00028948358922.
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony no. 3 in D minor: I. Gemassigt, mehr bewegt, misterioso
Conductor: Eugen Jochum. Performer: Staatskapelle Dresden.- WARNER CLASSICS.
- 190295270230.
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Richard Wagner
Parsifal, Act 1; Vom Bade kehrt der Konig heim (Transformation scene)
Singer: Peter Hofmann. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
- 00028941334725T.
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Thomas Adès
Asyla for orchestra
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.- Warner Classics.
- 5099950340453.
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Richard Wagner
Parsifal, Act I: Prelude
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker.- DG.
- 00028941334725.
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony no. 4 in E flat major (Romantic): III. Scherzo and trio
Conductor: Eugen Jochum. Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker.- DG.
- 4779167.
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Kaija Saariaho
Innocence
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Choir: Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Susanna Mälkki. -
Philip Glass
Mad rush for piano/organ
Performer: Philip Glass.- CBS.
- MK45576.
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony no. 3 in D minor: I. 1st movement; Gemassigt, mehr bewegt, misterioso
Conductor: Eugen Jochum. Performer: Staatskapelle Dresden.- WARNER CLASSICS.
- 190295270230.
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Philip Glass
Mad rush for piano/organ
Performer: Philip Glass.- CBS.
- MK45576.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony no. 29 in A major K.201: I. Allegro Moderato
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker.- DG.
- 00028948358922.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No. 15 in A Major, Op.141: I. Allegretto
Conductor: Andris Nelsons. Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra.- DG.
- 4860546.
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Pauline Oliveros
Suiren
Performer: Pauline Oliveros. Performer: Panaiotis. Performer: Stuart Dempster.- New Albion.
- NA022CD.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony no. 29 in A major K.201: I. Allegro Moderato
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker.- DG.
- 00028948358922.
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