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  1. International Women’s Day Concert 2018 (2018)

    aka: BBC Concert Orchestra and Jane Glover: International Women’s Day Concert

    Subject
    Music; Women’s studies

    A group of academics spent 12 months tracking down the lost music of five forgotten women composers, who range from an 18th-century Viennese child prodigy to an award-winning African-American symphonist. All...

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  2. George Frederic Handel (2018)

    Subject
    Music

    Podcast series. Ed Seckerson is joined by countertenor Lestyn Davies to discuss Handel, the German- born composer whose prolific portfolio of operas and hits such as ‘Water Music’ and ‘Messiah’ won...

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  3. Benjamin Britten (2018)

    Subject
    Music

    Podcast series. Baritone and composer Roderick Williams discusses Benjamin Britten, a complex and often contradictory character, and one of the 20th century’s greatest opera composers. This is the second...

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  4. Gustav Mahler (2018)

    Subject
    Music

    Podcast series. Conductor and pianist Sir Antonio Pappano discusses Gustav Mahler, whose extreme, powerful and raw symphonic writing stretches both conductors and orchestras to their limits. This is the...

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  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2018)

    Subject
    Music

    Podcast series. Host Edward Seckerson is joined by violinist, composer and Australian Chamber Orchestra artistic director Richard Tognetti to discuss the genius, larger than life character, and prodigious...

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  6. Jean Sibelius (2018)

    Subject
    Music

    Podcast series. Host Edward Seckerson is joined by BBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Sakari Oramo to discuss his fellow countryman Jean Sibelius, and the themes of nature and Finnish national identity woven...

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  7. Secrets of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, The (2016)

    Subject
    Music

    Ian Hislop and John Eliot Gardiner present a documentary about the circumstances behind the writing of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. [89 minutes]

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  8. In Search of Haydn (2012)

    Director
    Phil Grabsky
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 102 minutes), £15.99

    A portrait of the life and work of Franz Joseph Haydn. Performers such as Gianandrea Noseda, Sir Roger Norrington, Frans Bruggen, Ronald Brautigam, Emanuel Ax, and Christophe Rousset play and then explain...

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  9. Discovering Tchaikovsky (2007 Television, Video)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £29.99

    Conductor Charles Hazlewood explores two of Tchaikovsky’s composer’s key works, The Fantasy Overture from Romeo and Juliet and the Sixth Symphony, The Pathetique. In the first programme he examines the...

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