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Innovation in the Ninth
BBC presenter Suzy Klein discusses the constant innovation throughout Beethoven's Ninth.
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A new kind of composer
BBC presenter Suzy Klein talks about how Beethoven wanted complete control over how his pieces were conducted.
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Name the Composer Quiz! - #10 Do you know your classical composers?
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The question of pitch
Sir John Eliot Gardiner talks on how changing the pitch of Beethoven's Ninth can really help the piece.
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Fanny Mendelssohn - A Life of Music
A look at the life and works of composer Fanny Mendelssohn.
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Name the Composer Quiz! #19 Do you know your classical composers
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A critical mistake?
Sir John Eliot Gardiner discusses the idea that the tempo mark at the beginning of the Turkish March in Beethoven's Ninth was a mistake and what Jonathan Del Mar thinks should have been written instead.
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Name the Composer Quiz! #28 Do you know your classical composers
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To breaking point
Sir John Eliot Gardiner talks on why he prefers the use of period instrument orchestras for Beethoven over modern symphony orchestras.
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Achievements
Pianist Stephen Hough talks about why he considers Liszt to be the greatest musician of the 19th Century, how he created the modern style of playing and how he was influenced by Czerny and Mendelssohn.
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Name the Composer Quiz! #23 Do you know your classical composers
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The score as a way into the music
Journalist Paul Morley talks about how the score was his way into understanding Beethoven's music.
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Name the Composer Quiz! #26 Do you know your classical composers
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Name the Composer Quiz! - #12 Do you know your classical composers?
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Name the Composer Quiz! #20 Do you know your classical composers
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Liberation in the Ninth
Journalist Paul Morley talks about the feeling of craving for freedom that you hear within Beethoven's Ninth and how this compares to contemporary pop music.
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Music History - That Time Mozart Stole Music From The Pope
On a trip to Rome, Mozart and his father go see the Tenebrae service at the Sistine chapel to hear the Miserere. Then things get complicated.
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Name the Composer Quiz! - #11 Do you know your classical composers?
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Name the Composer Quiz! - #9 Do you know your classical composers?
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Name the Composer Quiz! - #6 Do you know your classical composers?
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Name the Composer Quiz! #16 Do you know your classical composers
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