The Listening Service

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?
Mar 31, 2024 – 28:34
Needle Drop: the power of classical music in film
Mar 10, 2024 – 28:29
Impassioned argument: Elizabeth Maconchy's string quartets
Mar 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 – 29:03
Resolutions
Dec 31, 2023 – 29:03
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 – 29:04
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!
Sep 17, 2023 – 29:03
What's the Point of Symphonies?
Sep 10, 2023 – 29:03
Musical Time Travel: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Vaughan Williams
Jul 26, 2023 – 29:15
What's on the programme?
Jul 9, 2023 – 29:10
Secret Music: Byrd's Masses
Jul 2, 2023 – 29:24
All American Ives?
Jun 25, 2023 – 29:02
Surround Sound: Tallis's Spem in alium
Jun 18, 2023 – 28:57
Artificial intelligence and music
Jun 4, 2023 – 29:21
Ravel's Bolero: A Piece without Music?
May 28, 2023 – 29:08
All the King's Music
May 7, 2023 – 29:14
Once upon a time... The Fairy-tale Operas of Judith Weir
Apr 23, 2023 – 29:10
Wild Isles: Wild Music
Apr 9, 2023 – 29:23
Stravinsky, the puppet master: Petrushka
Mar 26, 2023 – 29:03
Here Comes the Bride
Mar 19, 2023 – 29:00
Bluebeard's Castle: Enter at Your Peril
Mar 12, 2023 – 29:04
Collage, writ large: Berio's Sinfonia
Mar 5, 2023 – 29:26
Mystery, rumour and deception: Mozart's Requiem
Feb 19, 2023 – 29:04
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 – 29:15
David Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion
Jan 15, 2023 – 29:06
Also Sprach Zarathustra: Strauss’s New Dawn
Jan 1, 2023 – 29:02
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 – 29:15
Kurt Weill and The Threepenny Opera
Nov 20, 2022 – 29:04
Steve Reich's Different Trains: Minimalism and Memory
Nov 6, 2022 – 29:04
The Hebrides Overture: Mendelssohn's melodious cave
Oct 23, 2022 – 29:07
Musical Ecstasy
Oct 2, 2022 – 29:03
Stormy Weather
Sep 25, 2022 – 29:02
The Enchantment of Chant
Sep 18, 2022 – 29:03
Abracadabra
Sep 11, 2022 – 28:58
TV Themes
Jul 14, 2022 – 28:30
The Music of Sound
Jun 26, 2022 – 29:15
What's the point of cadenzas?
Jun 12, 2022 – 28:53