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Iain Burnside

Iain Burnside presents a programme of music interspersed with intelligent comment

  1. 2 days left to listen
    Iain asks how a composer decides that his career has started. Music includes Beethoven.
  2. Iain is joined by guests including Nicholas Hytner and Douglas Boyd.
  3. Iain takes a musical tour of the Baltic, with stops in Estonia, Lithuania and Finland.
  4. Iain explores love and loss, with musical examples from Brahms, Britten and Alma Mahler.
  5. Iain explores the point where heaven and earth meet in works by Beethoven and Stravinsky.
  6. Mary explores swansongs, posthumous discoveries and unfinished sketches.
  7. Mary King sits in for Iain Burnside and considers how composers have depicted craft.
  8. Iain explores Australian music, from ancient songlines to Percy Grainger.
  9. Iain presents music about war, by Stravinsky, Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Milhaud.
  10. Iain and CBSO chief executive Stephen Maddock consider Birmingham's musical tradition.

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