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The story of the love affair between musicians Margaret Leng Tan and James Graseck.
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Pianist David Owen Norris follows Liszt on his concert tours as a virtuoso pianist.
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Louis de Bernieres visits the museum devoted to Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia.
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Bonnie Greer recalls the Fisk Singers, a groundbreaking 19th-century British black choir.
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Nigel Simeone tells the story of classical music activity in Nazi-occupied Paris.
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Fiona Talkington presents an insight into the world of the 18th-century amateur musician.
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Peggy Reynolds looks at the life and career of composer Ethel Smyth.
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Piers Lane explores the life and music of French pianist/composer Charles Valentin Alkan.
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In 1848 Chopin visited Scotland. Janice Galloway and Iwo Zaluski follow his footsteps.
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Tom Service looks at the dark beauty of Ravel's masterpiece La valse.
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Lowri Blake with a programme about Debussy's work during the summer of 1912.
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Tristram Hunt explores the musical responses to the death of Prince Henry, son of James I.
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Andrew McGregor introduces Christmas concerts from radio stations in Europe.
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Andrew McGregor concludes the evening of Christmas concerts from Europe and Canada.
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Sarah Walker retraces French composer Erik Satie's daily walk across Paris.
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Martin Handley explores the importance of Italian music publishing firm Casa Ricordi.
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Lowri Blake discusses the revival of the music of Louise Heritte-Viardot and Mel Bonis.
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Normal Lebrecht with recordings by classical artists that look ill-advised in hindsight.
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Nigel Kennedy pays tribute to the great improvising violinist Stephane Grappelli.
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Jeremy Summerly explores Thomas Attwood's composition lessons with Mozart.
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Rob Cowan explores the attraction of composers to the poetry of Walt Whitman.
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Alyn Shipton on Dryden and Purcell's collaboration on the semi-opera King Arthur.
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Kathryn Stott tells the story of how Michael Tippett's Robin Hood came to be written.
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Christopher Cook tells the story of the player-piano industry.
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Peggy Reynolds explores the life and music of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin.
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Stephen Johnson explores Proms founder Henry Wood's collection of concert programmes.
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Daniel Hope explores the history of the violin.
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Catherine Bott uncovers the story of radical composer Nicola Vicentino.
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Robert Worby examine the Art of Noises, an offshoot of the Italian Futurism movement.
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Anne Sebba tells the story of celebrated concert pianist Harriet Cohen.
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Lucy Parham on how literature inspired Schumann to write some of his great piano cycles.
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Katie Derham examines Tolstoy's fraught relationship with music and musicians.
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Lewis Foreman talks to Richard Itter, the pioneer behind British record label Lyrita.
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Tom Robinson tells the story of German singer Fritz Wunderlich.
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Miranda Hinkley looks back on the 60-year career of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis.
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Ian Bradley explores music composed in European spa towns such as Baden-Baden in Germany.
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Susan Rutherford explores the history of opera outside London.
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Ivan Hewett explores the musical enigma of the conductor Carlos Kleiber.
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Iain Burnside traces the life and work of lieder writer Hugo Wolf.
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Journalist Martin Kettle asks why, so often in opera, the soprano meets a gruesome end.