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What Is....

Classical music deconstructed and explained

World Service,4 episodes

Episodes

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The Solo
Solos, their relationship with their accompaniment, and the resulting whole
03 Feb 1995,8 mins
The Quartet
What are the relationships between the instruments in a string quartet?
10 Feb 1995,8 mins
Cadenzas
When the rest of the players in the ensemble stop, and the soloist plays a solo for a bit
10 Mar 1995,8 mins
Oratorios
Large-scale musical compositions for solo voices. But are any of them genuinely spiritual?
23 Mar 1995,7 mins