How Pop Songs Work
Jan 09, 2008Conductor Charles Hazlewood hosts a celebration of the magic of pop music and explores the skill and musical dexterity that goes into writing, performing and producing hit records.
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Tubular Bells: The Mike Oldfield Story
Oct 13, 2013Documentary about the musician Mike Oldfield, whose 1973 album Tubular Bells launched the Virgin record label and became the biggest selling instrumental album of all time.
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Death Songbook
Mar 06, 2021Brett Anderson, Charles Hazlewood, and Paraorchestra are joined by guest vocalist Nadine Shah in Death Songbook, a one-off special performance of music by icons such as Echo and the Bunnymen, Skeeter Davis, Japan, David Bowie/Jacques Brel, and Suede. An exquisite songbook featuring delicate new versions of songs about death; the death of love and of loss, and transcendence.
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Boulez at 80
Nov 12, 2005Pierre Boulez conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a special concert from the Barbican, as part of the composer's 80th birthday celebrations. The programme contains two compositions by Debussy; Jeux and Trois ballades de Villon, as well as Daphnis et Chloé by Ravel, featuring soprano Elizabeth Atherton as soloist.Presenter Charles Hazlewood interviews Boulez and discusses the concert with guest Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Music
The Birth Of British Music
May 30, 2009Series in which conductor Charles Hazlewood explores the lives, times and music of great composers.
Documentary
Classical Star
Nov 13, 2007
Discovering Tchaikovsky
Feb 03, 2007Conductor Charles Hazlewood journeys to Russia in search of clues to uncover secrets to the enigmatic and masterful composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, whose life has been heavily shrouded in mystery.
Documentary
Come Clog Dancing: Treasures of English Folk Dance
Nov 12, 2010Presenter Charles Hazlewood stages a 140-person flashmob clog dance and explores the history of this folk dance that originated in the collieries and pit villages of the north east of England in the 19th century.
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The Culture Show
Oct 03, 2012A weekly BBC Two magazine programme focusing on the best of the week's arts and culture news, covering books, art, film, architecture and more.
News
Reinventing the Orchestra with Charles Hazlewood
Jul 11, 2022Charles Hazlewood examines how to build an orchestra for the 21st century as he tears down dated perceptions of the orchestra and explores six aspects of what makes an ensemble fit for purpose in the modern era.
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