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Death and Venice - Part 3 - Nostalgia and Decay, Jazz and Jets
The events of 1797 which inspired Wordsworth's famous sonnet on the Extinction of the Venetian Republic also triggered the Romantic imagination for next century and a half. The nostalgia for the shade… Read more Audio
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Death and Venice - Part 2 - From Birth to Glory
Little music survives from the first eight hundred years of Venice's glorious history. Much of the great output of its decadence, the product of the last two centuries of the Republic, the… Read more Audio
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Death and Venice - Part 1 - Power, Pleasure and Mortality
The name Venezia triggers a whole series of images and sound-bites of memory or anticipation. Canals, gondolas, towering marble and intricate windows, pigeons and cafes, lapping waters and sonorous… Read more Audio
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Appointment - Peter Maxwell Davies at 70
James Gardner surveys the music of Peter Maxwell Davies and interviews the composer on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 2004. Read more Audio
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Nietzsche
Barry Empson explores the life and work of the controversial German philosopher. Audio
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Violet Gordon Woodhouse
Violet Gordon Woodhouse (1872-1948) was a British harpsichordist and clavichordist, the first ever to make a harpsichord recording. In this programme, produced in 1998, John Mansfield Thomson looks at… Read more Audio
