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The Oscar Project Podcast3.43-Filmmaker Interview with Ida Melum and Laura Jayne TunbridgeSend us a textIn today's episode, I interview Ida Melum and Laura Jayne Tunbridge, the director and writer of the animated short film "Ovary-Acting," a look at the complex decision of whether or not to have children facing many people in the world today.Listen to hear about the personal inspiration for the story, the importance of finding humor even in the darkest moment in life, and the ambitious musical number that pops up in the middle of the film that has to be seen and heard to be believed!Books mentioned...
2025-05-2727 min
Twenty Thousand HertzThe Deaf Composer: How Beethoven wrote music he couldn’t hearWhat happens when one of history’s greatest composers begins to lose the very sense he relies on most? In this episode, we explore how Ludwig van Beethoven continued to create groundbreaking music even as his world fell into silence. Along the way, we uncover the myths, inventions, and raw determination that fueled Beethoven’s defiant creativity, and hear how his lifelong struggles are reflected in his music. Featuring musicologist Laura Tunbridge, author of Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces.
Enter the “Sound Off” Story Contest at 20k.org/soundoff. Submissions close on May 7th, 2025.
2025-04-3028 min
Band BFFsTunbridge MeadowsIn this episode of Band BFFs, we dive into Tunbridge Meadows by Mark Williams, a beautifully lyrical grade 1 piece with both expressive and technical challenges. With its contrasting 3/4 and 2/4 sections, shifting articulations, and moments of exposed phrasing, this piece pushes young musicians to develop strong pulse control and mature musicality. We break down key teaching strategies for articulation, balance, and phrasing to help bring this elegant composition to life.
2025-03-2415 min
Record Review PodcastClara Schumann's liederLaura Tunbridge joins Andrew to discuss lieder by Clara Schumann in Building a Library.
2025-03-1051 min
The True Crime Enthusiast PodcastThe Beast Of Farley MountThe Hampshire beauty spot of Farley Mount Country Park, located near the city of Winchester, is a popular destination in daylight hours for families, joggers and dog walkers, whilst of the evening, it takes on a different kind of visitor - couples, and the voyeuristic who enjoy watching these for their own gratification. During the 1990's, it was also the scene of several disturbing incidents and attacks by an offender who to this day, remains at large, having never faced justice.Or did he?The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and...
2024-12-101h 12
10-Minute TalksSchubert’s Die Forelle: how a classical music piece changes over timeClassical music is often wrongly considered to be unaffected by political and social change. Exploring Franz Schubert’s ‘Die Forelle’, Laura Tunbridge FBA considers the cultural history of a song and the importance of a piece of music changing over time – both in sound and meaning. Speaker: Professor Laura Tunbridge FBA, Professor of Music, University of Oxford This podcast is for informative and educational purposes.Music included in this podcast: 02:28 - 'Die Forelle', performed as part of the Oxford International Song Festival www.oxfordsong.org by Irish soprano Ailish Tynan and pianist Iain Burnsi...
2024-11-2911 min
Two Girls One Book - Book Club Podcast98. Short Stories Edition - Wild Eyes, The Safekeep, Big Swiss, Creation Lake and a whole host of other varied readsSend us a textToday's mammoth podcast is fairly varied in content with something for everyone - non fiction, Booker Prize nominees and small town romance aplenty!! Here's what we talked about:How To Leave A Group Chat - Louise GuiseThe Search - John Henry Phillips Beethoven - Laura TunbridgeThe Most of Nora Ephron - Nora EphronStone Yard Devotional - Charlotte WoodBig Swiss - Jen BeaginCreation Lake - Rachel KushnerWhat Lies Between Us - John M...
2024-10-011h 09Record Review PodcastSchumann's Cello ConcertoLaura Tunbridge chooses her favourite recording of Schumann's Cello Concerto
2024-01-2247 min
SensuAlchemy School Podcast with Kate Leiper32. Remembering yourself through play, sensuality and Burlesque with Laura Jane FoleyWhen was the last time you let yourself play, dress up, and express your full sensual self freely and without judgment? I believe that many of us are so hungry for these kinds of experiences… particularly if we’ve become disconnected from parts of ourselves that along the way, we decided were frivolous, silly, too much or over indulgent.
Today on the podcast, I have such a joyful conversation to share with you. I sat down with the gorgeously sensual and creative Laura Jane Foley and she was every bit as captivating as she is on Instagram!
2023-09-1148 min
Sound ExpertiseRetelling Beethoven's Story with Laura TunbridgeThere are approximately one bajillion biographies of Beethoven: do we need really another one? In fact, we do, because Laura Tunbridge has written an engrossing, provocative, and genuinely fresh book about Beethoven's life and times. A conversation about what it means to write about one of the most well-trodden composers in music history, and the rich new perspectives that Dr. Tunbridge brings to our understanding of Beethoven.Laura Tunbridge is Professor of Music and Henfrey Fellow and Tutor at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford.Show notes and more over at soundexpertise.org!...
2023-06-2039 min
Iris PodcastIris Prize Podcast S2: - Laura Tunbridge (Dragged Up)Following a teenager who uses Drag to show her family who she really is, ‘Dragged Up’ was written and directed by Laura Jayne Tunbridge. Laura explains how she didn’t have a queer community around her growing up, and that her experience with being closeted helped to inspire many of the ideas in her film.
Primarily a screenwriter, Laura’s experience at Yale University helped to give her the freedom to think about her own sexuality, and make films such as ‘Dragged Up’, which she hopes to make feature-length one day.
To listen to the episode - https://anchor.fm/iris-prize-p...
2022-07-0450 minRecord Review PodcastBeethoven's String Quartet in F, Op. 18 No. 1Laura Tunbridge recommends her favourite recording of Beethoven's String Quartet in F, Op 18 No 1.In Vienna at the end of the 18th century, Beethoven was in his late 20s, the supreme keyboard composer-improviser of his day. With dogged determination and a degree of circumspection he began picking off various genres over which the shadows of the late Mozart and the very much alive Haydn loomed large. With piano sonatas, piano trios and string trios under his belt, it took two laborious years to complete the Op 18 set of six string quartets. The first of the set was...
2022-05-0948 min
Music in 2FlavorsEpisodio Master 188 Dominique Molina Canto Chile FolclorEmpiezo este episodio con una especie de nota en cuanto a un hilo en mi cuenta de Twitter personal @licjaimearturo. Este hilo es producto de mis observaciones y confirmaciones en la lectura del libro de Laura Tunbridge de Beethoven, A Life in Nine Pieces. Es mi opinión personal en cuanto a los críticos de las artes, en todas sus manifestaciones, y como ellos, en su absoluta soberbia, quieren determinar lo que es arte y aceptable. No es una critica sino un juicio personal. No intento convencer a nadie con mi opinión, pero expresar cuanto daño estos merc...
2022-04-061h 14
One Symphony with Devin Patrick HughesLaura Tunbridge Pieces Together Beethoven’s LifeAuthor and scholar Laura Tunbridge and conductor Devin Patrick Hughes discuss the historical Beethoven in rehearsals, as the entrepreneur, the conductor, the early adopter of technologies, the family man, his controversial metronome markings, and the authenticity behind historically informed performance practice. Tunbridge is a Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, UK and the author of books about Robert Schumann, art-song, and Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces, and is currently working on a book about string quartets.
The book is Laura Tunbridge’s Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces, published by Yale University Press...
2022-03-2947 min
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation PodcastThe Anthony Burgess Lecture 2021: Beethoven - A Life in Nine Pieces by Laura TunbridgeLaura Tunbridge gave the tenth annual Anthony Burgess Lecture at the Engine House on 14 October, exploring Beethoven's life and work and discussing Anthony Burgess's lifelong engagement with both.Laura is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and author of the award-winning biography, Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces. Beethoven's life is shrouded in myths, and her hugely readable and compelling study questions the usual image of him as an eccentric genius shaking his fist at heaven. Her overview of Beethoven’s life reveals his oddly modern talent for self-promotion, how he was influenced by factors from European wars to...
2021-10-2144 min
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesThe string quartet takes residence: class, community, curriculaKeynote lecture in the Diversity and the British String Quartet Symposium, held on 14th June 2021. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Lecture by Professor Laura Tunbridge (University of Oxford)
Chair: Dr Wiebke Thormählen (Royal College of Music)
We will hear from Beethoven and string quartet expert Prof Laura Tunbridge on the history of performing quartets working in UK universities.
2021-09-021h 25TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesThe string quartet takes residence: class, community, curriculaKeynote lecture in the Diversity and the British String Quartet Symposium, held on 14th June 2021. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Lecture by Professor Laura Tunbridge (University of Oxford)
Chair: Dr Wiebke Thormählen (Royal College of Music)
We will hear from Beethoven and string quartet expert Prof Laura Tunbridge on the history of performing quartets working in UK universities.
2021-09-021h 25
Are We Nearly There Yet?Being convinced that a course of action is the right one is to question it and question a bit more! Tom Greatrex, CEO, Nuclear Industry Association (NIA)Tom Greatex is a Chief Executive of the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA).
Tom was born in Ashford in Kent and grew up in Tunbridge Wells, attending a local grammar school. During his time at school, he learnt to question and challenge actions and has continued to so throughout his career.
Tom now lives in in Oxfordshire near Culham and is married to Laura, with twin daughters Katie and Jessica.
Tom went to university at London School of Economics (LSE) where he studied politics.
Formerly MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, Tom...
2021-04-2144 min
kmfmGarry and Laura have been chatting to Andrew Bateup from Tunbridge Wells about working with Olly Murs on The Voice - 02/03/21
2021-03-0201 min
kmfmGarry and Laura have been chatting to Andrew Bateup from Tunbridge Wells ahead of his appearance on The Voice - 29/01/21
2021-01-2901 min
ARTIDOTEBeethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces with Laura TunbridgeIf you're looking where to start listening classical music, this is a place. Professor Laura Tunbridge reveals the personality of Beethoven through the composer's nine masterpieces. However, if you're already familiar with Beethoven, Laura's research will reveal a side of Beethoven you might not have heard before.
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2021-01-061h 04
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2020-12-087h 22
Unleash the Power of Your Imagination With Full AudiobookBeethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces Audiobook by Laura TunbridgeListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 465719
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Length: 07:22:17
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Release date: 12-08-20
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment, History & Culture
Summary:
A major new biography published for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, offering a fresh, human portrayal.
The iconic image of Beethoven is of him as a lone genius: hair wild, fists clenched, and brow furrowed. Beethoven may well have shaped the music of the future, but he was also a product of his time...
2020-12-087h 22
The TLS PodcastBeethoven at 250This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Paul Griffiths, the author most recently of the novel Mr Beethoven, to discuss the heroic oeuvre of the great composer, 250 years after his birth; Joseph Farrell takes us through the life and work of Gianni Rodari, a kind of Italian George Orwell transplanted to Neverland.Selected books:Beethoven's Conversation Books, translated and edited by Theodore AlbrechtBeethoven's Lives by Lewis LockwoodBeethoven: A Life by Jan CaeyersBeethoven: A life in nine pieces, by Laura Tunbridge– rea...
2020-12-0348 min
Presto Music Classical PodcastBeethoven in Nine Pieces with Laura TunbridgeThis week I am joined by Professor Laura Tunbridge, whose book Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces (published earlier this year by Viking Books) offers new perspectives on the man, the music and early nineteenth-century Vienna in this, the year of his 250th anniversary. Laura guides us through the nine works that she chose for the book, offering new perspectives on some of the choices made by this complicated genius. www.prestomusic.com/classicalYou can buy Laura's book here:Beethoven: A Life in Nine PiecesLaura Tunbridgehttps://www.p...
2020-10-2830 min
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Brought to you by Penguin. Featuring integrated music and full orchestra recordings. Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as an eccentric genius shaking his fist at heaven. Beethoven by Oxford professor...
2020-07-167h 22Listen To The Unforgettable Full Audiobook Experience!Beethoven: A Life In Nine Pieces by Laura TunbridgePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/423735to listen full audiobooks.
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Author: Laura Tunbridge
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Brought to you by Penguin. Featuring integrated music and full orchestra recordings. Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as an eccentric genius shaking his fist at heaven. Beethoven by Oxford professor...
2020-07-167h 22
Enjoy Amazing Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureBeethoven: A Life In Nine Pieces by Laura TunbridgePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/423735 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beethoven: A Life In Nine Pieces Author: Laura Tunbridge Narrator: Laura Tunbridge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 16, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Featuring integrated music and full orchestra recordings. Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as an eccentric genius shaking his fist at heaven. Beethoven by Oxford...
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Brought to you by Penguin.
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Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as an eccentric genius shaking his fist at heaven.
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2020-07-167h 22
Access Unmissable Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & EntertainmentBeethoven: A Life In Nine Pieces by Laura TunbridgePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/423735 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beethoven: A Life In Nine Pieces Author: Laura Tunbridge Narrator: Laura Tunbridge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: July 16, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Featuring integrated music and full orchestra recordings. Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as an eccentric genius shaking his fist at heaven. Beethoven by Oxford...
2020-07-1605 minAccess Unmissable Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & EntertainmentBeethoven: A Life In Nine Pieces by Laura TunbridgePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/423735to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Beethoven: A Life In Nine Pieces
Author: Laura Tunbridge
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Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Release date: July 16, 2020
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Genres: Arts & Entertainment
Publisher's Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin. Featuring integrated music and full orchestra recordings. Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as an eccentric genius shaking his fist at heaven. Beethoven by Oxford professor...
2020-07-167h 22
Composer of the WeekBeethoven Unleashed: Return to FormDonald Macleod explores the enduring power, pathos and innovation of Beethoven’s late string quartets with guests Laura Tunbridge and Edward Dusinberre.Just two years before he died, Beethoven returned to an old treasured form, the string quartet. The five quartets he ended up writing would come to be his final major works, and would change the paradigm beyond recognition. Though dismissed by audiences in their day, their composition is now considered a pivotal moment not only in Beethoven’s life, but in the history of classical music. Donald is joined by musicologist Laura Tunbridge, and violinist Edwa...
2020-06-051h 34
The Cinematologists PodcastThe Cinematic VoiceThe voice in cinema is a phenomenon that is in many ways taken for granted. Since the advent of the talkies, the speaking voice synchronised to the human body on-screen is the ingrained process for narrative exposition and character development. However, this accepted synchronisation is one of sound cinema’s fundamental illusions.This major production for The Cinematologists features the analysis from leading film scholars and critics, each focusing on uses and interpretations of cinematic voice, using a plethora of filmic examples. Many aspects of the cinematic voice are explored including star voices, script and performance, so...
2020-03-172h 07
The Listening ServiceSad songs say so muchIn 1649, a month after the execution of King Charles I, the distraught composer Thomas Tomkins wrote a piece of music called "A sad pavan for these distracted times".
And in our own confusing times, is sad music what we need - or not? Tom Service looks at music's power to heal, to build community and to redefine historical events. With Associate Professor at University College London, Dr Daisy Fancourt, and author of "Singing in the Age of Anxiety", Laura Tunbridge.
2020-02-0929 min
Music MattersInternationalismThis week Kate talks a bracing walk along the sea shore in Blyth, Northumberland, and talks to wildlife sound recordist and composer Chris Watson about his life and work. Starting out as a musician at the centre of the Sheffield electronic revolution, making music with tape recorders with his band Cabaret Voltaire, influenced by the sounds of heavy industry, Chris eventually turned his back on the lure of pop-fame to pursue a career in TV and film, providing the sound tracks for nature programmes from around the world. Kate also discusses what makes a musical masterpiece with French pianist...
2020-01-1145 minRecord Review PodcastSchumann: Dichterliebe Op.48Laura Tunbridge recommends recordings of Schumann's poignant song cycle "Dichterliebe"
2020-01-0653 min
The TLS PodcastUnromancing the Romantics"The sociable side of nineteenth-century musical life is not acknowledged as often as it should be..." – Laura Tunbridge discusses the interconnected, complicated and often contradictory myths and realities that link Chopin, Schumann and Brahms; the TLS's music editor Lucy Dallas takes us through a selection of other pieces on music in this week's issue, including new histories of the blues and the poetic pop of Kate Bush and the Pet Shop Boys; when Irving Sandler wrote his seminal history of abstract expressionism, he neglected to mention Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan and Elaine de Kooning – Jenni Quil...
2019-07-1853 min
Record Review PodcastMozart: Piano QuartetsLaura Tunbridge recommends recordings of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Quartets
2019-07-0149 minRecord Review PodcastMozart: Piano QuartetsLaura Tunbridge recommends recordings of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Quartets
2019-07-0149 min
Discussions in Tunbridge WellsWhat is Home?With the UK (possibly) on the cusp of Brexit John, Laura and guests consider the meaning of home for people from the EU who have settled in Britain. Find out more on the show page on our blog. https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/discursive/podcast-what-is-home/
2019-04-0952 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesSinging in the Age of AnxietyLaura will be joined an expert panel to discuss the book and its themes; Dr Benjamin Walton (Jesus, Cambridge), Professor Kate McLoughlin (Harris Manchester, Oxford). Chaired by Professor Philip R. Bullock (Wadham, Oxford). In New York and London during World War I, the performance of lieder -German art songs- was roundly prohibited, representing as they did the music and language of the enemy. But as German musicians returned to the transatlantic circuit in the 1920s, so too did the songs of Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, and Richard Strauss. Lieder were encountered in a variety of venues and media-at luxury hotels...
2019-02-1945 minThe Listening ServiceSchubert - The Dark SideTom Service delves into the dark side of Franz Schubert. What can we hear in his music?A provincial composer who died young, described as looking like a "little mushroom", on the face of it Franz Schubert doesn't seem a likely candidate for deep insight into the human condition. But appearances are very definitely deceptive, and some of his music can seem deceptively straightforward as well. Join Tom Service for a journey into Schubert's psyche and discover what his music tells us about the man, and perhaps about ourselves.With Dr Laura Tunbridge of Oxford...
2019-02-0330 min
11th Hour Radio11th Hour Radio Episode 1-25-19In this episode co-hosts Kristina Stykos and Emily Howe discuss a panoply of legless creatures, worst attributes of a snake, a horrible trip from the front door to the car, how low water pressure led to an unfortunate encounter with a vacuum cleaner attachment, one strategy for almost blowing up your car, horse manure’s contribution to barnyard traction, an impromptu party, perplexing rules of the alphabet, a cool brother-in-law named Jim, mounting the impossible driveway, John’s spacey driving, a panicked call to the Sargeant at Arms, feeling abandoned during a laundry room emergency, almost burning down the hous...
2019-01-251h 02Record Review PodcastDebussy: String QuartetLaura Tunbridge recommends recordings of Debussy's String Quartet
2019-01-0543 minRecord Review PodcastDebussy: String QuartetLaura Tunbridge recommends recordings of Debussy's String Quartet
2019-01-0543 min
Start the WeekBritish culture and European influenceBritain has imported its culture from Europe for generations. Andrew Marr presents a special edition from Hatchlands Park in Surrey, home to the Cobbe Collection of musical instruments including pianos owned by Chopin, Mahler and Marie Antoinette.Frederic Chopin had a pan-European career. He swapped his native Poland for Paris, fled to Mallorca in search of sunshine and inspiration, and toured Britain twice, complaining bitterly about the 'crafty' locals and 'dreadful' British weather. But he had a huge impact on the musical scenes he left behind. Paul Kildea charts Chopin's journey across Europe. Sitting at the keys...
2018-07-0242 minRecord Review PodcastSchubert: Die Schöne MüllerinLaura Tunbridge recommends recordings of Franz Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin
2018-06-0945 minRecord Review PodcastSchubert: Die Schöne MüllerinLaura Tunbridge recommends recordings of Franz Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin
2018-06-0945 min
Discussions in Tunbridge WellsRace and Mental HealthRachel Terry, Laura Lea, John McGowan and guests discuss two recent high profile publications on the subject of race in mental health. Read more on the show page on our blog https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/discursive/podcast-race-and-mental-health/
2018-05-171h 25
In Our TimeBeethovenMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great composers, who was born into a family of musicians in Bonn. His grandfather was an eminent musician and also called Ludwig van Beethoven. His father, who was not as talented as Beethoven's grandfather, drank heavily and died when Beethoven was still young. It was his move to Vienna that allowed him to flourish, with the support at first of aristocratic patrons, when that city was the hub of European music. He is credited with developing the symphony further than any who preceded him, with elevating instrumental above choral music and...
2017-12-2150 min
In Our TimeBeethovenMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great composers, who was born into a family of musicians in Bonn. His grandfather was an eminent musician and also called Ludwig van Beethoven. His father, who was not as talented as Beethoven's grandfather, drank heavily and died when Beethoven was still young. It was his move to Vienna that allowed him to flourish, with the support at first of aristocratic patrons, when that city was the hub of European music. He is credited with developing the symphony further than any who preceded him, with elevating instrumental above choral music and with...
2017-12-2150 min
RSDS RADIO SOCIETÀ DEI SOGNIBeethovenMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great composers, who was born into a family of musicians in Bonn. His grandfather was an eminent musician and also called Ludwig van Beethoven. His father, who was not as talented as Beethoven's grandfather, drank heavily and died when Beethoven was still young. It was his move to Vienna that allowed him to flourish, with the support at first of aristocratic patrons, when that city was the hub of European music. He is credited with developing the symphony further than any who preceded him, with elevating instrumental above choral music and with...
2017-12-2150 min
In Our Time: CultureBeethovenMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great composers, who was born into a family of musicians in Bonn. His grandfather was an eminent musician and also called Ludwig van Beethoven. His father, who was not as talented as Beethoven's grandfather, drank heavily and died when Beethoven was still young. It was his move to Vienna that allowed him to flourish, with the support at first of aristocratic patrons, when that city was the hub of European music. He is credited with developing the symphony further than any who preceded him, with elevating instrumental above choral music and...
2017-12-2150 minStart the WeekDissecting DeathOn Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe delves into the world of transhumanism, a movement whose aim is to use technology to transform the human condition. The writer Mark O'Connell has explored this world of cyborgs, utopians and the futurists looking to live forever. Raymond Tallis seeks to wrest the mysteries of time away from the scientists in his reflections on the nature of transience and mortality. Laura Tunbridge listens to the late works of Beethoven, Schumann and Mahler to ask whether intimations of mortality shape these pieces, while the mortician Carla Valentine uncovers what the dead reveal about their...
2017-04-0341 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesKnowledge Exchange HighlightsHighlights from the Knowledge Exchange Showcase, 26 November 2015. Highlights from the Knowledge Exchange Showcase at Ertgeun House on the 26th November 2015. Featuring Knowledge Exchange Fellows: Dr Joshua Hordern; Dr Andrew Papanikitas; Barry Murnane; Laura Tunbridge; Martyn Harry; and Tiffany Stern.
2016-04-2802 min