Turn up the Volume, Dial up the Drama
From loud to soft, even louder and even softer, dynamics are crucial to the dramatic effect of music. Tom Service adjusts the volume.
From loud to soft, even louder and even softer, dynamics are crucial to the dramatic effect of music.
Tom Service discovers just how loud and soft classical music can be, and pop music that is louder still. Is it all about loudness, or are the quiet moments more evocative?
The Royal College of Music鈥檚 Head of Composition William Mival and 成人快手 Sound engineer Matilda Macari give an insight into just how loud the music that we're hearing through our radios is.
Produced by Calantha Bonnissent.
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叠箩枚谤办
It's Oh So Quiet
- Elektra.
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William Mival
Quartet (RBG) for strings
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R. Murray Schafer
The Darkly splendid Earth: the lonely traveller for violin and orchestra
Conductor: G眉nther Herbig. Performer: Jacques Israelievitch. Performer: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.- CBC.
- SMCD 5114.
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Carl Orff
Carmina burana - cantiones profanae for soloists, chorus and orchestra
Conductor: Christian Thielemann. Performer: German Opera Berlin Chorus. Performer: German State Opera Orchestra.- DG.
- 453 5872.
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Christopher Guest
Heavy Duty
Performer: Spinal Tap.- Polydor.
- 817-846-2.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 overture Op.49
Conductor: Erich Kunzel. Performer: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.- TELARC.
- CD80041.
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Gustav Holst
The Planets - suite Op.32
Conductor: Andrew Davis. Performer: 成人快手 Philharmonic.- CHANDOS.
- CHSA5086.
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Sleazy Joe
Rock Star
Performer: Sleazy Joe.- Display Records.
- 00.
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FINNEAS
When The Party's Over
Performer: Billie Eilish.- Darkroom/Interscope Records.
- N/A.
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Claude Debussy
Suite bergamasque for piano
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- Hyperion.
- CDA67898.
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Arvo P盲rt
Nunc dimittis for chorus
Music Arranger: Peter Phillips. Performer: Tallis Scholars.- GIMELL.
- CDGIM011.
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Morton Feldman
For Philip Guston for flute, percussion and piano/celesta
Performer: Elmar Schrammel. Performer: Julia Breuer. Performer: Matthias Engler.- WERGO.
- 6701 2.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata quasi una fantasia in C sharp minor Op.27`2 (Moonlight) for piano (Piano sonata no.14)
Performer: Daniel Barenboim.- DG.
- 4779146.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no. 9
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Performer: New York Philharmonic.- CBS.
- M3K42200.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Zauberflote - singspiel in 2 acts K.620
Conductor: Neville Marriner. Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Performer: Olaf B盲r. Performer: Academy of St Martin-In-The-Fields Chamber Ens..- Philips.
- 4262762.
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Jean Sibelius
Symphony no. 6 in D minor Op.104
Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲. Performer: Minnesota Orchestra.- BIS-2006.
- BIS-2006 SACD.
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Gyorgy Ligeti
Concerto for cello and orchestra
Conductor: Baldur Br枚nnimann. Performer: Christian Polt茅ra. Performer: BIT20 Ensemble.- BIS.
- BIS-2209.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Symphony no. 3 in C minor Op.78 (Organ symphony)
Performer: Gaston Litaize. Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
- DG 415847-2.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia concertante in E flat major K.364 for violin, viola and orchestra (KE.320d)
Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg. Performer: Gordan Nikolitch. Performer: Julia Fischer. Performer: Radio Kamerorkest.- Pentatone.
- PTC5186098.
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Richard Wagner
Das Rheingold [Part 1 of 'Der Ring des Nibelungen']
Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Performer: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.- WARNER.
- 256462091-2.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony no. 7 in C major Op.60 (Leningrad)
Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi. Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.- chandos.
- CHAN8623.
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Led Zeppelin
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
- ATLANTIC.
- 7567-83619-2.
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Andrew Wyatt
Shallow
Composer: Anthony Rossomando. Composer: Lady Gaga. Composer: Mark Ronson. Performer: Bradley Cooper. Performer: Lady Gaga.- Interscope.
- 00.
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Metallica
My Apocalypse
- Vertigo.
- 1784020.
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Franz Liszt
Concerto no. 1 in E flat major S.124 for piano and orchestra
Conductor: Charles Dutoit. Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet. Performer: Orchestre symphonique de Montr茅al.- DECCA.
- 433 075-2.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony no. 6 in B minor Op.74 (Pathetique)
Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini. Performer: Los Angeles Philharmonic.- DG.
- 4778840.
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Charles Ives
Varied air and variations K.X.21 for piano
Performer: Steven Mayer.- Naxos.
- 8.559127.
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Edward Elgar
Symphony no. 2 in E flat major Op.63
Conductor: Colin Davis. Performer: London Symphony Orchestra.- LSO LIVE.
- LSO0018D.
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