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Ivan Hewett explores how different musical keys seem to have distinct characteristics

Ivan Hewett explores how different musical keys seem to have distinct characteristics and create specific moods

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B Minor

BBC Radio 4 - Key Matters, Series 3, B Minor

Ivan Hewett joins choral conductor Simon Halsey to explore the austere key of B Minor.

Ivan Hewett is joined by choral conductor Simon Halsey to explore the serious and somewhat austere key of B Minor.

In "Key Matters" Ivan Hewett explores the way in which different musical keys appear to have unique characteristics of their own. In this first programme, Ivan is joined by choral conductor, Simon Halsey, to explore the serious and somewhat austere key of B minor. This key seemed to acquire its flavour from Bach's use of it in his famous B Minor Mass and this tradition continued through Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor and the final heartbreaking movement of Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony. 

Producer: Rosie Boulton.

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