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Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.

The Essay: Brahms Experience

The Essay: Brahms Experience: Episode 2: Brahms and Nature

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Episode 2: Brahms and Nature

Brahms and Nature

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Writer Lesley Chamberlain investigates how Brahms was influenced by the natural world.

Five Essays about the 19th-century German composer Johannes Brahms. Part 2 of 5.

Recorded in front of an audience at St. Georges, Bristol, as part of BBC Radio 3's Brahms Experience - a week-long exploration of Brahms' life and music.

Interaction with nature is one of the cornerstones of 19th-century Romantic music. Writer Lesley Chamberlain offers a chance to join Brahms for a creative ramble and sets his work in the climate of German ideas about nature.

In the German Romantic tradition Nature is Art's rival and the artist's consolation. Brahms' love of nature, which came to him in hours of shared and solitary walking, intensified the demands he made on himself as a composer.

Producer: Melvin Rickarby.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Series of essays about 19th-century German composer Johannes Brahms

Series of essays about 19th-century German composer Johannes Brahms, recorded in front of an audience at St George's Bristol

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