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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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An odyssey through the musical universe, presented by Tom Service

Rethink music with The Listening Service. Tom Service presents a journey of imagination and insight, exploring how music works

The Listening Service: Collage, writ large: Berio's Sinfonia

Collage, writ large: Berio's Sinfonia

BBC Radio 3 - The Listening Service, Collage, writ large: Berio's Sinfonia

Tom Service explores Luciano Berio's 1968 Sinfonia for orchestra and 8 amplified voices.

Tom Service explores Luciano Berio's 1968 Sinfonia - a collage of texts and musical quotations by Samuel Beckett, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Beethoven, Debussy, Mahler and Schoenberg.

Tom Service explores Luciano Berio's Sinfonia - an iconic piece of the late 1960s modernism, scored for orchestra and eight amplified voices who speak, whisper and shout texts by Samuel Beckett and Claude Lévi-Strauss. This groundbreaking work also incorporates a mass of musical quotations, from Bach to Stockhausen and everything in between.

Tom's witness is the virtuoso sitarist and composer Jasdeep Singh Degun, who like Berio, took Monteverdi's opera Orfeo and reinvented it.

Produced by Dom Wells

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.

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