The Essay Episodes Available now
Brahms and Germany—Brahms Experience
3/5 Natasha Loges explores Brahms's complex political relationship with his homeland.
Brahms and Nature—Brahms Experience
2/5 Writer Lesley Chamberlain investigates how Brahms was influenced by the natural world.
Public Brahms, Private Brahms—Brahms Experience
1/5 Pianist Natasha Loges considers what lay behind Brahms's famously gruff public persona.
Trip Sheets: Changes—Trip Sheets
5/5 Michael Goldfarb explores how New York and its taxi industry have changed since the 1970s.
Trip Sheets: The Artistic Scene—Trip Sheets
4/5 Why 70s New York was a place of violence and economic collapse, but also artistic ferment.
Trip Sheets: The Bronx—Trip Sheets
3/5 Writer Michael Goldfarb on driving through smouldering ruins in the Bronx in the 1970s.
Episode 2—Trip Sheets
2/5 Michael Goldfarb describes an encounter with writer Philip Roth in New York in the 1970s.
Trip Sheets: The Actor's Life—Trip Sheets
1/5 Michael Goldfarb discusses the freedom, joy and absurdity of the actor's life.
The Firebird—Music in Its Time
5/10 Stephen Johnson on the reactions of the first audiences to Stravinsky's The Firebird.
Bach: St Matthew Passion—Music in Its Time
4/10 Exploring the impact of Bach's St Matthew Passion on its first audiences in Leipzig.
