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The music writer Laura Barton presents a series of meditations on different facets of the music we enjoy - starting with the baritone voice. Celebrated British singer Roderick Williams has described his role as an operatic baritone as often arriving on stage "with a frown". He shares the characterisation of the baritone voice in opera and classical concert music with Laura, and also reflects, alongside Matt Berninger of the American indie rock band The National, on the wisdom, the masculinity, the melancholy often associated with it, while John Cale (formerly of the Velvet Underground) meditates on the timbre - the fundamentals and frequencies - of the baritone voice. Music: Bill Callahan – Riding the Feeling Leonard Cohen – Chelsea Hotel Beethoven – An die ferne Geliebte (Roderick Williams) Verdi – Di provenza il mar (La Traviata) (Dmitri Hvorostovsky) The National – Sorrow Johnny Cash – I See a Darkness Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows Smog – Let Me See the Colts The National – Light Years John Cale – You Know More Than I Know Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs Mark Lanegan – Judas Touch Gerald Finzi – By Footpath and Stile (Roderick Williams) The National – Pink Rabbits Bill Callahan - Pigeons Produced by Alan Hall A Falling Tree production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4