"In this series I'm going to look at five of the great breakthroughs that European music has experienced in its extraordinary history - five momentous discoveries. I also want to show what they mean to us today, at a time when so called classical music is being absorbed into a much bigger mainstream and when its 1,000-year reign seems to be coming to a close"

Howard Goodall

With intriguing anecdotes and witty humour, composer Howard Goodall presents five innovations in European musical history, which have overwhelmingly changed its course:

Notation, Equal Teperment, opera, Piano, Recorded Sound.