The Making of MusicSeries 2Episodes Episode guide

Back up to: The Making of Music

1. The Making of Music

   30/30Where have we come to and what is the current state of classical music?
2. A Time of Plenty

   29/30British composers play a significant part in contemporary music.
3. The Impact of Technology

   28/30Composers experimented with electronics to extend musical boundaries.
4. Dissent

   27/30Composers in the 1960s and 70s expressed their rage against the system.
5. The Sixties

   26/30Modern composers tried to make their voices heard above the noise of pop culture.
6. Leonard Bernstein

   25/30The great American composer's music embraced the classical and the popular.
7. The Modernists

   24/30A new generation of postwar composers wanted to sweep away the past.
8. Britain Victorious

   23/30British composers such as Benjamin Britten responded to the war and its aftermath.
9. Those Who Got Away

   22/30How many musicians escaped the jackbooted shadow of Hitler's Europe.
10. World War II: Those Who Stayed Put

    21/30The war inspired many masterpieces, including Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony.
11. The Depression

    20/30Despite the Wall Street crash and falling record sales, music was booming.
12. Stalin

    19/30How did composers such as Shostakovich and Prokofiev fare under the Stalinist regime?
13. Cinema

    18/30The film industry became the great patron of music in the 20th century.
14. Music for the Masses

    17/30Audiences were able to buy vinyl discs for the first time.
15. Into the Past

    16/30In the 1920s, French composers such as Poulenc and Ravel looked back to yesteryear.
16. Jazz

    15/30A new musical form emerged, drawing on the singing of spirituals and early blues forms.
17. Revolution in Russia

    14/30The Russian Revolution had a huge impact on music.
18. Out of Fashion

    13/30After World War I, some composers were looking for a radical shift in classical music.
19. The Path to War

    12/30Many composers were shaped by the horrors of World War One. Some were drafted themselves.
20. The End of the Hapsburgs

    11/30With the Austro-Hungarian empire in its last years, Janacek became a poet of his time.
21. A Riot

    10/30Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring caused a riot in Paris on its premiere in May 1913.
22. Elgar

    9/30Does the music of the great English composer merely express jingoistic nationalism?
23. Pre-War Vienna

    8/30The Austrian capital was one of the most culturally important cities in the world.
24. Fakes and Mystics

    7/30Mysticism was in fashion at the beginning of the twentieth century.
25. Exotic Paris

    6/30Claude Debussy produced music that was original and daring but immediately accepted.
26. Wagner

    5/30The theatre established by Wagner at Bayreuth came to be a cultural magnet.
27. My Country

    4/30In the late 19th century, European music began to express the desire for nation states.
28. Viva Verdi

    3/30Giuseppe Verdi's work is inseparable from politics.
29. Mother Russia

    2/30Glinka wanted Russian music to reflect the distinctiveness of his own country.
30. The Shock of The Future

    1/30As nationalism swept across Europe, composers looked to both the past and the future.