WW1 - Music on the Brink
Clips, interviews and programmes on R3’s exploration of the musical world of January 1914
Charles Emmerson on the brink of WW1.
Charles Emmerson, author of '1913', looks ahead to Essential Classics' January WW1 week.
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Dr Kate Kennedy on the music landscape on the brink of WW1.—In Tune
Dr Kate Kennedy previews her postcard of musical London in 1913, for In Tune (10 Jan).
VIENNA: fictional postcard set in 1914 by Professor David Wyn Jones, read by Jonathan Pryce.
VIENNA: fictional postcard set in 1914 read by Jonathan Pryce.
VIENNA: How high tradition and modernity collide just before WW1.
Sarah Walker and Charles Emmerson discuss Vienna on the eve of the great war.
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VIENNA: On Schoenberg's brother-in-law Zemlinsky.
VIENNA: Zemlinsky's Walzer-Intermezzo and Zwischenspiel (Kleider machen Leute)
VIENNA: Modernist Moment - Tom Service introduces Webern's Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano Op.11
VIENNA: Modernist Moment - Tom Service introduces Webern's Three Little Pieces
Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1
VIENNA: Schoenberg's 'Chamber Symphony no.1'
VIENNA: Bethany Bell reflects on a century of changes in the Austrian capital.
BBC Foreign correspondent on Vienna over the last century.
VIENNA: Webern's 'Langsamer Satz'
VIENNA: Webern's 'Langsamer Satz'
VIENNA: Korngold's 'Introduction (The Snowman)'
VIENNA: Korngold's 'Introduction (The Snowman)'
Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
Donald Macleod talks about Schoenberg's 'Gurrelieder'
Rare pre-war music. Welte- Mignon Piano Rolls (Fantasia on Beethoven's 'Ruinen von Athen' played by Ferruccio Busoni)
Welte Mignon Piano Rolls - Fantasia on Beethoven's 'Ruinen von Athen' played by Busoni
PARIS: fictional postcard set in 1914 read by Dr Caroline Potter Jonathan Pryce.
PARIS: fictional postcard set in 1914 read by Jonathan Pryce.
PARIS: Charles Emmerson on how the French felt about their city on the eve of the war.
Sarah Walker and Charles Emmerson discuss Paris in 1914
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PARIS: Charles Emmerson on how Beethoven was the most performed composer in 1913-1914.
Sarah Walker and Charles Emmerson discuss Paris on the eve of the great war.
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PARIS: Modernist Moment - Tom Service introduces Stravinsky 'Three Japanese Lyrics'
PARIS: Modernist Moment - Tom Service introduces Stravinsky 'Three Japanese Lyrics'
BERLIN: fictional postcard set in 1914 by Dr Mark Berry read by Jonathan Pryce.
BERLIN: fictional postcard set in 1914 read by Jonathan Pryce.
BERLIN: Stephen Evans on the city 100 years ago
Berlin today is utterly unlike Berlin on the eve of war a century ago. From Breakfast.
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BERLIN: An excitingly modern place in 1913...
BERLIN: Sarah Walker and Charles Emmerson.
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BERLIN: Charles Emmerson on the Kaiser.
BERLIN: Sarah Walker and Charles Emmerson.
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BERLIN: Joshua Rifkin talks about Ragtime and plays Joplin.
BERLIN: Joshua Rifkin talks about Ragtime and plays Joplin.
BERLIN: Modernist Moment - Tom Service introduces Busoni's '2 Klavierstucke'
BERLIN: Modernist Moment - Tom Service introduces Busoni's '2 Klavierstucke'
ST PETERSBURG: fictional postcard set in 1914 by David Nice, read by Jonathan Pryce.
ST PETERSBURG: fictional postcard set in 1914 read by Jonathan Pryce.
ST PETERSBURG: How Russia was booming on the brink of the great war.
ST PETERSBURG: Sarah Walker and Charles Emmerson.
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