WW1 - Music in The Great War
Explore the story of WW1 through music, in new recordings and moments from the archive.
Britain - Outbreak: David Owen Norris WW1 Musical Stories - King Albert's Book
David Owen Norris takes a look at King Albert's Book
Britain - Outbreak: Kate Kennedy talks to Sarah Walker
Kate Kennedy talks about Wagner's Tannhauser: Overture and Granados 'Rondalla aragonesa'
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Britain - Outbreak: Allan Little reflects on CRW Nevison's 1917 painting, Paths of Glory
Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny: Music in the Great War
Britain - Outbreak: Jeremy Dibble on Stanford's Irish Rhapsody
Jeremy Dibble discusses Stanford's Irish Rhapsody on Afternoon on 3.
'Edward Elgar - The Edwardian Golden Summer'
An extract from Composer of the Week: 'Edward Elgar - The Edwardian Golden Summer'
Britain - At the Front: David Owen Norris WW1 Musical Stories - Highland Bagpipers
David Owen Norris on the Highland Bagpipers who led their regiments over the top
Britain - At the Front: Kate Kennedy talks to Sarah Walker about Concert life on the Front
Clip from Essential Classics of Kate Kennedy talking about music on the front.
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Edward Elgar's disillusionment with WW1
Composer of the Week: Britain at War: At the Front
Britain - At the Front: Petroc Trelawny talks to the Great Nephew of William Denis Browne
Short interview with Nick Peacy, the Great Nephew of William Dinis Browne.
Germany at War: David Owen Norris WW1 Musical Stories - Bechstein Hall
David Owen Norris looks at why Bechstein Hall was forced to change it's name
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Germany at War: Dr Stefan Hanheide talking about the music of Walter Braunfels.
Dr Stefan Hanheide, Music Professor at Osnabruck University
Germany at War: Kate Kennedy on German music
Kate Kennedy talks to Sarah Walker about German music during WW1
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Elgar and the Gramophone Company
Clip from Composer of the Week 'Elgar and the Gramophone Company'
Britain - The Home Front: David Owen Norris WW1 Musical Stories - Lilian Baylis
David Owen Norris on Lilian Baylis and The Old Vic
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Britain -The Home Front: Kate Kennedy talks about Female composers in WW1
Kate Kennedy talks about The Home Front and the roll of Women in music during WW1
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Elgar and The Fringes of the Fleet
Clip from Composer of the Week 'Elgar and The Fringes of the Fleet'
Britain the Home Front: Patrick Hawes on Edith Cavell
Patrick Hawes on Edith Cavell the Norfolk nurse who was executed in Belgium in 1915
Austria-Hungary at War: David Owen Norris WW1 Musical Stories - Fritz Kreisler
David Owen Norris looks at Fritz Kreisler account of his days at the front
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Austria-Hungary at War: Kate Kennedy talks to Sarah Walker about Austria-Hungary
Kate Kennedy talks about music in Austria-Hungary during WW1
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Armistice Declared, But No Celebration for Elgar
Clip from Composer of the Week
France at War: David Owen Norris Musical Stories - Marechal
David Owen Norris looks at musical instruments made and used on the Front.
France at War: Rob Cowan talks to Jay Winter
American historian Jay Winter talks about French music in WW1
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Kate Kennedy on Ivor Gurney
Kate Kennedy on Ivor Gurney - from Composer of the Week 'The Young Genius'
Russia at War: David Owen Norris WW1 Musical Stories - Alexander Scriabin
David Owen Norris hears about the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin
















