Music and Culture of WW1

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Highlights of BBC Radio 3’s special programmes to mark the WW1 centenary. Classical music, art, literature, film, popular songs and cultural life inspired by the war.

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    • Jul 10, 2014 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 14m AVG DURATION
    • 27 EPISODES


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    Musical Stories - Bechstein Hall

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2014 5:55


    David Owen Norris looks at why Bechstein Hall was forced to change it's name

    Gavrilo Princip's Footprints

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2014 43:38


    Maria Margaronis explores the legacy of Gavrilo Princip, the Bosnian Serb whose shots sparked the Great War. His deeds, memory and legacy remain contested in the Balkans and beyond.

    The Essay - Music on the Brink: London

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2014 13:45


    Emma Jane Kirby considers the idea of London presenting to both the wider world and Britons themselves in 1914. And she assesses how far these attitudes still resonate today.

    Modernist Moments - London

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2014 3:31


    Tom Service takes a litmus test of the classical music goings-on in London in 1914 and finds Modernist Moments by native composers thin on the ground. Two songs by Frank Bridge, Where She Lies Asleep, and Love Went a-riding, written that year, tell the story.

    Postcard from London

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2014 5:32


    Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard from London just before WW1, where Vaughan Williams seems to have caught the imagination of the city. Written by Dr Kate Kennedy

    Essential Classics - London

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2014 1:19


    Charles Emmerson on London, Elgar's Nimrod and the seeds of decline just beofre WW1.

    Essential Classics - St Petersburg.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2014 1:33


    Historian Charles Emmerson St. Petersburg and the power of the Romanov Tsars.

    Essential Classics - Berlin

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2014 3:03


    Historian Charles Emmerson on how Berlin was exciting and modern before the great catastrophe about to happen.

    Essential Classics - Paris

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2014 2:27


    Historian Charles Emmerson on how Paris before WW1 might have felt and on Beethoven being the most performed composer.

    Essential Classics - Vienna

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2014 1:29


    Historian Charles Emmerson on how high tradition and modernity collide just before WW1.

    Free Thinking - Liberal England

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2014 43:59


    Professor Roy Foster, the journalist and author Nick Cohen, Baroness Shirley Williams, Duncan Brack of the Liberal Democrat Party History Group and the author Bea Campbell join Philip Dodd to discuss a Landmark book which explores the collapse of Liberal values in Britain. And does 'The Strange Death of Liberal England' written by George Dangerfield in 1934 have a message for political debate and the wider culture now?

    The Essay - St Petersburg

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2014 13:43


    The BBC's Moscow correspondent, Steve Rosenberg, finds a revealing connection between the St. Petersburg of 1914 and its counterpart of today.

    Modernist Moments - St Petersburg

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2014 3:32


    Tom Service uncovers a world of startling sounds and heightened feeling in Alexander Scriabin’s final composition, the Five Preludes Op.74. Written in 1914 in St Petersburg, months before Scriabin died, here is music riddled with the ambiguities of the time.

    Postcard from St. Petersburg.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2014 4:54


    Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard set in the St. Petersburg Conservatoire just before The Great War broke out, looking at the music of the time, particularly Prokofiev. Written by David Nice

    Free Thinking - Musil's The Man Without Qualities

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2014 44:05


    Margaret Drabble and William Boyd take part in a Landmark discussion about Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities.

    Free Thinking - Europe on the Brink of War.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2014 43:58


    Novelist AS Byatt, the film expert Neil Brand and the cultural historians Alexandra Harris and Philipp Blom choose artworks form the period.

    The Essay - Music on the Brink: Berlin

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2014 13:42


    Stephen Evans, the BBC's Berlin Correspondent, reminds us that the German capital on the eve of war was the world's most innovative technological centre. Einstein was here, the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics from 1914. Mark Twain called Berlin the "German Chicago" because of its dizzying sense of modernity and progress.

    Modernist Moments - Berlin

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2014 3:24


    Tom Service introduces Ferrucio Busoni’s Zwei Tanzstűcke Op.30a (Two Dance Studies), a piano work that captures the vibe of Berlin in early 1914. Tom also takes a glance at the frenetic music scene of the city of the time.

    Postcard from Berlin

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2014 4:56


    Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard from Berlin charting the music landscape of the city. Written by Dr Mark Berry

    The Essay - Music on the Brink: Paris.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2014 13:48


    Foreign Correspondent Hugh Schofield reimagines the French capital of Maurice Ravel, the Ballets Russes and Henri Matisse - but which politically suffered continuing angst over its neighbour across the Rhine: Germany.

    Modernist Moments - Paris

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2014 3:36


    Tom Service introduces Stravinsky's Three Japanese Lyrics, miniatures first performed in Paris in 1914 a year after the composer's Rite of Spring.

    Postcard from Paris

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2014 4:55


    Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard from an enthusiastic concert goer in Paris just before the outbreak of WW1 which looks at the musical temperature of the time. Written by Dr Caroline Potter

    The Essay - Music on the Brink: Vienna

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2014 13:37


    Bethany Bell, the BBC's Vienna Correspondent, evokes both the public face of Austria-Hungary's capital and the simmering tensions which underlay its multi-national empire on the eve of the greatest conflagration the world had yet seen.

    Modernist Moments - Vienna

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2014 3:28


    Tom Service with Webern's Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano Op.11. Followed by music which would have been heard at a concert in Vienna with the Konzertverein orchestra in February 1914.

    Postcard from Vienna

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2014 5:49


    Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard set in Vienna just before the outbreak of WW1 that asks whether Vienna really was the musical capital of Europe. Written by Professor David Wyn Jones

    Pat Barker

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2014 31:11


    Writer Pat Barker is fascinated by the First World War. Here she selects her music choices. From Private Passions.

    Somme

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2014 43:43


    Part of Radio 3's Music on the Brink. Paul Farley journeys down France's sleepiest river whose character belies its violent history.

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