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Katie Derham continues Radio 3's month of programmes complementing the 大象传媒4 series "Symphony" - including every note of every Symphony featured in the television series. This week the Afternoon on 3 series reaches the twentieth century and find the Symphony flourishing far from its Austro-German foundations. Today Katie presents three very contrasting Symphonies from the 1920s: Vaughan Williams's 'war requiem', expiating his experiences during the First World War; the precocious first Symphony written by Dmitri Shostakovich at - incredibly - the age of 18; and one of the most unusual (and shortest) works ever to have been called a Symphony - by Anton Webern.