Music and Culture of WW1 Podcast
Highlights of 大象传媒 Radio 3鈥檚 special programmes to mark the WW1 centenary. Classical music, art, literature, film, popular songs and cultural life inspired by the war.
Episodes to download
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The Essay - Music on the Brink: Berlin
Thu 8 Jan 2015
Stephen Evans reminds us that the German capital on the eve of war was innovative.
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Modernist Moments - London
Fri 10 Oct 2014
Tom Service takes a litmus test of the classical music goings-on in London in 1914.
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Musical Stories - Bechstein Hall
Thu 10 Jul 2014
David Owen Norris looks at why Bechstein Hall was forced to change it's name
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Gavrilo Princip's Footprints
Sun 29 Jun 2014
Maria Margaronis probes the Archduke鈥檚 assassin, Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip's, legacy.
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The Essay - Music on the Brink: London
Fri 10 Jan 2014
Emma Jane Kirby considers the idea of London presenting to the wider world in 1914.
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Essential Classics - London
Fri 10 Jan 2014
Charles Emmerson on London, Elgar's Nimrod and the seeds of decline just beofre WW1.
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Postcard from London
Fri 10 Jan 2014
Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard from London just before WW1.
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The Essay - St Petersburg
Thu 9 Jan 2014
Steve Rosenberg finds a link between 1914鈥檚 St. Petersburg and its counterpart of today.
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Modernist Moments - St Petersburg
Thu 9 Jan 2014
Tom Service uncovers a world of startling sounds in Alexander Scriabin's final composition
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Postcard from St. Petersburg.
Thu 9 Jan 2014
Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard set in the St. Petersburg Conservatoire.
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Essential Classics - St Petersburg.
Thu 9 Jan 2014
Historian Charles Emmerson St. Petersburg and the power of the Romanov Tsars.
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Modernist Moments - Berlin
Wed 8 Jan 2014
Tom Service introduces Ferrucio Busoni鈥檚 Zwei Tanzst疟cke Op. 30a.
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Free Thinking - Musil's The Man Without Qualities
Wed 8 Jan 2014
Margaret Drabble and William Boyd discuss Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities.
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Essential Classics - Berlin
Wed 8 Jan 2014
Historian Charles Emmerson on how Berlin was exciting and modern.
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Postcard from Berlin
Wed 8 Jan 2014
Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard from Berlin charting the music landscape.
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Essential Classics - Paris
Tue 7 Jan 2014
Historian Charles Emmerson on how Paris before WW1 might have felt.
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Modernist Moments - Paris
Tue 7 Jan 2014
Tom Service introduces Stravinsky's Three Japanese Lyrics, first performed in 1914.
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Postcard from Paris
Tue 7 Jan 2014
Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard from an enthusiastic concert goer in Paris.
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Free Thinking - Europe on the Brink of War.
Tue 7 Jan 2014
AS Byatt, Neil Brand, Alexandra Harris and Philipp Blom choose artworks form the period.
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Modernist Moments - Vienna
Mon 6 Jan 2014
Tom Service with Webern's Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano Op.11.
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The Essay - Music on the Brink: Vienna
Mon 6 Jan 2014
Bethany Bell evokes both the public face of Austria-Hungary's capital.
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Postcard from Vienna
Mon 6 Jan 2014
Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard set in Vienna just before the outbreak of WW1.
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Essential Classics - Vienna
Mon 6 Jan 2014
Historian Charles Emmerson on how high tradition and modernity collide just before WW1.
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Somme
Sun 5 Jan 2014
Part of Radio 3's Music on the Brink. Paul Farley journeys down France's sleepiest river.
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Pat Barker
Sun 5 Jan 2014
Writer Pat Barker is fascinated by the First World War. Here she selects music.
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The Essay - Music on the Brink: Paris.
Mon 7 Jan 2013
Foreign Correspondent Hugh Schofield reimagines the French capital of Maurice Ravel.
