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.
27 Available Episodes (27 Total)Average duration: 00:14:01
Jul 10, 2014
Musical Stories - Bechstein Hall
00:05:55
David Owen Norris looks at why Bechstein Hall was forced to change it's name
Jun 29, 2014
Gavrilo Princip's Footprints
00:43:38
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.
Jan 10, 2014
The Essay - Music on the Brink: London
00:13:45
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.
Jan 10, 2014
Modernist Moments - London
00:03:31
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.
Jan 10, 2014
Postcard from London
00:05:32
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
Jan 10, 2014
Essential Classics - London
00:01:19
Charles Emmerson on London, Elgar's Nimrod and the seeds of decline just beofre WW1.
Jan 10, 2014
Essential Classics - St Petersburg.
00:01:33
Historian Charles Emmerson St. Petersburg and the power of the Romanov Tsars.
Jan 10, 2014
Essential Classics - Berlin
00:03:03
Historian Charles Emmerson on how Berlin was exciting and modern before the great catastrophe about to happen.
Jan 10, 2014
Essential Classics - Paris
00:02:27
Historian Charles Emmerson on how Paris before WW1 might have felt and on Beethoven being the most performed composer.
Jan 10, 2014
Essential Classics - Vienna
00:01:29
Historian Charles Emmerson on how high tradition and modernity collide just before WW1.
Jul 10 | 00:05:55
Musical Stories - Bechstein Hall
Jun 29 | 00:43:38
Gavrilo Princip's Footprints
Jan 10 | 00:13:45
The Essay - Music on the Brink: London
Jan 10 | 00:03:31
Modernist Moments - London
Jan 10 | 00:05:32
Postcard from London
Jan 10 | 00:01:19
Essential Classics - London
Jan 10 | 00:01:33
Essential Classics - St Petersburg.
Jan 10 | 00:03:03
Essential Classics - Berlin
Jan 10 | 00:02:27
Essential Classics - Paris
Jan 10 | 00:01:29
Essential Classics - Vienna
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