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The Music Of Time
Chile
- Broadcast
- 2017 (49 mins)
Wyre Davies explores what happened when the Chilean Nueva Canci-n movement collided with General Pinochet’s brutal regime. In the late fifties a style of popular folk music was born which evoked Chile’s...
The Music Of Time
After The Ottomans
- Broadcast
- 2017 (50 mins)
How the music of the dying Ottoman Empire was reborn and reinvented in the United States. Between 1895 and 1923, as the empire was unraveling, several hundred thousand Greeks, Armenians, Arabs, Jews and...
The Sound and the Fury
Episode 1 - Wrecking Ball
- Broadcast
- 2013 (59 mins)
This first programme in a three-part series on the avant-garde revolution in 20th century music asks, "What happened to classical music?" It looks at the shift in the language and sound of music from the...
The Sound and the Fury
Episode 2 - Free For All
- Broadcast
- 2013 (59 mins)
In the second film in the series, we see how the freewheeling modernism that had shocked, scandalised and titillated audiences in the Twentieth Century’s first two decades comes under state control....
The Sound and the Fury
Episode 3 - Easy Listening?
- Broadcast
- 2013 (59 mins)
In this last film in the series, the focus shifts to the United States in the post-war years of the 1950s and beyond. Beginning with arguably the most notorious work of 20th century classical music, John...
Symphony
Genesis and Genius
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
Simon Russell Beale presents a radical reappraisal of the place of the symphony in the modern world and explores the surprising way in which it has shaped our history and identity. The first episode begins...
Symphony
Beethoven and Beyond
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
Simon Russell Beale continues his journey into the world of the Symphony with the story of the revolutionary later symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven and their phenomenal impact over the last two centuries....
Symphony
New Nations and New Worlds
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
In this third programme, Simon Russell Beale takes us on a musical journey through the rise of nationalism in Europe into the New World. He discovers how nationalist voices such as Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and...
Symphony
Revolution and Rebirth
- Broadcast
- 2011 (59 mins)
In the final programme of the series, Simon Russell Beale’s journey takes him into the 20th century, a time when the certainties of Empire were falling away, war was looming and the world was changing...
Discovering Tchaikovsky
Discovering Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
- Broadcast
- 2007 (58 mins)
Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet (Fantasy Overture) performed by the BBC Philharmonic. 2 pts. workshop & performance. Charles Hazlewood dissects the music & analyses key points in the musical material.