Music and Culture of WW1 Podcast
1) Musical Stories - Bechstein Hall
David Owen Norris looks at why Bechstein Hall was forced to change it's name
2) Gavrilo Princip's Footprints
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.
3) The Essay - Music on the Brink: London
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.
4) Modernist Moments - London
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,...Show More
5) Postcard from London
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
6) Essential Classics - London
Charles Emmerson on London, Elgar's Nimrod and the seeds of decline just beofre WW1.
7) Essential Classics - St Petersburg.
Historian Charles Emmerson St. Petersburg and the power of the Romanov Tsars.
8) Essential Classics - Berlin
Historian Charles Emmerson on how Berlin was exciting and modern before the great catastrophe about to happen.
9) Essential Classics - Paris
Historian Charles Emmerson on how Paris before WW1 might have felt and on Beethoven being the most performed composer.
10) Essential Classics - Vienna
Historian Charles Emmerson on how high tradition and modernity collide just before WW1.