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Europe in the 1930s

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

This was a decade in which depression and recovery led to catastrophe. Stephen Banfield shows how complacency and commitment, fear and hope mingled with popular culture to produce potent, sometimes desperate music, including Walton
Symphony No 1 Sibelius
Funeral, Op 111b
Dallapiccola Il coro dei malammogliati Strauss
Die schweigsame Frau Vaughan Williams
Dona nobispacem Schmidt
Symphony No 4 Britten
Our Hunting Fathers

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Stephen Banfield
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Malammogliati Strauss
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Frau Vaughan Williams
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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