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The story of British classical music life from after World War Two to the present day

Classic Britannia: Modernism and Minimalism

Modernism and Minimalism

29/06/2007

BBC Four - Classic Britannia, Modernism and Minimalism

Series looking at British classical musical life since World War Two.

Series about British classical music since WW2. In the 1960s, radicals like Harrison Birtwistle reclaimed the right to provoke, shock and inspire.

Three-part series looking at British classical music from the end of World War Two to the present day. In the 1960s, classical music finally shook off the past and embraced its own revolution. 

A generation of young radicals, from Cornelius Cardew and Gavin Bryars to Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle, reclaimed their right to provoke, shock and inspire, reinventing classical music for the modern world.

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