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Essential Classics: Music on the Brink: Vienna

Music on the Brink: Vienna

06/01/2014

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Music on the Brink: Vienna

With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Korngold: Sinfonietta, Op 5.

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: English Fantasia; Music and culture of Vienna on the eve of World War One; Sarah's Essential Choice: Korngold: Sinfonietta.

A century ago in January 1914, the world was preparing for war. This week Radio 3's season Music on the Brink looks at the musical and cultural life of Europe on the eve of war ? as part of World War One on the BBC.

Each day on Essential Classics, Sarah Walker relives the sounds of a different European city ? Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St Petersburg and London ?
at this momentous time in history. Sarah and her guest, the historian and writer on international affairs Charles Emmerson, discuss the cultural trends affecting each city and hear music that would have been performed in those cities on the eve of war.

Charles Emmerson is the author of 1913: The World Before the Great War, which tells the stories of twenty-three cities across the world - from Europe's capitals and the emerging metropolises of America, to the imperial cities of Asia and Africa. He has worked for the International Crisis Group, the World Economic Forum, and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House, working on resource security issues, foreign policy and global geopolitics. He is also the author of The Future History of the Arctic.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: English Fantasia: favourite works of Elgar, Delius and Vaughan Williams. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30: Who's Dancing?

10am
Artist of the Week: Elly Ameling

10.30am
Sarah and her guest the historian and writer on international affairs Charles Emmerson discuss the music and cultural trends in Vienna on the eve on World War One, as part of Radio 3's Music on the Brink season.

11am
Essential Choice: Music on the Brink - Vienna

Korngold
Sinfonietta, Op. 5
BBC Philharmonic
Matthias Bamert (conductor).

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