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Essential Classics: Music on the Brink: Berlin

Music on the Brink: Berlin

08/01/2014

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

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential Choice: Dohnanyi: Variations on a Nursery Tune.

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: English Fantasia; Music and culture of Berlin on the eve of World War One; Sarah's Essential Choice: Dohnanyi: Variations on a Nursery Tune.

Sarah Walker and at 10.30am her guest, the historian Charles Emmerson, discussing the music and cultural trends in Berlin on the eve of World War One.

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: Endings

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 Berlin on the eve on World War 1, as part of Radio 3's Music on the Brink season.

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.

11am
Essential Choice: Music on the Brink - Berlin

Dohnányi
Variations on a Nursery Tune for piano and orchestra
Andras Schiff
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti (conductor)

11:25am
Schumann
Symphony No. 1
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

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