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Leaving home, orchestral music in the 20th century, a conducted tour by Sir Simon Rattle with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ; producers, Hilary Chadwick, Sue Knussen ; director, Peter West ; an LWT programme, 1

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Leaving home, orchestral music in the 20th century, a conducted tour by Sir Simon Rattle with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ; producers, Hilary Chadwick, Sue Knussen ; director, Peter West ; an LWT programme, 1

Language

eng

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videorecording

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Not rated

Main title

Leaving home, orchestral music in the 20th century

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

62333091

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Originally produced for television in 1996

Responsibility statement

a conducted tour by Sir Simon Rattle with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ; producers, Hilary Chadwick, Sue Knussen ; director, Peter West ; an LWT programme

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Summary

"Sir Simon Rattle describes the musical revolution that erupted in turn-of-the-nineteenth-century Vienna and the generation of ground-breaking composers that left tradition behind"--Container

Table Of Contents

Richard Wagner : the Tristan chord -- Vienna 1900 -- Arnold Schönberg : leaving tonality behind -- Gustav Mahler : precursor of modernity -- Richard Strauss : progressive or reactionary? -- Schönberg again : developing the twelve-tone technique -- Anton Webern : master of the small form -- Alban Berg : requiem for a fallen cultureExcerpts from: Overture to Tristan und Isolde / Richard Wagner -- Verklärte Nacht / Arnold Schönberg -- Symphony no. 7 in E minor / Gustav Mahler -- Five orchestral pieces, op. 16 / Schönberg -- Elektra / Richard Strauss -- Five pieces for orchestra, op. 10 / Anton Webern -- Violin concerto "Dem Andenken eines Engels" / Alban Berg

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live action

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Orchestral music in the 20th century, 1Dancing on a volcanoSir Simon Rattle leaving home, 1Leaving home, 1

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