Disco 1
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Introduction
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Richard Wagner: The Tristan Chord
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Vienna 1900
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Arnold Schönberg: Leaving tonality behind
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Gustav Mahler: Precursor of modernity
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Richard Strauss: Progressive or reactionary?
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Schönberg again: Developing the twelve-tone technique
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Anthon Webern: Master of the small form
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Alban Berg: Requiem for fallen culture
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Introduction
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Rhythm
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Igor Stravinsky: The vessel of an exhausted era cracking open
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Edgar Varèse: "Tunes are merely the gossips of music"
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Gustav Mahler: High in the stratosphere
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György Ligeti: "Music should not be well-bred"
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Steve Reich: The multi-layered face of music
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Conlon Nancarrow: The possibilities of digital dexterity
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Pierre Boulez: Ceremony of remembrance and extinction
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Olivier Messiaen: A celebration in sound
Disco 2
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Introduction
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Claude Debussy: Light and flexibility in music
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Igor Stravinsky: Carnivorous colours
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Maurice Ravel: The power of pure imagination
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Debussy's Jeux: Music without feet
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Arnold Schönberg: Searching for new modes of languages
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Pierre Boulez: "I need all the leaves"
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Olivier Messiaen: Music is coloured
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Toru Takemitsu: Walking through a beautiful Japanese Garden
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Introduction
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Music and politics
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Béla Bartók: A journey into exile
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Dmitri Shostakovitch: A journey towards truth
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Witold Lutoslawski: A journey towards freedom
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Introduction
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George Gershwin: Music that smells like New York
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Charles Ives: The insurance broker and devine composer
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Elliott Carter: America itself in music
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Aaron Copland: Through a particularly American Camera
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Kurt Weill: Melting pot America
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Leonard Bernstein: The vibrancy of American Life
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John Cage: An inventor of genius
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Morton Feldman: A kind of pulsating stillness
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Terry Riley: A type of hypnotic state
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John Adams: An exhilarating sense of flying motion