Leaving Home - Orchestral music in the 20th century 6/7: After the Wake (Barrie Gavin, 1996) VOSE

The sixth episode looks both backwards and forwards. It considers the musical legacy of two old men who had dominated the first part of the 20th century - Schoenberg and Strauss - and looks at the post-war generation of young Europeans, such as Boulez and Stockhausen, who were determined to erase the recent past and build a completely new music for a new Europe. With excerpts from: STRAUSS: Four Last Songs; SCHOENBERG: A Survivor from Warsaw; BRITTEN: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings; STRAVINSKY: Agon; STOCKHAUSEN: Gruppen; BOULEZ: Le Marteau sans maitre