In Their Own Words: 20th Century Composers

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1 General Information
2 Cover
3 Information
- 3.1 Radical Movements (1912-1941)
- 3.2 But is It Music? (1945-1989)
4 Screenshots
5 Technical Specs
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Arts Documentary hosted by Rebecca Front, published by BBC in 2013 - English narration

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Series using the BBC archives to reawaken the voices of 20th-century classical composers.

[edit] Radical Movements (1912-1941)

Remarkable rare footage of Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Copland, Walton, Elisabeth Lutyens, Richard Strauss, Shostakovich, Messiaen and Tippett gives a first-hand account of the revolution that classical music underwent in the first half of the century.
As we see Schoenberg play tennis, Strauss and Shostakovich play with their grandchildren and hear Messiaen tell the story of how he wrote his most significant work in a German PoW camp, we get a vivid picture of what it took to be a composer during the most turbulent time in modern history.

[edit] But is It Music? (1945-1989)

We discover how the crisis of writing music in a post-war world was met in very different ways by the likes of Britten, Bernstein, Cage, Boulez, Stockhausen, Maxwell Davies, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Tavener, Reich, Adams and Glass. Tavener plays badminton whilst drunk, Cage defends his 4'33" of "silence" and Delia Derbyshire, co-creator of the Doctor Who theme tune, reveals how British techno music has its roots in the bowels of the BBC.

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Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4.1
Video Bitrate: 3 266 Kbps
Video Resolution: 1280x720
Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames Per Second: 25.000 fps
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 256 kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 59mn
Number Of Parts: 2
Part Size: 1.45 GB
Source: HDTV
Capper: WormOfDoom@TheBox