Musik des 20.Jahrhunderts

Trackliste Dancing on a Volcano (Volume I, Dokumentation) Wagner, Richard / Schönberg, Arnold / Mahler, Gustav / Strauss, Richard / Webern, Anton / Berg, Alban Introduction 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 Anthon Webern: Master of the small form Alban Berg: Requiem for fallen culture Rhythm (Volume II, Dokumentation) Strawinsky, Igor / Varèse, Edgar / Ligeti, György / Reich, Steve / Boulez, Pierre / Messiaen, Olivier / Mahler, Gustav Introduction Rhythm Igor Stravinsky: The vessel of an exhausted era cracking open Edgar Varèse: "Tunes are merely the gossips of music" Gustav Mahler: High in the stratosphere György Ligeti: "Music should not be well-bred" Steve Reich: The multi-layered face of music Conlon Nancarrow: The possibilities of digital dexterity Pierre Boulez: Ceremony of remembrance and extinction Olivier Messiaen: A celebration in sound Colour (Volume III, Dokumentation) Debussy, Claude / Strawinsky, Igor / Schönberg, Arnold / Boulez, Pierre / Messiaen, Olivier / Takemitsu, Toru Introduction Claude Debussy: Light and flexibility in music Igor Stravinsky: Carnivorous colours Maurice Ravel: The power of pure imagination Debussy's Jeux: Music without feet Arnold Schönberg: Searching for new modes of languages Pierre Boulez: "I need all the leaves" Olivier Messiaen: Music is coloured Toru Takemitsu: Walking through a beautiful Japanese Garden Three Journeys through dark Landscapes (Volume IV, Dokumentation) Bartók, Béla / Schostakowitsch, Dimitri / Lutoslawski, Witold Introduction Music and politics Béla Bartók: A journey into exile Dmitri Shostakovitch: A journey towards truth Witold Lutoslawski: A journey towards freedom The American Way (Volume V, Dokumentation) Gershwin, George / Ives, Charles / Cage, John / Carter, Elliott / Feldman, Morton / Copland, Aaron / Adams, John Introduction George Gershwin: Music that smells like New York Charles Ives: The insurance broker and devine composer Elliott Carter: America itself in music Aaron Copland: Through a particularly American Camera Kurt Weill: Melting pot America Leonard Bernstein: The vibrancy of American Life John Cage: An inventor of genius Morton Feldman: A kind of pulsating stillness Terry Riley: A type of hypnotic state John Adams: An exhilarating sense of flying motion After the Wake (Volume VI, Dokumentation) Strauss, Richard / Schönberg, Arnold / Webern, Anton / Boulez, Pierre / Stockhausen, Karlheinz / Britten, Benjamin Introduction The "other" Richard Strauss: Four last songs Arnold Schönberg: "The forgotten creed" After the wake Messiaen's composition class Pierre Boulez: The protons of music Karlheinz Stockhausen: A playtime for the imagination Benjamin Britten: An outsider in many different ways Igor Stravinsky: A pocket sized history of music Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Gruppen" (Special Feature) Threads (Volume VII, Dokumentation) Berio, Luciano / Henze, Hans Werner / Kurtág, György / Birtwistle, Harrison / Turnage, Mark-Anthony / Knussen, Oliver Introduction The rainbow after the storm Luciano Berion: Where intellect crosses fantasy Hans Werner Henze: Essentially a storyteller Sofia Gubaidulina: "Don't be afraid of being yourself" György Kurtág: A box full of secrets Harrison Birtwistle: From the bowels of the Earth Mark-Anthony Turnage: A poet of the urban landscape Oliver Knussen: A childhood of brilliant whirring ideas