Lara Feigel
Michael Berkeley's guest is cultural historian Lara Feigel. Her selections include music from Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Strauss as well as a song from Marlene Dietrich.
Lara Feigel made her name writing about the relationship between life, love, literature and history in London during the Second World War with her wonderfully titled and highly praised book The Love Charm of Bombs.
Her latest, The Bitter Taste of Victory, returns to the 1940s and looks at British and American attempts to impose culture from abroad in the hope of 'civilising' post-war Germany.
She talks to Michael Berkeley about what it was in her family history that drew her to writing about the Second World War, the perils of romanticizing it, and the emotional toll of engaging with such a distressing period of history.
As well as Bach and Beethoven, Lara chooses music which reflects preoccupations and personalities in post-war Germany - Furtw盲ngler's recording of Tristan und Isolde, a song from Marlene Dietrich, and music by Richard Strauss.
Producer: Jane Greenwood
A Loftus Production for 91热爆 Radio 3.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
English Suite no.2 in A minor (Prelude)
Performer: Murray Perahia. -
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no.7 in A major, Op.92 (2nd mvt: Larghetto)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber. -
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Richard Wagner
O sink hernieder (Tristan und Isolde)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Wilhelm Furtw盲ngler. Singer: Kirsten Flagstad. -
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Friedrich Hollaender
Illusions
Singer: Marlene Dietrich. -
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Claude Debussy
Violin Sonata (1st mvt: Allegro moderato)
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin. Performer: Benjamin Britten. -
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Richard Strauss
Morgen, Op.24 no.7
Singer: Jessye Norman. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Kurt Masur. -
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto no.1 in F (1st mvt: Allegro)
Performer: Richard Egarr. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
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