Documentary Series | Episodes 1-5 | 2022-2023 | ARD [de], BR [de] | Culture, Edutainment, History, Music, Web series | Germany
Main data
| Director | Dag Freyer |
|---|---|
| Written by | Dag Freyer |
| Production | 3B-Produktion |
Project data
| Length of episode | 16-18 min |
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| Episodes from/to | 1-5 |
Brief synopsis
Together with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the young, up-and-coming conductor Erina Yashima takes a journey back in time to 1923, fanning out the musical, as well as historical, context of the era through five key works from the 1920s.
1923: While crises shake Germany and Europe, the age of German radio begins in Berlin. In music, too, we experience a mirror of the times. New media and old traditions, revolution and perseverance, jazz and art music confront each other.
100 years later, Erina Yashima not only presents the compositional contexts and what the details noted in the scores reveal about the time, but also delves deep into the 1920s with the viewer using the contemporary historical archive. In the process, we discover how many points of connection there are to our own time and how close this music still is to us.
Each episode of the five-part series "1923 - Music on the Move" focuses on a key work:
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (1923/24).
Béla Bartók: Dance Suite (1923)
Igor Stravinsky: Octet for wind instruments (1923-1925)
Arthur Honegger: Pacific 231 (1923)
Darius Milhaud: La création du monde (1923)
1923: While crises shake Germany and Europe, the age of German radio begins in Berlin. In music, too, we experience a mirror of the times. New media and old traditions, revolution and perseverance, jazz and art music confront each other.
100 years later, Erina Yashima not only presents the compositional contexts and what the details noted in the scores reveal about the time, but also delves deep into the 1920s with the viewer using the contemporary historical archive. In the process, we discover how many points of connection there are to our own time and how close this music still is to us.
Each episode of the five-part series "1923 - Music on the Move" focuses on a key work:
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (1923/24).
Béla Bartók: Dance Suite (1923)
Igor Stravinsky: Octet for wind instruments (1923-1925)
Arthur Honegger: Pacific 231 (1923)
Darius Milhaud: La création du monde (1923)