| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Decline Of The Weimar Republic (to 1933) | 20050919 | Donald Macleod surveys Karl Amadeus Hartmann's life and music, to mark the centenary of his birth. He looks first at Hartmann's early influences in inter-war Munich, as Germany descended into crisis. Excerpt of Waxworks: Chaplin-Ford-Trott Christian Gaul, Michael Karus, Egbert Junghanns Members of the German Symphony Orchestra of Berlin Roger Epple (conductor) Jazz toccata and fugue Siegfried Mauser (piano) Burleske Musik Ensemble das neue werk String Quartet No 1 Pellegrini Quartet. |
| 03 | Endless The Sorrow | 20050921 | Donald Macleod explores Hartmann's works composed during the Second World War, during which he became increasingly isolated and fearful. Concerto funèbre Isabelle Faust (violin) Munich Chamber Orchestra Christoph Poppen (conductor) Symphony No 2 Symphonie orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Rafael Kubelik (conductor) Piano Sonata No 1, 1945 (excerpt) Siegfried Mauser (piano). |
| 04 | Reconstruction (1945-53) | 20050922 | In the years following the end of the war, Hartmann was charged with the revitalisation of musical culture in Bavaria. While his Musica Viva concerts attracted a new generation of composers and listeners to contemporary music, Hartmann, dissatisfied with the works he had recently composed, set about revising them. With Donald Macleod. String Quartet No 2 (excerpt) Pellegrini Quartet Symphony No 4 for strings Bamberg Symphonic Orchestra Ingo Metzmacher (conductor) Symphony No 6 (excerpt) Symphonie orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Rafael Kubelik (conductor). |