BBC Radio 4 : Five and the Fascists
BBC Radio 4 broadcasted "Five and the Fascists" on 5 , September.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mdyyf
In 1929 five leading European conductors - Toscanini, Klemperer, Furtwangler, Erich Kleiber and Bruno Walter - met at the Berlin Festival at the height of the Weimar Republic, shortly before Hitler took power. Robert Giddings explores the confrontation between creativity and Fascism through the decisions made by these five musical giants.
This program is not available on BBC site now.
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