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The music of Our Classical Century

Over the course of the Our Classical Century season, 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3鈥檚 Essential Classics has explored 100 key musical moments. Use this page to browse and listen to recordings as we count down through a century of exciting, inspirational and rule busting music.

Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

A dream of a piece that has proved one of the century's most popular classical works.
Igor Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite

How could Stravinsky and his fellow artists make art meaningful again after the war?
George Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow

Butterworth died in 1916 aged 31. His is among the most beautiful music of the war years.
Gustav Holst: The Planets

Holst鈥檚 masterpiece was written during WWI. But could it ever be performed in wartime?

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The music of Our Classical Century

Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Igor Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite

George Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow

Gustav Holst: The Planets