Leaving Home – Orchestral Music In The 20th Century – Vol. 6 – After The Wake DVD – The City Of Birmingham Symp Orch. , Simon Rattle

‘After The Wake’ considers the musical legacy of two old men who had dominated the first part of the 20th century – Schoenberg and Strauss – and looks at the post-war generation of young Europeans such as Boulez and Stockhausen who were determined to erase the recent past and build a completely new music for a new Europe. Simon Rattle conducts the City Of Birmingham Orchestra in performances of: 1.Strauss: Four Last Songs 2.Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw 3.Britten: Serenade for