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Tunes For Tyrants: Music And Power With Suzy Klein | BBC Four 9 October 9:00pm

Tunes For Tyrants: Music And Power With Suzy Klein | BBC Four 9 October 9:00pm

Episode 2 Dictatorship. In the second episode of this fascinating series exploring the politics of music, Suzy Klein reaches the 1930s, when the totalitarian dictators sought to use and abuse music for ideological ends. This time the lives of the composers are in the spotlight – and we’re in the company of the greats: Richard Strauss, Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev, who produced some of…

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Tunes For Tyrants: Music & Power With Suzy Klein | BBC Four 2 October 9:00pm

Tunes For Tyrants: Music & Power With Suzy Klein | BBC Four 2 October 9:00pm

In this ambitious new series, Suzy Klein explores how the power of music to rouse our emotions gave it a crucial role – from the Russian revolution and the dictatorships of Hitler and Stalin to WW2. In the first episode, Suzy Klein takes us back to the volatile years following the Russian Revolution and WW1. Very different times call for very different culture, and music became a fertile…

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Ivan was recently featured on BBC Radio 3's series Piano A-Z.

You can hear him talk about left-hand repertoire here.

The Godowsky CD was recently featured on In Tune. Presenter Suzy Klein called the playing breathtaking.

Many thanks to Freya Hellier and Suzy Klein of BBC Radio 3 for their interest in Leopold Godowsky's music.