Tom Service introduces Stravinsky's Three Japanese Lyrics, miniatures first performed in Paris in 1914 a year after the composer's Rite of Spring.

Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard from an enthusiastic concert goer in Paris just before the outbreak of WW1 which looks at the musical temperature of the time. Written by Dr Caroline Potter

Bethany Bell, the BBC's Vienna Correspondent, evokes both the public face of Austria-Hungary's capital and the simmering tensions which underlay its multi-national empire on the eve of the greatest conflagration the world had yet seen.

Tom Service with Webern's Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano Op.11. Followed by music which would have been heard at a concert in Vienna with the Konzertverein orchestra in February 1914.

Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard set in Vienna just before the outbreak of WW1 that asks whether Vienna really was the musical capital of Europe. Written by Professor David Wyn Jones

Writer Pat Barker is fascinated by the First World War. Here she selects her music choices. From Private Passions.

Part of Radio 3's Music on the Brink.