The Essay - Music on the Brink: Paris.
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Foreign Correspondent Hugh Schofield reimagines the French capital of Maurice Ravel, the Ballets Russes and Henri Matisse - but which politically suffered continuing angst over its neighbour across the Rhine: Germany.
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