Bread winning
In todav's selection of records Jeremy Siepmann looks at the occupational side of life with the help of a barber (from
Seville), two blacksmiths (courtesy of Brahms and Spohr). a ploughman and a railway-worker. The art of salesmanship is given new meaning by Orlando Gibbons: Mozart and Stravinsky visit highly contrasting entrepreneurs and the programme ends in a bucolic vein with a performance of Bach's Peasant Cantata.