Humphrey Burton shares some of the pleasures of his half-century of record collecting, beginning with a personal selection of recent budget CD releases.
10.00 A weekly anthology of favourite 78s and LPs that have been remastered on CD.
Beethoven Overture: Fidelio
Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler
Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Karl Bbhm
11.00 Personal memories of musicians with whom Humphrey Burton has worked closely on television in a career stretching back 40 years.
Today, a musical profile of Benjamin Britten as composer, with excerpts from Noye's Fludde and Peter Grimes as well as The Building of the House and Hymn to St Cecilia. Britten also accompanies tenor Peter Pears in songs by Schubert and some of his own folk-song arrangements.