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 Favourite 78s and LPs that have been remastered on CD including: Brahms Liebeslieder , Op 52
Barbara Bonney (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Kurt Streit (tenor), Olaf Bar (baritone), Bengt Forsberg and Helmut Deutsch (pianos)
Beethoven Symphony No 7 in A
NBC SO, conductor Arturo Toscanini
11.00 Personal memories of musicians with whom Humphrey Burton has worked closely on television in a career stretching back 40 years. Today, Leonard Bernstein as composer, conductor and pianist, with recordings of his Facsimile,
Britten's A Time There Was with the New York Philharmonic, and Mahler songs.
Producer Chris Marshall