Piers Burton-Page introduces a concert from the Dome in Brighton, East Sussex, celebrating this year's anniversaries of Schubert's birth and Brahms's death.
Jean Rigby (mezzo),
Leonidas Kavakos (violin),
Robert Cohen (cello), Brighton
Festival Chorus, BBC Philharmonic, conductor Matthias Bamert
Brahms Nanie ; Double Concerto in A minor
8.50 The Last Straw
By Graeme Fife , read by Edward de Souza. Vienna, 1828: Franz Schubert's exquisite chamber pieces just cannot compete with the current box-office smash - a troupe of dancing camels. Something drastic is needed.
9.10 Schubert Incidental music:
Rosamunde