2/5. Lover and Loner. Brahms's celebrated love-affair with Clara Schumann was just the first of a string of failed relationships with women. Donald Macleod examines why he never succeeded in his search for true love.
Variations on a theme by Schumann, Op 9 (excerpt) Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Piano Quartet No 3 in C minor, Op 60 (1st mvt) Artur Rubinstein (piano), Guarneri Quartet
Two Motets, Op 29 Danish National Radio Choir Rinaldo (excerpt) Steve Davislim (tenor), Ernst-Senff Choir , Dresden Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson
String Sextet No 2 in G, Op 36 (Scherzo) Kocian Quartet, Members of the Smetana Quartet
Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight