New series
Roderick Swanston asks nine leading practitioners of early music to put away their treatises and reveal the personal element in their music-making.
1: Sir Charles Mackerras first startled music-lovers in 1959 with his performance of the Fireworks Music using the gargantuan wind band Handel had in mind.
With excerpts from:
Handel fireworks Music
Pro Arte Orchestra (1959) Handel Messiah
Janet Baker (mezzo) Ambrosian Singers
English Chamber Orchestra (1966)
Mozart
Symphony No 39 in E flat Prague Chamber Orchestra (1988)
Mozart Cos! fan tutte
Soloists
Edinburgh Festival Chorus Scottish CO (1988)
Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral) Soloists
Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra (1991)
Producer Nick Morgan Discs