Seven programmes tracing the growth of intimate music-making from 1600 to the present day.
7: The 20th Century
DR FISKE describes how in our time chamber music has been written much more for the concert hall than for amateur music-making in the home; and this has meant increasingly unusual combinations of instruments.
With illustrations from Stravinsky. Ravel, Boulez, Bartok. Janacek, and Shostakovich. Produced by EILEEN BROWNE
(For publication see page 13)
(Starting at this time next week: Teachers as Managers. A new series - The Sounds of Music - begins next Thursday)