Fourteen illustrated talks by ROGER FISKE
10: Romantic Music-New Colours
The main impetus for the development of the orchestra in the nineteenth century came from the Romantic desire to use music to express ideals and ideas and to tell stories. In the theatre the orchestra became at least as important to the narration as the singers, necessitating a new range of expressive instrumental effects. and even in the concert-hall only conservative composers paid more attention to symphonies than to tone-poems.
Produced by Peter Dodd
First broadcast December 7. 1966