From the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh.

The Brindisi Quartet brings together two Parisian masterpieces and magical miniatures by two distinguished visitors to Paris - Stravinsky and Copland, whose youthful tribute to Gabriel Faure already sounds like the music of America.

Stravinsky Concertino

Faure String Quartet in E minor, Op 121

8.25 Brilliant Creatures
The fourth of six interval features about women who were great patrons of the arts this century.
Gertrude and Leo Stein created a fabulous salon in the Rue Fleurus, supported Picasso, and offered an example to other would-be patrons of the arts. Yet when she came to write her Autobiography of Alice B Toklas, Gertrude claimed most of the credit for these achievements. Brenda Wineapple, author of a new book on the Steins, explains why. Reader Joanna Tope.

8.45 Copland Rondino on the Name of Gabriel Faure

Ravel String Quartet in F