The Academic Muse
A return to school and college celebrated (?) by Christopher Hogwood with record requests from the under-20s; including Brahms's Academic Festival Overture and a series of lessons in music by John Blow (Venus and Adonis). Telemann (The Schoolmaster), Britten (Cantata Academica) and Monteverdi (Orfeo). plus a dissertation on the origins of the nickname of Haydn's Symphony No 55, in E flat.