Evenings in the Orchestra by Hector Berlioz. Berlioz often travelled across Europe with an orchestra, and the tales told on these travels were recorded by him and published in 1852. Tim Pigott-Smith reads a selection of these stories.
The scene is the orchestra pit of a provincial opera house, the cast the conductor and musicians. Translated by C R Fortescue Abridged by Davena Briggs Producer Tracy Neale