by David Nathan, based on Henri Murger's "Scenes de la vie de boheme"

Bohemia is a district of Paris bordered on the north by cold, on the west by hunger, on the south by love and on the east by hope. It is a stage in artistic life, a prologue to the Academy, the hospital or the morgue.
Murger's book inspired the two operas of Puccini and Leoncavallo entitled La boheme.
Music by David Timson (piano) With Gustave Clarkson (Viola) Michael Hirst (flute)
(Stereo) (R)
(2 October: 'The Immortal Bohemian,' variations on Puccini's life and music)