live from Studio 1, Birmingham.
Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Julius Drake (piano) Schumann Three
Romances, Op 94
Schumann, arr Ferguson
Duo, Op 56 No 4
Richard Rodney Bennett
Arabesque (first performance)
Howells Oboe Sonata
8.10 Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Mark Geller , Professor of Semitic Languages at University College,
London, argues that the ban on divorce found in the Gospels, which ran counter to every legal system in the then civilised world, can be traced to the sectarian Judaism of the time.
8.30 Colin Matthews
Night Spell (first performance); Duologue (first broadcast)
Berio Sequenza VII for solo oboe
Schumann, arr
Joachim Abendlied
Schumann Adagio and Alkgro, Op 70