The first of five programmes this week in which Michael Hall explores the changing sound of the recorded orchestra. In this programme, he introduces recordings by the Amsterdam Concertgebouw
Orchestra of Strauss, Debussy, Bruckner, Mahler, Mozart and Dvorak conducted by Willem Mengelberg , Eduard van Beinum, Bernard Haitink ,
Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Riccardo Chailly. Producer Ray Abbott