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Composer of the Week: Richard Strauss

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In the first of this week's programmes focusing on Strauss's music from the musician's perspective, orchestral leader Hugh Bean talks to Stephen Johnson about the sympathetic if demanding way Strauss wrote for stringed instruments.

Suite: Le bourgeois gentilhomme (excerpts) - Philharmonia/Wolfgang Sawallisch
Violin Sonata in E flat - Jascha Heifetz (violin) Brooks Smith (piano)
Don Juan - Chicago SO/Fritz Reiner

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Contributors

Presenter:
Stephen Johnson
Guest:
Hugh Bean
Producer:
Sarah Devonald
Source: Radio Times

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