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Workshop: Haydn

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

A biography in music written and narrated by H. C. Robbins Landon.
The most famous composer of his age, universally loved and admired, Haydn is now a musician's musician, largely ignored by the general public and typecast as periwigged Papa Haydn.
Workshop invited the world's leading Haydn expert to set the record right.

With the English Chamber Orchestra
Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted by Charles Mackerras
Raymond Leppard (harpsichord)
First transmission on Sept. 14, 1964

Contributors

Writer/narrator:
H. C. Robbins Landon
Musicians:
The English Chamber Orchestra
[Orchestra] leader:
Emanuel Hurwitz
[Orchestra] conducted by:
Charles Mackerras
Harpsichordist:
Raymond Leppard
Production Assistant:
Herbert Chappell
Designer:
David Jones
Director:
Barrie Gavin
Producer:
Humphrey Burton
Source: Radio Times

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