A monthly programme about the making of music.
Tonight: Haydn
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 type-cast 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