A series of eight programmes Rummaging through an assortment of contemporary documents, Jeremy Siepmann takes an occasionally jaundiced look at the history of conducting, and finds that all is not as it seems.
1: A Dream Come True in which Bach hurls his wig, Handel throws a woman (or tries to), and Lully dispatches himself to his Maker, and all in the name of art.
Readers JOHN WESTBROOK and HUGH DICKSON
Producer RAY ABBOTT. Stereo