The second of five programmes in which Piers Burton-Page explores the wealth of smaller-scale operas created by 20th-century composers. Today two of Darius Milhaud 's operas-minutes frame
Paul Hindemith 's Hin undZuruck, his
"sketch with music" from 1927, and - anticipating the forthcoming BBC Martinu weekend - a survey of Bohuslav Martinu 's extensive chamber-opera output.