featuring The Melos Quartet Introduced by Michael Berkeley In the second of six visits to this popular festival, BBC2 joins Radio 3 for a live simultaneous broadcast of a concert from the Assembly
Rooms.The Melos Quartet of Stuttgart are among the world's finest chamber ensembles, with a special reputation for the Viennese classics. Tonight they play
Schubert String Quintet in c with Hans Haublein
Schubert's String Quintet is his last completed chamber work; a passionate and heroic outpouring of melody, written a few months before his tragically early death at the age of 31. The programme begins with a further tour of some of the festival's more unusual events.
Director RODNEY GREENBERG
4 simultaneous broadcast with Radio 3. Viewers with stereo Radio 3 may wish to turn off TV sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away. Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative