Two Strings to a Bow Purcell and Schubert
In the third of eight programmes, Gordon Stewart explores two composers from different centuries and finds remarkable similarities between them. Music for social occasions, chamber music and songs were part of their everyday life as composers and all feature in this programme, which includes Schubert sung by Alfreda Hodgson and Jill Gomez , and Purcell sung by Owen Brannigan ; Norbert Brainin and Lili Kraus give a vintage performance of Schubert's Sonatina in D, D384; the Philomusica of London, director
Thurston Dart , feature in a BBC recording made for Purcell's tercentenary in 1959, playing music written for King Charles Il's 24 violins; and the Gabrieli Quartet perform the B-flat quartet which Schubert wrote when he was 16.
Producer Christine Harwick