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Sound Stories Aesthetes

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With Peggy Reynolds. Oscar Wilde 's style, his clothes and his epigrams made him the high priest of aesthetic doctrine, but his amusing plays also had their serious side, and Wilde's life-lived-as-art eventually led to his being condemned by society - he was prosecuted for gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labour. With excerpts from: Mozart The Magic Flute
London Classical Players, conductor Roger Norrington Sullivan Patience
Pro Arte Orchestra. conductor Malcolm Sargent
Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis
Benjamin An Ideal Husband National Philharmonic, conductor Bernard Hermann Producer Tony Sellors

Contributors

Unknown:
Peggy Reynolds.
Unknown:
Oscar Wilde
Conductor:
Roger Norrington
Conductor:
Malcolm Sargent
Conductor:
Vaughan Williams
Conductor:
Andrew Davis
Conductor:
Bernard Hermann
Producer:
Tony Sellors
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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