Schumann, Ireland, Caspar, Furtsenau, Mozart

Hugo Wood discusses the symphonies of Roberto Gerhard, Jan Smaczny talks about Dvorak's opera Rusaika, and Patricia Carroll with a specially composed Music Weekly polka

Philharmonia Orchestra play Hindemith, Strauss, Beethoven

Janacek, Beethoven

Opera by Smetana, sung in Czech. Interval readings 3.35-3.45, 4.25-4.30

New poem by Geoffrey Hill

Greig, Trond Kverno, Ggil Hovland, Sverre Bergh

Adapted by Peter Barnes from "Lo Fingido Verdadero," by Lope de Vega and starring Denis Quilley as the Roman actor/martyr Genesius, and Timothy West as Emperor Diocletian

Part 1

Poetry readings

Part 2

Percy Grainger