Fairy Tales
Saturday 10 July 2004 14:00-15:00 (Radio 3)
The literature of music contains some vivid examples of story telling in music. Charles is joined by an audience of school students for a workshop, recorded last year in the Ulster Hall Belfast, in which he tells the musical stories behind some familiar and less well known fairy tales, including items from Carl Nielsen's incidental music for Aladdin, Ravel's ballet Mother Goose and Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretel. The music is performed by the Ulster Orchestra and the Choir of Methodist College
