Music Feature

Tales from the Stave

Tuesday 13 December 2005 13:30-14:00 (Radio 4 FM)

Repeated: Saturday 17 December 2005 15:30-16:00 (Radio 4 FM)

The first of a new series that tracks down the stories behind the scores of well-known pieces of music.

Frances Fyfield goes to the Bodleian Library in Oxford to examine the manuscript of Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture for clues of how the 20-year old composer came to dream it up on a boat to the isle of Mull. With conductor Mark Elder.

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