Klarinet Archive - Posting 001279.txt from 1997/09

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: BBC does us proud again
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 22:00:46 -0400

Robin:
I missed this - I was away for that weekend without a decent radio. Do you
hear it?
Roger Shilcock

On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 16:20:05 +0100
> From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@-----.uk>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: BBC does us proud again
>
> My appetite has been duly whetted by the trailers for this on BBC
> Radio 3. I enjoy Colin Lawson's discs -- it'll be interesting to hear
> him speak.
>
> Sunday 14 Sep Radio 3 3:15pm
> Spirit of the Age
> Return of the series investigating music and musicians in
> certain periods of history. Brahms was tempted out of
> retirement when he heard the playing of clarinettist Richard
> Muhlfeld, described by Liszt as `biting into a ripe
> peach'. George Pratt talks about the clarinet in the 19th
> century with Colin Lawson, who also performs Brahms's Clarinet
> Sonata in F minor on a copy of Muhlfeld's clarinet. With Peter
> Hill (piano)
>
> R
>
> (extracted from http://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/1997/09/14/radio3.html)
>