Discovering Music

The Classical Symphony

Saturday 19 November 2005 14:00-15:00 (Radio 3)

Charles Hazlewood and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra explore the key ingredients of the classical symphony, for which Joseph Haydn was predominantly responsible. They use as their example Haydn's Symphony No 60 in C (Il Distratto) - a six movement work from 1774 fashioned from incidental music which he had composed for an adaptation of a French play - Le Distrait, by Francois Regnard. Part of a workshop session designed to complement A-Level and Scottish Highers studies.

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