Music Feature

Tales from the Stave

Tuesday 20 March 2007 13:30-14:00 (Radio 4 FM)

Repeated: Saturday 24 March 2007 15:30-16:00 (Radio 4 FM)

Frances Fyfield tracks down the stories behind the scores of well-known pieces of music.

A 20th-century Russian classic was thought to have been lost, until very recently. On the day it officially goes on loan to the British Library, conductor Marin Alsop and critic Geoffrey Norris tell its astonishing story, which includes being stored briefly in a carrier bag.

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