Radio Plays: musicians
(excluding composers)
The Other Wittgenstein....2002
NOT A DRAMA...but worth including here....
(R4, 1330, 14 May 02) ....was an excellent biography of
the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, brother of the famous
philosopher. He lost his right arm in the First World War,
and it seemed that his career was over, but he developed his
left hand technique to such a degree that he was able to
comission some of the world's best composers to write music
which he performed all over the world. Pete Morgan wrote and
presented the programme.
RELATED VARIATIONS....1990
by Douglas Slater.
Directed by Peter Kavanagh.
Broadcast 3rd April 1990, Radio 3.
An ex-virtuoso pianist listens nervously to a performance of
Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme of Corelli that he must
critique. More is revealed than is usual during a master class.
Speaker - Ian Mckellen;
pianist - Graham Scott.
THOMAS BEECHAM*....c1985?
by Ned Sherrin and Caryl Brahms. I think mid-80s. No more
information at the time of writing, though I listened to the recording a couple of years ago. Not sure that the title
was "Thomas Beecham", either.
Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
Asterisked plays known to exist in VRPCC collections
