Thanks to Flip for discovering this!
DOCUMENTARY: The Making of Music
On: BBC Radio Four (0104)
Date: Tuesday 18th September 2007
Time: 15:45 to 16:00
James Naughtie presents a 30-part series chronicling the historical influences that affected the course of classical music. Mysticism was in fashion at the beginning of the twentieth century. Russian composer Alexander Scriabin spent his musical life trying to depict the mystical in his work. Read by Simon Russell Beale and Matthew Macfadyen.
BBC Making of Music