Sunday Morning - When in Doubt, Cut it Out

With Iain Burnside. Iain is joined by consultant surgeon David Melville, to look at music and medicine. The programme includes music by Bach, whose death some attribute to the same doctor who unsuccessfully operated on Handel; Haydn, whose body was snatched and decapitated in the interests of phrenology; and Brahms, a great friend of pioneering surgeon Billroth. Cole Porter : The Physician/Nymph Errant Gertrude Lawrence (soprano) Pearl GEMM0111, Tr 23 Dur 3m3s Beethoven: Duet for viola and cello, WoO 32 (Eyeglass Duo) Lawrence Power (viola) Paul Watkins (cello) Hyperion 67745, Tr 5 Dur: 9m9s Debussy: Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's Corner) Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano) DG 4153722, Tr 7 Dur: 2m12s Debussy: Poissons d'or (Images - Book 2) Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano) DG 4153722, Tr T6 Dur: 4m2s Gounod: Qu'ils sont doux (Le medecin malgre lui) Lucien Fugere (baritone) Symposium 1125SYM, Tr 16 Dur: 3m45s Berlioz: Overture (The Corsair) Dresden Staatskapelle Colin Davis (conductor) RCA 09026687902, Tr 6 Dur: 8m44s Haydn: Mermaid's Song, H XXVIa 25 Lisa Milne (soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano) Hyperion CDA67174, Tr T16 Dur: 3m3s Bach: Erbarme Dich (St Matthew Passion, BWV244) Kai Wessel (countertenor) Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Ton Koopman (conductor) Erato 2292 45814 2 Cd2, Tr 15 Dur: 7m Brahms: String Quartet in C minor, Op 51 No 1 Melos Quartet DG 4136702 Cd3, Tr 1 Dur: 10m40s Peter Christie: Doctors Instant Sunshine EMC 3137, Tr 16 Dur: 2m28s Honegger: Pastorale d'ete Orchestre Nationale d'ORTF Jean Martinon (conductor) EMI 63944, Tr T2 Dur: 7m20s Adams: The Wound dresser Sanford Sylvan (baritone) Orchestra of St Luke's John Adams (conductor) Nonesuch 9792182, Tr T1 Dur: 19m6s Bach arr. Myra Hess: Jesu joy of Man's Desiring Leon Fleischer (piano) Vanguard ATMCD 1551, Tr 1 Dur: 3m43s Borodin: Symphony No 2 in B minor (excerpt) Dresdner Philharmonie Michel Plasson (conductor) Berlin Classics 0010922 BC, Tr 6 Dur: 5m45s.