Scotland has exerted a strong hold on the imagination of many
of our musical greats - Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Haydn, Berlioz, and
Debussy, among others - all the way up to the present day.
Not all of them actually visited Scotland, yet they all wrote music on Scottish subjects (real or imaginary).
In this hour, a sampling of those works, and the surprising stories behind them.
Not all of them actually visited Scotland, yet they all wrote music on Scottish subjects (real or imaginary).
In this hour, a sampling of those works, and the surprising stories behind them.