1969: Is ROSEMARY BROWN Channelling the GREAT COMPOSERS? | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive

A report by Peter Dorling on the remarkable case of Mrs Rosemary Brown, a London housewife and spiritualist, who claims to be receiving new music from famous composers of the past, among them Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin and Schubert.

Though not a trained musician herself, Mrs Brown is beginning to puzzle musical experts, thanks to her detailed manuscripts and credible-sounding compositions. Could they really be the result of a spiritual collaboration with long dead composers, or is Rosemary Brown simply a far more talented musician than she claims?

Taking part in the documentary are: composer Richard Rodney Bennett, concert pianist and musicologist Denis Matthews, pianist and writer Hephzibah Menuhin, and Dr Malcolm Troup of the Guildhall School of Music, all of whom give their views on Mrs Brown's extraordinary claims.

Clip taken from Mrs Brown and the Great Composers, originally broadcast on BBC One, 17 June, 1969.

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