As Director of Music at Morley College in the 1940s, Tippett promoted regular series of adventurous and wide-ranging concerts. In this re-creation there are works by Gibbons, Bartok and Seiber;
ALFRED DELLER Singing Purcell; and Tippett conducting Tallis's motet Spem in alium; together with works by Tippett himself - the Concerto for double string orchestra
(SCO/THE COMPOSER) and Boyhood's End (With PETER PEARS).
Tippett also talks about his early career
and his experiences as a wartime conscientious objector (in 1973).