1745-1795
Written and produced by Terence TILLER
Philidor was a chess genius of the first rank, and is described by the French musicologist G. E. Bonnet as having shown equal genius in music
Music by Philidor performed by the BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA AND CHORAL SOCIETY conducted by BERNARD KEEFFE with MARGARET FRASER (soprano)
DOROTHY ROBERTSON (soprano) CLIFFORD HUGHES (tenor) DANIEL MCCOSHAN (tenor) and BILL MCCUE (bass) with Rosalind Shanks
Ronald Baddiley , John Cazabon John Chandos , Basil Jones
Eric Phillips , Ralph Truman Gabriel Woolf and comments upon Philidor'j chess by LEONARD BARDEN and HARRY GOLOMBEK