The BBC won first prize in this international contest for radio programmes, in competition with many communist countries. The theme was ' national musical cultures ' particularly of the 19th and 20th centuries. The BBC entry was
The English Renascence
The 1880s saw the beginning of the revival in musical creativity in this land which has continued unabated to the present day. This programme remembers the pioneers of the renascence as well as celebrating its high peaks.
Music by Parry. Stanford, Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten is introduced by Norman Shelley and Gary Watson
IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) with the NASH ENSEMBLE
ST MARGARET'S WESTMINSTER
SINGERS, organist ALASTAIR ROSS conductor RICHARD HICKOX Technical presentation JOHN RUSHBY-SMITH
Tape editor TONY KIME
Written and produced by ELAINE PADMOHE