given on Thursday, March 1, 1962
GERALD ENGLISH (tenor)
WIGMORE ENSEMBLE
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Terence MacDonagh (oboe) Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Gwydion Brooke (bassoon) Alan Civil (horn)
Granville Jones (viola) Frederick Riddle (viola) Anthony Pini (cello)
Wilfrid Parry (piano)
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello) with Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Part 1
Roberto Gerhard composed Seven Haiku in 1922-23, shortly before going to study with Schoenberg. The haiku are not Japanese: they were written in French by the Catalan poet Josep-Maria Junoy who, while not adhering strictly to the classical seventeen-syllable form, retains the essence of the haiku-the power of vividly suggesting image and ambience with the greatest economy of means.