Hugh Wood Song-cycle: The Rider Victory (first broadcast performance)
Lutyens Lament of Isis on the death of Osiris (Isis and Osiris) Lutijens A phoenix (first broadcast performance)
Justin Connolly Cinquepaces , for brass quintet
JANE MANNING (soprano) SUSAN MCGAW (piano)
PHILIP JONES BRASS QUINTET Philip Jones (trumpet)
Elgar Howarth (trumpet) Ifor James (horn)
John Iveson (trombone) John Fletcher (tuba)
(Connolly broadcast on 12 September 1969)

The word cinquepaces is a generic title for certain Renaissance dances of which the galliard is perhaps best known. The style of these dances was forceful and athletic: the dancers were usually male, and the sequences were often planned for pairs of soloists. In Mr Connolly's work there are three such dances separated by interludes and enclosed by a prelude and coda. The general character of the work tends towards virtuosity, and to a certain extent the players are not only the five steps of the dance but are themselves the dancers.