(The Village Soothsayer) An intermezzo by Jean-Jacques Rousseau sung in the 1766 translation of Dr Burney and prepared for this broadcast by CORDON STEWART Manis born free and everywhere he is in chains. (ROUSSEAU in the Social Contract, 1762)
The pleasure of affecting so many amiable people moved me to tears.
(ROUSSEAU on the first night of Le devin, 1752)
GILLIAN STEEL (cello)
RICHARD HICKOX SINGERS AND ORCHESTRA, leader SIMON STANDAGF. , conducted by RICHARD HICKOX