by Moura Lympany

New Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Sargent : Overture, Patrie (My Country) (Bizet)
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Erich Kleiber : Waltz, Du und Du (Die Fledermaus) (The Bat) (Johann Strauss )
Paris Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Selmar Meyrowitz : Bourree fantasque (Chabrier, orch. Mottl)

at the BBC Theatre Organ

Leader, Daniel Melsa
Conducted by Clifton Helliwell
The BBC Singers
Anthony Collins (viola)
Flos Campi is a work that fully represents Vaughan Williams'sliighly individual style. It was first performed at Queen's Hall in 1925, and four years later at Geneva in the International Festival for Contemporary Music. Each of the six sections into which the work is divided is prefaced by a quotation from the ' Song of Solomon', ', indicating the mood of the music. There are no words sung ; the voices of the choir are used as part of the instrumentation and are made to sing or hum with closed lips on vowel sounds only.

The BBC Midland Orchestra
Leader, Alfred Cave
Conducted by Leslie Heward
In Delius's ' A Village Romeo and Juliet' Sali and Viedi are the Romeo and Juliet who have suffered in their love for each other from the bitter enmity of their parents. They meet again after a cruel separation, and, determined to have one day of pleasure together, they go to a neighbouring fair, happy in each other's company. There they are recognised and worried by importunate questions. Anxious to be fully alone, they leave the fair and walk to the Paradise Garden, which is an inn, formerly the manor house of a ruined country estate. The lovely music describes their walk, idyllic, but saturated with a sense of impending tragedy.