(organ)
Bach
Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C Choral Prelude : Wachet auf!
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
From St. Mark's, North Audley Street, London
London Chamber Players
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
Oda Slobodskaya (soprano)
John Wills (piano)
Daniel George talks about recent American books
Repeat tomorrow at 7.10
Haugtussa Song Cycle sung by Astra Desmond (contralto)
(accompanist, Gerald Moore )
Grieg wrote many of his best songs on texts in Landsmaal, the literary language of Norway based on Old Norse, which was revived in the nineteenth century and adopted by the Norwegian nationalist poets. Chief among them was Arne Garborg, whose volume of poems ' Haugtussa ' (' The Troll Maiden ') made an instantaneous appeal to Grieg's sense of fantasy and his gift for suggesting in music the Norwegian scene.
Astra Desmond, who sings the song cycle in the original Landsmaal, has made a special study of Grieg's songs.
A talk on this painter and his Conversations ' with Hazlitt and James Ward , by Jack Simmons. Reader, Loekwood West
Aeolian Quartet:
Max Salpeter (violin), Colin Sauer (violin), Watson Forbes (viola), John Moore (cello)
George Parker (baritone)
Talk by Theodora Bosanquet.
Songs from Goethe's
' Wilhelm Meister ' on gramophone records
