Elizabeth Hongen (contralto) with David Martin (violin)
Neville Marriner (violin) Keith Cummings (viola)
Eileen Grainger (viola)
Harold Beck (cello)
James W. Merrett (double bass)
Thurston Dart (harpsichord) Conducted by Trevor Harvey

An Experiment in Biography by Laurence Kitchin
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
Part 1

Variations on an original theme,
Op. 21 No. 1 played by Backhaus (piano) on gramophone records

Part 2

Claudio Arrau (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Part 1

again presents
Sir Joseph Halma and his friends
Production by Tom Ronald

Part 2

An unrehearsed discussion between Denis Johnston and Frank O'Connor

Arranged and conducted by Nadia Boulanger
Flore Wendt (soprano)
Marie-Therese Holley (contralto)
Doda Conrad (bass) Gareth Morris (flute) Arthur Hedges (flute)
Terance Macdonagh (oboe)
Leonard Brain (oboe)
Frederick Thurston (clarinet)
Archia Camden (bassoon) Marie Korchinska (harp)
Olive Zorian (violin)
Marjorie Lavers (violin)
Jean Stewart (viola) Norina Semino (cello)
J. Edward Merrett (double bass)
Nadia Boulanger
(harpsichord and piano)
The programme includes music by twelfth- and fourteenth-century composers, and by Galilei. Rameau, Boismortier, Mozart, Stravinsky. Lilt Boulanger, and Jean Françaix