Helen Pyke and Paul Hamburger
(piano duet)
by Richard Irvine Best
Fifty years ago Synge, an unknown writer, went to Paris from the Aran Islands. Richard Irvine Best gives his reminiscences of Synge at that time and recalls incidents in their subsequent friendship.
Programme edited by W. R. Rodgers
Cambridge University
Madrigal Society
Conductor, Boris Ord
Margaret Hodsdon (virginals)
(Continued in next column)
Some Images in English Romantic Painting by Geoffrey Gnigson
Among the romantic images the speaker considers are the sun, the moon, infinity, the past, sublime nature, and nature primitive and pastoral.
Last of a series of ten talks
An allegory in verse by Kathleen Raine
Gerald Jackson (flute)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader. David McCallum )
Conductor:
Sir Thomas Beecham Bt. ,
Part 1
Edouard Lalo, best known for his Symphonic Espagnole, was a French composer of Spanish descent, for whose music both Debussy and Dukas had a warm admiration. His Symphony in G minor, a delightfully fresh and engaging work, was first performed in Paris in 1887. Jeux was produced in Paris by Diaghilev in 1913, with choreography by Nijinsky. It represented young people playing tennis in a garden at dusk. searching for a lost ball, then making love and quarrelling. For it, Debussy wrote graceful and delicate music, harmonically daring; suggesting the alert movements of the tennis players with ' their back-hand strokes, their volleys and half-volleys.' Harold Rutland
Summer Heat in Paris
Talk by Henri Appia
Part 2
An illustrated talk by Edmund Rubbra on Bach's ' The Well-tempered Keyboard '
Readings to accompany the talk given by Geoffrey Grigson at 7.5
Readers:
Stephen Jack. Lockwood West
Der Wein
Magda Laszlo (soprano)
Symphony Orchestra of Radio Roma
Conducted by Alberto Erede
Professor T. M. Knox. of the University of St. Andrews, reviews a collection of essays selected from Croce's later writings by Raymond Klibanski. translated by E. F. Carritt