Oda Slobodskaya (soprano)
Ceinwen Rowlands (soprano)
Rene Soames (tenor)
The Aeolian String Quartet:
Alfred Cave (violin)
Leonard Dight (violin) Watson Forbes (viola)
John Moore (cello)
A talk by Winton Dean on Bizet's attitude to the composition of opera, based on letters and unpublished music.
Willis Grant (organ)
BBC Midland Orchestra
(Leader. Frank Thomas )
Conductor, GiLbert Vinter
From Birmingham Cathedrad
Summer Fare by Desmond Francis Ryan
A Venetian story by Lord Byron
Read by Marius Goring
Production by Joe Burroughs
(The recorded broadcast of June 29)
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano)
Roderick Jones (baritone)
Royal Choral Society
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Work
Last of three programmes by Alan Lomax and Robin Roberts
Produced by Eileen Hots in these programmes the themes of Love, Violence, and Work in American folk song are related to the nature and lives of the people who sing them.
Papillons, Op. 2
Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15 played by Phyllis Sellick (piano)
(Record,ing of broadcast on May 31)
Kay Cicellis talks about the situation of young Greek writers today
The speaker, who is herself Greek, is a contemporary of the generation she describes; but she spent her childhood outside Greece and did not return there until after the war She has written a book of short stories in English.
(The recorded broadcast of August 8)
