A fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes by Bernard Shaw
A (flute, Winifred Gaskell )
Produced by Donald McWhinnie
Part 1
Desiree. MacEwan (piano)
Prelude and Fugue in E minor, Op.
35 No. 1
Variations Sérieuses. Op. 54
Letcht und luftig (Sieben CharakterstUcke. Op. 7 No. 7)
Part 2
'John Bull 's Other Island': Friday. See also Tuesday at 11.15 and Wednesday at 11.0
Elwyn Jones writes in this Issue
Suzanne Danco (soprano)
Charles Splnks (organ)
The Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader. Maurice Clare )
Conductor, Boyd Neel
A talk in French
Introduced by John Summerson
M. Le Corbusier recently visited London in connection with this year's International Congress of Architects. During his visit he went to the South Bank and to an exhibition recently held under the title ' Growth and Form.' Starting from the impressions he received, he talks about some of his own ideas and beliefs.
(The recorded broadcast of Aug. 19)
Alec Robertson introduces
La Messe de Nostre Dame by Guillaume de Machaut
(Prepared for performance by Denis Stevens )
The Deller Consort:
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
John Whitworth (counter-tenor)
Alexander Young (tenor)
The Schola Polyphondca
An Instrumental Ensemble :
Stanley Taylor (treble recorder)
Helen Gaskell (oboe d'amore)
Richard Newton (bassoon)
James Richens (bassoon)
William Teskey (trombone)
Jack Pinches (trombone) Harry Danks (treble viol)
Desmond Dupre ' (tenor viol)
Gilbert Webster (carillon)
Jack Lees , jnr. (glockenspiel)
Directed by Henry Washington
by Stravinsky
Trebles and altos of the Choir of Hampstead Parish Church
(Conductor, Martindale Sidwell ) BBC Singers (men's voices)
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
A Wind Ensemble :
Terence MacDonagh (oboe)
Natalie James (oboe)
Peter Newbury (cor anglais)
John Alexandra (bassoon) John Shamlian (bassoon) George Eskdale (trumpet) Eric Bravington (trumpet)
Sidney Langston (trombone)
Harold Nash (trombone)
Godfrey Kneller (trombone)
Conducted by Herbert Murrill
Edwin Muir suggests that in this age of science and analytical thinking there has been a decline of the imagination as we find it expressed in the arts.
(The recorded broadcast of May 2)