played by Valda Aveling (piano)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
The Taylor Recorder Trio:
Stanley Taylor , Christopher Taylor and Richard Taylor
The Basil Lam Sonata Ensemble :
Patrick Halling (violin) Marjorie Layers (violin)
Terence Weil (cello)
Basil Lam (harpsichord)
Trio Sonata in B minor, for two violins and continuo
The Plainte (The Fairy Queen)
Trio Sonata in D, for two violins and continuo
Chaconne for three recorders and continuo
A report on the Soviet point of view as expressed recently in the Soviet Press and broadcasts to the U.S.S.R.
Compiled by members of the BBC forengn news derpartment
by Jean Anouilh
English version by Denis Cannan
Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Wilfrid Grantham
[Starring] Margaret Ward, Michael Gwynn and Phyllis Neilson-Terry
Other parts played by Heron Carvic and Anthony Creighton
Scene: Paris in the year 1900
Colombe is mature Anouilh, first produced in Paris in 1951, a pièce brillante that is indeed a dazzling example of theatrical pyrotechnics. The eponymous heroine is a flower-girl married to an idealist who happens to be the son of a great actress, Madame Alexandra (as some would say, Sarah Bernhardt, just as her pet dramatist is often taken to be a caricature of Edmond Rostand). When the young man has to go for his military service Colombe goes to work in his mother's theatre, and there she learns that there are more kinds of love than the absolute varety, advocated by her husband and usually practised in poverty and a garret. The play has been much assailed for its bitterness, but I for one cannot understand the meaning of the epilogue of not to admit amongst other things) that once Colombe and Julien were truly in love. (Peter Forster)
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Andrew Cooper)
Conductor, Anithony Bernard
Sinfoma No. 16, in D - Johan Helmich Roman
Flute Concerto - Carl Nielsen (first performance in this country)
Symphony No. 1, in C minor - Mendelssohn
Philip Hope-Wallace reviews the collect on of theatrical criticisms by Sir Max Beerbohm , recently published in a new edition
Ensemble Vocal Marcel Couraud
Conductor, Marcel Couraud
Trois Cantates (Paul Claudel ) Mulhaud
La guerre; La paix; Lee deux cités
