Talk by D. M. MacKinnon

Kyla Greenbaum (piano)
Eight variations on the tbeme 'Une flevre brulante ' by Gretry Andante favori in F
Rondo a capriccio in G, Op. 129 Six Bagatelles, Op. 126

by W. S. Merwin
(Sunday's recorded broadcast

Julian Bream (guitar)
London String Trio:
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
Watson Forbes (viola) Vivian Joseph (cello)
Jack Brymer (clarinet)

Alan Pryce-Jones attempts to assess the strength and weakness of Wagner's Ring as a composite expression of all the arts

Glagolitic Mass
Kyrie; Gloria: Credo;
Sanctus; Agnus Dei
Eleanor Houston (soprano)
Joan Gray (contralto) Julius Patzak (tenor)
Frederick Dalberg (bass)
Melville Cook (organ)
Bradford Festival
Choral Society
(Chorus-Master, George Stead )
Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Reginald Whitehouse )
Conductor, Maurice Miles
From the Town Hall, Leeds

A Rhondda reminiscence by Gwyn Thomas
Produced by Elwyn Evans
This programme recalls that 'long, idle, sunlit summer' of 1926, the year of the General Strike. 'By the beginning of June,' says Gwyn Thomas, 'the hills were bulging with a clearer loveliness than they had ever had before. And then, out of the quietness and golden light, a new excitement was born. The carnivals and the jazz bands...'

English, French, and Italian Music of the Fourteenth Century
Transcribed by Gilbert Reaney and edited and introduced by Denis Stevens
Myra Verney (soprano)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
Helen Gaskell (cor anglads) John Alexandra (bassoon)
Maxwell Ward (viola)
George Malcolm (regal) Gilbert Webster (tabor)
Ars Nova wasthe title of a treatise by Philippe de Vitry , a fourteenth-century composer and theorist who was responsible for certain improvements in musical notation. Greater precision in the notation of rapid passages was brought about by rhe introduction of the minim, and rhe use of red and black notes made possible for the first time the accurate indication of subtle and complex rhythms D. S.