Quintette a vent francais: Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute)
Pierre Pierlot (oboe)
Jacques Lancelot (clarinet)
Gilbert Coursier (horn) Paul Hongne (bassoon) Francis Poulene (piano)
Suite d'apres Corrette (Milhaud) Suite francaise (Poulenc)
La Cheminee du Roi René (Milhaud) on gramophone records
A Christmas Oratorio by W. H. Auden
Music composed by Matyas Seiber
Production by Frederick Bradnum Orchestra and the Dorian Singers conducted by Matyas Seiber
(Continued in next column)
Francis Loring (baritone)
London Chamber Singers
London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Andrew Cooper )
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
Part 1
Talk by Nikolaus Pevsner
Slade Professor of Fine Art in the University of Cambridge
Some reflections on French history, manners, worship, and architecture, occasioned by Dr. Pevsner's recent visit to the church of Ste. Foy at Conques, which was buiiit in the eleventh century when ' France was not yet France.'
Part 2
A story of Moscow in 18-by N. S. Leskov
Translated from the Russian by R. Norman
Read by Martin Starkie
by Bedrich Janacek
Bach
Christmas Chorale Preludes (Orgelbuchlein)
Puer natus in Bethlehem; Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ; Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich; Vom Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her; Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schaar
Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Christmas Chorale Preludes (Orgelbuchlein)
In dulci jubilo; Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich; Jesu, meine Freude; Christum wir sollen loben schon; Wir Christenleut'
From Saint Petri, Malmo
(Recording made available by courtesy of RadiotjÃÂänst, Malmo)
Last of seven recitals, each including one of Bach's major organ works