Max Rostal (violin)
BBC Northern Orchestra
(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Prologue, Variations, and Finale
Reizenstein
Symphony No. 2, in B minor Borodin
The work by Franz Reizenstein exists in two versions, one with piano, the other with orchestra; each was separately conceived for its own medium. It is dedicated to Max Rostai, who performed for the first tune, with piano, in 1938. This is the first performance of the orchestral version
Three poems from a recently published collection by Robert Gittings
'The Explorers '
'The Grave of W. H. Hudson ' Famous Meeting—1806'
Readers: David Duncan
Duncan Mclntyre , William Devlin
Partita No. 3, in A minor Partita No. 4. in D played by George Malcolm (harpsichord)
The second of six programmes
Talk by A. J. P. Taylor on the 100th anniversary of Bright's speech in the House of Commons when the Crimean War was declared
This is a shortened version of the lecture given last December at the John Rylands Library, Manchester.
The Pro Musica Antiqua Ensemble
Director, Safford Cape
Allegez-moy; Je ne me puis tenir d'aimer; El grillo; La" déploration de Johannes Ockeghem; Basiez-moy on gramophone records
A talk by Geoffrey Tyson on the problems of finance for underdeveloped territories
Mr. Tyson spent many years in India as editor of Capital, a British financial newspaper in Calcutta. He also represented British commercial interests in rhe former Indian Central Legislative Assembly.
by Soeren Aabye Kierkegaard
Arranged by Rayner Heppenstall from the Lowrie translation of ' Stages on Life's Way '
The Aeolian String Quartet:
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Trevor Williams (violin)
Watson Forbes (viola)
John Moore (cello)
Illustrated talk by Martin Cooper
