Frederick Grinke (violin)
BBC Scottish Orchestra
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conductor, Ian Whyte
Two talks by Sir George Stuart Robertson , Q.c.
2-Opera Libretti at their Worst
Sit George Stuart Robertson , who has been a keen opera-goer for nearly seventy years, discusses some of the least happy examples of the librettist's art that he has come across, more particularly in English translations.
1530-1630
4-Madrigals and Instrumental Music
The Deller Consort:
April Canielo (soprano)
Eileen McLoughlin (soprano) Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Alexander Young (tenor)
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
Maurice Bevan (baritone) Norman Platt (baritone) with John Whitworth (counter-tenor)
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Stanley Taylor (recorder)
Christopher Taylor (recorder)
Desmond Dupr é (viola da gambe)
Henry Revell (viola da gamba)
Robert Donington (viola da gamba)
Francis Baines (double-bass) Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
Geraint Jones (organ)
Fourth of six programmes arranged by Jeremy Noble
A monthly review of cultural and political trends in the U.S.S.R.
The Experiment in Central Asia
Talk by Geoffrey Wheeler
The speaker is Director of the Central Asian Research Centre, which works in association with the Soviet Affairs Study Group in St. Antony's College, Oxford.
Suite No. 6. in C minor for unaccompanied cello played by Pablo Casals on gramophone records
Talk by W. Bridges-Adams
W. Bridges-Adams recalls the theatrical productions of Max Reinhardt and gives some personal recollections of his distinctive temperament and technique. Reinhardt was, in the speaker's opinion, 'a dictator content to operate strictly, faithfully, and with genius, in the realm of make-believe.'
The meeting of Dante and Beatrice
A reading of cantos 28-33 of Dante's Purgatorio, in the translation by Laurence Binyon
Produced by Peter Duval Smith
played by Liza Fuchsova and Paul Hamburger
Talk by Isaac Rosenfeld
The speaker, who teaches at the University of Minnesota, suggests that there is a connection between American imaginative writing and the philosophical pragmatism of William James and John Dewey.
Mirages
Cygne sur 1'eau; Reflets darts l'eau:
Jardin nocturne; Danseuse sung by Hugues Cuenod (tenor) with Ernest Lus h (piano)
