Song-cycle: Haugtussa
(The Mountain Maid)
Det syng (Allurement); Veslemoy (The mountain maid); Blabaer-Li (Among the bilberries); Mote (The tryst); Elsk (Love): Killingdans (Kid-dance): Vond Dag (Evil day); Ved Gjaetle-Bekken (The mountain brook)
Gurli Lemoon (soprano) Frederick Stone (piano)
by E. W. Gilbert
Professor of Geography in the University of Oxford
A broadcast version of the inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford last autumn
played by Susi Jeans
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
The Hirsch String Quartet:
Leonard Hirsch (violin) Leonard Dight (violin) Stephen Shingles (viola) Francisco Gabarro (cello)
The Brazilian composer Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez was bom in Rio de Janeiro in 1897 and died there in 1948. His output included an opera Malazarte, a ballet Amaya, and numerous orchestral and chamber works in which themes derived from folk music are treated in a modem manner. Quartet No. 2 dates from 1946.
A group of three talks by R. H. Macmillan of the Department of Engineering,
University of Cambridge
2-Designing Automatic Controls
The designer of an automatic control system wants it to be sensitive, but there is a point at which making it more sensitive leads to its becoming unmanageable. The speaker discusses the cause of this general phenomenon and suggests ways of overcoming it.
Ronald Smith (piano)
Richard Murphy speaks about W. B. Yeats in the light of his recently published letters and the study by Richard Ellman called The Identity of Yeats.
