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Bureaucrats and Bourgeois in Soviet Society
A talk by Hugh Seton-Watson , Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
(The recorded broadcast of May 29)
Ellen Ballon (piano)
BBC Scottish Orchestra (Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conductor, Ian Whyte
Heitor Villa-Lobos, the Brazilian composer, wrote his First Piano Concerto in 1945 for the Canadian pianist Ellen Ballon, shortly after meeting her in New York. There are four movements, in which the composer's characteristic ebullience and fondness for cross-rhythms are well displayed; the work, too, gives scope for brilliant pianism. The third movement is a passacagha, and towards the end of the rondo finale a version of the main theme of the first movement is heard again on the brats.
Francis Haskell , Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, speaks about the letters written by members of the European Resistance condemned to death by the Nazis.
Winifred Roberts (violin)
The Geraint Jones
Singers and Orchestra
(Leader, Winifred Roberts )
Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
Alan Harverson (organ)
Conductor, Geraint Jones
Anthem: Why do the heathen...Purcell
(John Whitworth , counter-tenor)
(David Price , tenor) (Owen Grundy. bass) Anthem: My heart is inditing.Purcell From St. Gabriel's Church, Cricklewood
Second of six programmes including verse-anthems, motets, and odes by Purcell
by Lope de Vega
A new translation by Roy Campbell
Adapted by Mollie Greenhalgh
Music composed by Arthur Oldham
The Narrator: Peter Howell
The Court: The inhabitants of Fuenteovejuna:
The songs sung by Edward Byles and John Carolan with Desmond Dupré (guitar)
Production by Frederick Bradnum
During the interval in the performance of the play (9.35-9.45 approx.)I,
Sonatas by Peres and Alber* Ruggero Gerlin (harpsichord) on gramophone records
String Quartet in B flat, Op. 67 played by the Italian Quartet on gramophone records
Talk by Robert Fumeaux Jordan
