Eric Parkin (piano)
BBC Scottish Orchestra (Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conductor, Ian Whyte
Talk by the Rev. H. L. Short
Lecturer in Christian History at Manchester College, Oxford
The part played by the Anabaptists in the Reformation was one of social rebellion and disruptive idealism. Mr. Short, while admitting the suffering and restlessness caused by the movement, maintains nevertheless that ' Anabaptism, with all its violence, was the safety-valve of the sixteenth century.'
Six Canzonets
Sailor's song: The wanderer: Sympathy; She never told her love; Piercing eyes; Content
Peter Pears (tenor)
Benjamin Britten (piano)
compared with an actor's
Robert Graves and Anthony Jacobs with James Reeves
Readings of two poems by Robert Graves , ' Counting the Beats' and ' The Terraced Valley,' have been independently recorded by Robert Graves and Anthony Jacobs. Poet and actor meet to compare their interpretations and discuss them with James Reeves.
by Bertolt Brecht
Alexander Young (tenor)
London String Quartet: Erich Gruenberg. Carl Pini
Keith Cummings , Douglas Cameron
Edmund Rubbra (piano)
Lyric Movement, Op. 24, for string quartet and piano
Five Sonnets (Amoretti). Op. 43, for voice and string quartet:
Lackyng my love; Fresh spring, the herald; Lyke as the culver; What guyle is this!; Mark when she smiles
Second of seven programmes of Rubbra's chamber works