played by Ravi Shankar (sitar) with Chatur Lal (tabla)
First of three programmes
A lecture by W. H. Auden
Professor of Poetry
In the University of Oxford
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Serenade, Op. 24
Marsch; Menuett; Variationen: Sonnet Nr. 217 von Petrarca; Tanzscene; Lied (ohne Worte); Finale: Im Marschtempo des ersten Satzes
Virtuoso Chamber Ensemble:
Sidney Fell (clarinet)
Wilfred Hambleton (bass clarinet)
David Martin (violin)
Gwynne Edwards (viola)
Willem de Mont (cello) with Hugo D'Alton (mandolin)
Julian Bream (guitar)
Thomas Hemsley (baritone)
Conducted by Ren6 Leibowitz
This performance has been arranged in collaboration with the Music Section of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. The programme is the second of three in which chamber works by Schoenberg are being played.
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The Persistent Peasant
A talk by Manya Harari , who has paid two visits to Russia in the past year, and gives some impressions of rural life there.
A comic opera in one act
Libretto by Josef Stolba
English version by Vida Harford
Music by Dvorak
BBC Midland Chorus
BBC Midland Orchestra
(Leader, James Hutcheon )
Conducted BYLEO WURMSER Produced by Mark Lubbock
The action takes place in a small town in Bohemia in the latter part of the 19th century.
by Sacheverell Sitwell
In the course of his recent travels In Eastern countries Sacheverell Sitwell saw two of the greatest and most beautiful religious buildings of the world: the Mosque of the Ommaiyades in Damascus, with its famous mosaics only recently uncovered, and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15 played by Celia Arieli (piano)
