Wigmore Ensemble: Geoffrey Gilbert (flute), Terence MacDonagh (oboe), Jack Brymer (clarinet), Gwydion Brooke (bassoon), Dennis Brain (horn), Jean Pougnet (violin), Thomas Carter (violin), Frederick Riddle (viola), Anthony Pini (cello), Eugene Cruft (double-bass), Maria Korchinska (harp), Wilfrid Parry (piano)
Three talks on ecology by Charles S. Elton, F.R.S., Director of the Bureau of Animal Population, University of Oxford
The speaker discusses a field of study in which some problems are 'so recondite that even professional mathematicians cannot yet solve the required equations.'
Sonata in B flat, Op. 107
played by Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Cyril Preedy (piano)
Last of three programmes of clarinet sonatas by Reger
by Graham Hough, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge
Byron and D.H. Lawrence both found in self-exile the freedom which their genius required: both ventured into the unknown and pursued the destiny of the individual soul where the outer restraints of society are removed. But there, Mr. Hough argues, the similarity between the two writers ends. For Lawrence, the modern mental traveller, being better equipped, was able not only to venture into the unknown but to bring back reliable reports. Mr. Hough ends by suggesting that neither kind of exploration is going to be possible very much longer.
(BBC recording)
This is a broadcast version of last year's Byron Foundation Lecture at the University of Nottingham.
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Cor de Groot (piano)
Amsterdam
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conductor, Eduard van Beinum
Part 1
by E. Michael Mendelson, Ph.D.
In the Guatemalan village of Santiago Atitlan three ways of life can be represented by three religious symbols. Dr. Mendelson speaks about the consequences of having a blended religion for these Maya Indians of Central America.
\ Part 2
A sequence of poems illustrating the part played by the great house in English life and the obligations of ownership.
Read by lain Fletcher
with Gerald Moore (piano) on gramophone records
Murmelndes Lüftchen (Jensen)
Schwarze Rosen (Sibelius)
Wiegenlied (Richard Strauss)
In dem Schatten meiner Locken; Elfenlied (Hugo Wolf)
O, du liebs Angeli; Gsatzli (Swiai folk songs, arr. Gund)
