Die Winterreise
Norman Foster (bass-baritone)
Ernest Lush (piano)
Part 1
Before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Tickets may be obtained from Ticket Unit, Broadcasting House, London. W
by George Watson
Coleridge's own friends started it in his lifetime. Crabb Robinson called him ' poor Coleridge ' and even Lamb, who objected, said ' He is a fine fellow in spite of all his faults and weaknesses.' Today we think we have a juster estimate of Coleridge's genius. But ' how strangely the orthodox critical approach . '.. accords with one's general impression of the works themselves.' And from Kathleen Coburn's monumental edition of the Notebooks (of which the first two volumes have just appeared) * a new image of the man emerges.'
Die Winterreise: Part 2
The Way to the Top by A. D. Bonham-Carter T.D. ,
Director of Unilever Limited
George Copeman's recent book Pay and Promotion for Executives has provoked this talk on the outlook for young businessmen in industrial organisations.
Mr. Bonham-Carter joined Unilever twenty-eight years ago as a management trainee and is now Overseas Director, having previously been the Director in charge of Personnel.
The Art of Fugue
Pietro Scarpini (piano)
Contrapuncti 8-11
(four polythematic fugues)
Four Canons
Second of three recitals in which Pietro Scarpini is playing Bach's Art of Fugue.
The last of four programmes of poems by Baudelaire to commemorate the centenary of ' Les Fleurs du Mal'
French readers:
Madeleine Renaud , Jean Vilar and Gerard Philipe
English readers:
Mary Wimbush and Stephen Murray
Translations by Margaret Bottrall Naomi Lewis , Margaret Jourdain and Frances Cornford
Programme arranged and introduced by Rayner Heppenstall
