Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano)
Nina Milkina (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Hugh Maguire )
Conducted by Basil Cameron
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1
Mozart—Schubert
A Case of Ancestor Worship
CARL AMERY , the Bavarian novelist and critic, finds the political scene in Western Germany as puzzling to Germans as it is to outsiders. His approach to an explanation follows an unusual line.
(The recorded broadcast of April 20)
Part 2
by Vernon Watkins with an introduction by the author
Production by Douglas Cleverdon
The Living:
William Squire , Rachel Thomas
Haydn Jones , Jeffrey Segal and William Eedle
The Dead:
Aubrey Richards , Basil Jones
Mari Lwyd-the Grey Mare , symbolised by a horse's skull hung with ribbons-is by tradition in Wales carried from house to house on New Year's Eve by a party of singers and impromptu poets.
In this dramatic ballad it is the Dead who return, carrying the Man Lwyd, and the Living who, warming themselves at the fire, refuse entrance to the lonely Dead.
Das wohltemperierte Clavier
Forty-eight Preludes and Fugues
B flat; B flat minor (Book 1) B flat: B flat minor (Book 2) played by Maurice Cole (piano)
Eleventh of twelve recitals