by Josef Bard.
Patricia Hayes reads 'The Tale of a Child'
This is the story of a Hungarian childhood, told in extracts from a child's diary. The year is 1900 and the scene a village on the Danube.
(BBC recording)
To be repeated on Thursday at 10.5
played by the Allegri String Quartet: Eli Goren (violin), James Barton (violin), Patrick Ireland (viola), William Pleeth (cello).
(BBC recording)
First of three programmes of the Rasumovsky quartets.
Op. 59 No. 2: August 11
by Michael Ionides.
From April 1955 to April 1958 Mr. Ionides was a full-time member of the Iraq Development Board, and as a temporary Iraqi was in day-to-day contact with Iraqis of all shades of political persuasion throughout all the crises of the last three years.
(BBC recording)
Alfred Orda (baritone), Josephine Lee (piano)
O stay, my love; The little island; Oh, do not grieve for me; The lilacs; Sorrow in springtime; Christ is risen!; Before my window stands a flow'ring cherry tree; All things depart; The poet; 'Tis time! O prophet come; All once I gladly owned; Morning; Spring waters
(sung in Russian)
A reminiscent talk on the old Moscow Art Theatre by Nicolas Nabokov.
(The recorded broadcast of June 11)
