A twelfth-century music drama performed by the New York Pro Musica with boy choristers of the Church of the Transfiguration. New York directed by Noah Greenberg on a gramophone record
Presented by Denis Stevens
Cost (singing in Latin): and The manuscript of the music for this play is in the British Museum. It has been transcribed by Fr. Rembert Weaklando.s.B., and scored for voices and instruments by Noah Greenberg, whose version was given a stage production by the New York Pro Musica in 1958. This gramophone record was previously broadcast in the Home Service in January.
Yehudi Menuhin
(violino piccolo and violin)
Janet Craxton (oboe) Michael Dobson (oboe) Richard Morgan (oboe)
Archie Camden (bassoon)
Barry Tuckwell (horn)
James Quaife (horn)
Continuo:
Kinloch Anderson (harpsichord) and Eugene Cruft (double-bass)
Festival Chamber Orchestra
(Leader,Robert Masters )
DIRECTED BY YEHUDI MENUHIN
Part 1
Brandenburg Concertos
No. 3, in G; No. 6, in B flat
by Leonard Woolf
The first of two reminiscent talks
Part 2
Brandenburg Concerto
No. 1. in F
by A. J. P. Taylor
Fellow of Magdalen College. Oxford
This is a version, shortened for broadcasting, of the Raleigh Lecture delivered at the British Academy earlier this year.