Ralph Holmes (violin)
Alan Bush (piano)
Edna lies (piano)
Aeolian String Quartet: Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Trevor Williams (violin)
Watson Forbes (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
Lyric Interlude, Op. 26, for violin with piano
-Variations, Nocturne, and Finale on an English sea-song. Op. 46, for piano
Dialectic, Op. 15, for string quartet
This is the first of two programmes of chamber music by Alan Bush The Lyric
Interlude was written in 1944 and is dedicated to the composers wife; Variations, Nocturne, and finale, written three years ago, is based on an eighteenth-century whaleman's song Blow ye winds'; Dialectic, an earlier work, was first performed in Prague in 1935.
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This edition includes:
Ian Fletcher on the Third Programme production of Etherege's The Man of Mode
Director and solo cello,
Antonio Janigro
Jelka Stanic (violin)
by Pauline Bentinck
This story is based on a Tasmanian bush yarn A man leaves his homestead to tell some trees, then finds himself trapped and alone. This predicament soon takes on the elements of a moral fable. Through horror comes tolerance.
Read by Trader Faulkner
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor played by Geraint Jones (organ)
From St. Peter's Italian Church,
Clerkenwell Road, London