by Peter Townsend
Lecturer in Social Administration at the London School of Economics (: second broadcast)
Twentieth-Century Ensemble
(Leader, Hans Geiger )
Conductor,
Hans-Hubert Schonzeler
Matyas Seiber talks about his new Violin Sonata, commissioned by the BBC (first performance July 7)
Alexander Goehr talks about his Four Songs from the Japanese (first performance July 4)
Both performances will be broadcast (Third) from the Cheltenham Festival
Allegri String Quartet:
Eli Goren , James Barton
Patrick Ireland, William Pleeth
First of five programmes each including a quartet by Haydn and a quartet by a 20th-century composer
by W.B. Yeats
[starring] Kathleen Michael with Mary O'Farrell and Jack MacGowran
(BBC recording: third broadcast)
followed by an interlude at 8.50
Fifteen Romances (Op. 33) from Ludwig Tieck 's Liebesgeschichte der schbnen Magelone und des Grafen Peter von Provence sung by Dietrich Fischer-DIeskau
(baritone)
With Joerg Demus (piano) on a gramophone record
Narrator, Alvar Lidell
Two talks by George Steiner
In this first talk George Steiner describes the manner in which mathematics and the symbol-languages of the sciences-have since the 17th century come to dominate most of our intellectual experience.
' The Legend of Good Women ' by Geoffrey Chaucer Excerpts from the poem read by Gary Watson
First of a series of programme*