Barry Rose (organ)
Pro Musica Sacra
Conductor, Bruno Turner
From the Church of St. George the Martyr, Queen Square, London
David Smith talks to David Sylvester
David Smith is generally considered to be the leading American sculptor of the generation of the abstract expressionist painters. This conversation took place in New York, where David Sylvester also recorded interviews with some of these painters (such as Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline) which will be broadcast as a series later this year.
Yfrah Neaman (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Norman Del Mar
Part 2
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Short story by Ted Hughes
Read by the author
4 The horse was in the middle of the clearing. It might have been running to get out of the terrific rain except that it was coming straight for him, scattering clay and stones, with an immensely supple and powerful motion...
Arias written for Aloyisia Lange
Vorrei spiegarvi, o Dio (K.418) Nehmt meinen Dank (K.383) Popoli di Tessaglia (K.316)
Rita Streich (soprano)
Bavarian Radio Orchestra
Conducted by Charles Mackerras on a gramophone record