A conversation between
Yehudi Menuhin and Nicolas Nabokov on the future of improvisation in music
London Baroque Ensemble
Conductor, Karl Haas
Sonatas for seven wind instruments
(C. P. E. Bach)
Serenade in D minor. Op. 44 for ten wind instruments, cello, and double-bass (Dvorak) on gramophone records
by John McGrath
Egypt-the Canal Zone: 1953 Produced by Alan Hancock
(: third broadcast) followed by an interlude at 8.0
Act 2
Mozart's Die Zauberflöte':
August 14
reading five poems by JOHN KEATS
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy: Ode to psyche Ode to a Nightingale: To Autumn
Introduced by Derek Birch
The recordings of these poems were made by Robert Donat on various occasions over a number of years and are now collected for the first time.
London Czech Trio: Jack Rothstein (violin)
Karel Horitz (cello)
Lisa Marketta (piano)
by Desmond Stewart
Living in the Middle East has brought Mr Stewart into contact with many Arab writers, not only established figures but the younger, more violent talents that have emerged since the Revolution. He describes the current Arab literary icene and gives his impressions ot writers he has known.
Four Preludes and Fugues
(Das wohltemperierte Clavier)
E flat; E flat minor (Book 1) E flat; E flat minor (Book 2) played by Maurice Cole (piano)