rehearses and conducts
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Wilfred Lehmann Part 1:
REHEARSAL AMD PERFORMANCE Of
1391-1465
A selection made and introduced by Rayner Heppenstall Read by Alan Wheatley
It seems not to be generally known that the greatest French poet of his time also wrote nearly 7,000 lines of verse in English, including 121 ballades and almost as many roundels, together with longer pieces. He lived in this country for twenty-five years, having been taken prisoner at AgincourL
Part 2: PERFORMANCE OF with repeated Scherzo as performed in the original version
Anthony Powell author of The Music of Time sequence talks to Kingsley Amis
Basing their conversation on Mr. Powell's sequence, augmented recently by the publication of Casanovars Chinese Restaurant, the two novelists talk informally about problems of continuity and construction-as well as content-which arise in the writing of extended works of fiction.
: second broadcast
Alan Harverson (organ)
Elizabethan Singers
Conductor, Louis Halsey first broadcast in this country
From St. Gabriel's, Cricklewood