Arnold Richardson (organ)
Wind and Percussion Sections of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Bryan Fairfax
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
The works by David Dorward and Duane Davidson were prizewinners in the recent competition organised by the Wind Music Society.
by ROBERT PINGET translated and adapted for radio by Barbara Bray with Robert Eddison and Vivienne Chatterton
Clope is a hermit who lives in a booth surrounded by the hustle and bustle of a large mainline railway station and earns his living as a fortune-teller. Everyone around him is about to start on some great journey, only Clope is convinced that there is no sense in trying to get away : he is the still centre in a world of mad striving. His story is both funny and tragic-a poetic image of the artist in our time.
Cast
Produced by JOHN GIBSON
: second broadcast
Grayston Burgess (counter-tenor)
John Whitworth (counter-tenor) Ian Partridge (tenor)
Pro Musica Sacra with instrumental ensemble Conductor, Bruno Turner
Alan Harverson (organ)
The Elizabethan Singers Conductor, Louis Halsey
Part 1 PRO MUSICA SACRA
by W. A. Ward
Living in the age of Darwinism Walter Pater met the everlasting flux with the eternal moment. Mr. Ward discusses this centre of Pater's faith in terms of his most famous essay.
Part 2
Illustrated talk by Arnold Goldsbrough
During the whole of the nineteenth century Bach's keyboard music was played on the piano without question and with little concern for his own instruments or the kind of interpretation they demanded.
Arnold Goldsbrough has for many years performed Bach's music on the harpsichord, but he defends the use of the piano with due regard to the considerations he advances in this talk.
: second broadcast