MICHAEL THOMAS discusses some of the stylistic characteristics of German keyboard music in the seventeenth century and plays the clavichord, harpsichord, and organ.
The music includes a clavichord suite by Matthias Wcckmann and his variation* Die licblichen Blicke.
by Martin Wells
Demonstrator in Zoology, University of Cambridge
The characteristics of animals in space strip-cartoons are sadly predictable. They could be so much more terrifying if their authors applied a little zoology-and imagination.
: second broadcast
Michael Langdon (bass) with Josephine Lee (piano)
Wolf
Three Michelangelo Songs
Wohl denk' ich oft
Alles endet was entstehet
Fiihlt meine Seele das ersehnte Licht?
Loeice Susses Begrabnis Der Nock
Landgraf Philipp der GrossmllUga
A radio play by Dieter WELLERSHOFF translated from the German by Martina Mayne
In this Hiirspiel, which has been widely acclaimed in Germany, Dieter Wellershoff describes through a series of interior monologues a bitter crisis in the mutual relations of a man and his mistress. with Hugh Burden as The Man and Martina Mayne as The Woman
Production by CHRISTOPHER Syeces
To be repeated on September 20 followed by an interlude at 7.65
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Leaders. Michel Schwalb6 and Hugo Kolberg
Conducted by Herbert von Karajan
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh Part 1
Story by ERNEST HEMINGWAY read by William Sylvester
' The tall boy with a very pale face who was to be a lawyer had been a lieutenant of Arditi and had three medals of the sort we each had only one of. He had lived a very long time with death and was a little detached. We were all a little detached, and there was nothing that held us together except that we met every afternoon at the hospital.....*
' After the Storm 1: September 21
Part 2
Two programmes of field recordings collected in the U.S.A. by Paul Oliver
1: Blues is a Feeling
Including the voices of Jasper Love , Boogie Woogie Red, Lil Son Jackson , Wade Walton , Robert Curtis Smith , Mance Lipscombe , Willie Thomas , James Butch Cage , Blind Arvella Grey , Roosevelt Sykes , Brother John Sellers, Henry Townsend , Will Shade, John Lee Hooker , J. B. Lenoir
Produced by Anthony Smith
: second broadcast
Piano Trio No. 1, in D minor
Jacques Thibaud (violin) Pablo Casals (cello)
Alfred Cortot (piano) on a gramophone record