A movementsfrom a wdnd octet and a work in four movements for wind ronet played by the Dennis Briain Wind Ensemble
Leonard Brain (oboe)
Sidney sutcliffe (oboe.)
Stephen Waters (clarinet) Archie Jacob (clarinet)
Ronald Waller (bassoon) Edward Wilson (bassoon)
Kenneth Cooper (double-bassoon) Ba,rry Tuckrwell (honn) Andrew McGabin (horn)
The composer and title of each work will be announced after the performance.
by Geoffrey Drayton
After 130 years of almost unbroken d.ctatorship, Venezuela is trying to make democracy work; but as Mr. Drayton, Editor of the Petroleum
Times, found on a recent visit, the success of the experiment is at least uncertain.
by Guy Compton
with Michael Hordern and Barbara Mitchell
Major Basset's residence, where the Major is attended by the faithful Agnes Gurd, is an elderly Mostyn Seven which he found some years ago, unclaimed and uninhabited on a lay-by. Of course, ever since he moved in he has intended it only as a temporary residence, though in the meanwhile they have both tried to make it as much of a home as possible.
Aeolian String-Quartet
Sydney Humphreys, Robert Cooper, Watson Forbes, Derek Simpson
Onomonte String Trio Perry Hart (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Bruno Schrecker (cello)
Seventh in a series of concerts including the complete string chamber music of Shostakovich and Schoenberg
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.
(BBC recording: second broadcast)