A Pastoral
Music by HANDEL
Words by John Gay
The Ambrosian Singers
The English Chamber Orchestra Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz Charles Spinks
(harpsichord continuo)
Hubert Dawkes (organ continuo) Conducted by ARNOLD GOLDSBROUOH PART 1
Given before an invited audience in the Goldsmiths' Hall, London, by courtesy of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and in collaboration with the City Music Society
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Panurge 'was a wicked, lewd rogue, a cozener, drinker, roysterer, rover, and a very dissolute and debauched fellow, otherwise, and in all matters else, the best and most virtuous man in the world.'
Rabelais's description of the qualities of Panurge, Pantagruel's life-long friend.
Thomas Urquhart's version read by Frank Pettingell

PART 2

Vernon Scannell introduces a selection of his own poems read by himself dnd Hugh Dickson
John Heath Stubbs : February 5

played by Rafael Druian with John Simms (piano)
Sonata No. 3 in A minor
(In the Rumanian popular style) (Enesco)
Sonata (Ravel) on gramophone records