The Wigmore Ensemble Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Terence McDonagh (oboe) Jack Brvmer (clarinet) Granville Jones (violin) Frederick Riddle (viola) Anthony Pini (cello)
Wilfrid Parry (piano)
The Ambrosian Singers
Conducted by John Carewe PART 1
To be given before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London.

Today some avant garde composers are leaving the ultimate form of their music to the performer. Is the result a new freedom or a new chaos?
The young English composer, Peter Maxwell Davies , and the music critics, Jeremy Noble and Peter Stadlen , discuss the principle and practice of Indeterminacy

PART 2
Quatuor pour Ie fin du temps

A Fragment of Autobiography by EDA LORD adapted from her book published last spring and recalling a childhood spent in the American west and south-west fifty years ago with Hilda Kriseman. Marcella Spencer. Mavis Villiers , Robert Ayres and Marvin Kane
Production by Christopher HOLME