Movements for piano and orchestra played by Charles Rosen with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer on a gramophone record
Recordings of the rejected and their helpers
Introduced by PHILIP O'CONNOR
It is generally understood that the problem of vagrancy resolves itself into one of rehabilitation; but how justified are the assumptions that t. the society of self-respecting employees is totally superior, and 2. that vagrants wish to be rehabilitated into it?
What self, in fact, merits respect? At the tail end of a religious tradition vagrants may still unconsciously pose a basically ethical question.
Produced by DAVID THOMSON
: second broadcast followed by an interlude at 8.55
An opera by Henry PURCELL
An illustrated talk by H. C. Robbins Landon
H. C. Robbins Landon discusses the growth of Haydn's keyboard style during the fifty years covered by the sonatas.
The illustrations, specially recorded by Charles Spinks , include the first performance in modem times of a newly discovered sonata movement and a fragment of the lost D major piano sonata.
: second broadcast