A weekly review of the arts This edition consists of two interviews
Alexander Calder , the American constructor of mobiles, talks to Bryan Robertson about his current exhibition of sculpture at the Tate Gallery Arthur Adamov, the Russian-born dramatist whose play Spring 71 is on at the Unity Theatre, talks to K. D. Smith
Introduced by George MacBetb
baritone with Dalton Baldwin piano
La bonne chanson (Fauré)
Une sainte en son aureole Puisque I'aube grandit
La lune blanche luit dans les bois J'allais par des chemins perfides
J'ai presque peur, en vérité Avant que tu ne t'en ailles
Done ce sera par un clair jour d ete N'cst-ce pas?
L'hiver a cesse"
Le promenoir des deux amants
(Debussy)
Aupres de cette grotte sombre
Crois mon conscil. chere Climene Je tremble en voyant ton visage on gramophone records
in conversation with Jonathan Miller
In this recording of a morning agreeably spent on the sailing barge Dorothy, Jonathan Miller seeks to extract from this trio of backward-looking eccentrics their views on the contemporary world.
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
Sonata in E flat major Haydn Society No. 62 played by William Glock
Last in a series of weekly recitals including all Haydn's fifty-two piano sonatas.
BERNARD HERRMANN talks to Robert Layton about this great American figure who combined the life of a business executive and a composer, and whose musicoften foreshadowed much later developments in both European and American music.
: second broadcast
Melos Ensemble
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)
William Waterhouse (bassoon) David Mason (trumpet)
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Ivor McMahon (violin) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Terence Weil (cello)