The second of two programmes of international folk song, guitar, and banjo music currently popular in America Produced by D. G. BRIDSON Second broadcast
† FERNANDE KAESER (piano)
Bach
English Suite No. 2, in A minor
Schubert
Valses sentimentales (D.779) Valses nobles (D.969)
A Renaissance Controversy by JOHN Hale Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford
The speaker uses the sixteenth-century debate over the retention of the long bow to show how, in the history of war, even the deciding of a severely technical issue may call for an understanding of the society and ideas of the time. Second broadcast
† THEA KING (clarinet)
English String QUARTET Nona Liddell (violin)
Eleanor St. George (violin) Marjorie Lempfert (viola) Helen Just (cello)
by ANTON EHRENZWEIG
The speaker believes that any work of art or science must remain an open, partly indeterminate structure, ready to serve an unpredictable variety of interpretation. followed by interlude at 7.55
Missa Solemnis
GALINA VISHNEVSKAYA (soprano)
MARGA HÖFFGEN (mezzo-soprano)
RICHARD Lewis (tenor)
FREDERICK GUTHRIE (bass)
LEEDS FESTIVAL CHORUS
Chorus-Master, George Stead
London SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Erich Gruenberg
Conducted by LORIN MAAZEL
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
See page 14
A poem for three voices by Sylvia Plath
Soliloquies of three women in a maternity ward
AMADEO BALDOVINO (cello) Third broadcast