A weekly review of the arts
This edition is devoted to
Scottish Poetry Today and includes
† ROBERT GARIOCH
NORMAN MACCAIG and EDWIN MORGAN in conversation with GEORGE MACBETH
Grayston Burgess (counter-tenor)
The Purcell Singers
Members of the English Chamber Orchestra
with Viola Tunnard (harpsichord), Ralph Downes (organ)
Conducted by Imogen Holst
Dorothy Dorow (soprano)
Susan Bradshaw (piano and celesta) Cornelius Cardew (guitar) James Blades, Stephen Whittaker, Thomas Blades, Charles Fletcher, Eric Allen, David Johnson, Charles Donaldson (percussion), Margaret Major (viola), Jennifer Ward-Clarke (cello), Stuart Knussen (double-bass)
Conducted by Luigi Nono
Part 1
Monteverdi:
"Laetatus sum"
"Ego flos campi" for counter-tenor and organ
"Christe Redemptor omnium"
Dallapiccola:
"Quattro liriche di Antonio Machado" for soprano and piano
Nono:
"Canciones a Guiomar" for soprano and ensemble (words by Antonio Machado) (first broadcast performance in this country)
(See page 38)
Given before an invited, audience in BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London. Requests for tickets should be addressed to [address removed], enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
A group of four talks 1: How it Developed by G. F. Hudson
Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford
The growing quarrel between Moscow and Peking has been a surprising development of the last two years. In this talk G. F. Hudson looks back on the history of the Soviet and Chinese Communist parties and suggests some lessons to be drawn from it.
Next talk, by John Keep , Lecturer in Russian History at London University: March 7
Part 2
Andrea Gabrieli
Angelus Domini descendit
Giovanni Gabrieli Plaudite
Nono Canciones a Guiomar second performance
Schutz
Herzlich lieb hab' ich for counter-tenor, strings and organ
Ach Herr, Du Schopfer Lobe den Herren
Twelve programmes of verse translations from Homer specially made by contemporary poets
9: Odysseus at his Palace and Irus
Books XVII and XVIII
Translated by TERENCE TILLER Read by DENIS MCCARTHY
Penelope Book XVIII
Translated by REX WARNER Read by GARY WATSON Series devised by Louis MacNeice
Produced by ANTHONY THWAITE Third broadcast
' Eurycleia ' translated by Donald Davie and ' Preliminaries to Battle ' and ' The Bou; ' translated by Anthony Thwaite : March 6
