PETER GRAEME (oboe)
Louis LEFF (clarinet)
MARTIN GATT (bassoon)
ALAN CIVIL (horn)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted by MEREDITH DAVIES
From the Town Hall
Part 1
Is a change inevitable? t by HUGH THOMAS
Mr. Thomas examines the present power structure in Spain and speaks on the possibilities for change: will Spain join Europe? What are the chances of a monarchy? Is an economic miracle' a possibility;
Part 2
Bennett's Nocturnes for chamber orchestra, commissioned by the Cheltenham Festival, is in three movements, each bearing a text chosen by the composer to suggest a mood rather than to provide a programme. Donne's Elegie XVI ' 0 my love is slaine ' prefaces the Appassionato opening movement; ' All night by the rose I lay ' (anon., 14th century) the central Dolce amabile ; and a quotation from Sir Thomas Browne 's ' Urn Burial ' the closing Dolente.
by Bernie Bishop
A man's life lived in his own way
Music composed by CARL DAVIS
David Knight performs a monologue set in Bath, New York, in which the speaker, going from bar to bar, muses about a unique character, Eddie; and traces back Eddie's life, as well as his own, in New York's Lower East Side
Music conducted by THE COMPOSER
Solo trumpet, KENNY BAKER f Produced by H. B. FORTUIN
David Knight is in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ' at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London
HEINZ REHFUSS (baritone)
ERNEST LusH (piano)
Fêtes galantes (Book 2):
Les ingénus Le faune
Colloque sentimental
Le promenoir des deux amants:
La grotte
Crois mon consell chère Climene Je tremble en voyant ton visage
Trois Ballades de Francois Villon:
Ballade de Villon a s'amye
Ballade que felt Villon a la requeste de sa mere pour prier
Nostre-Dame Ballade des femmes de Paris t Second broadcast