The Art of Fugue prepared for performance by LEONARD ISAACS
Members of the ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Directed from the harpsichord by GEORGE MALCOLM
Part 1
Contrapunctl I-VI: Canon by Inversion and augmentation; Contrapunctus VII; Canon at the octave: Contrapunctus VIII
Recording of the Thursday invitation Concert on January 3
REYNER BANHAM talks about Alphonse Mucha , minor master of art nouveau, who was recently the subject of three London exhibitions Second broadcast
The Art of Fugue
Part 2
Canon at the twelfth; Contrapunctus IX; Canon at the tenth: Contrapunctus X: Contrapunctus XII (rectus and Inversus): Contrapunctus XIII (rectus and inversus); Contrapunctus XI
The second of two illustrated talks in which FRANK HARRISON introduces music from the Eton Choirbook, which he has edited for performance
The illustrations are sung by the Schola Potyphonica (director, Henry Washington) and include Payrfax's Regale Aiagniftcat , Horwood's Gaude flore virginale, Wylkynson's Apostles* Creed, and music by Cornyshe.
A selection of unpublished poems chosen and introduced by Dorothy Baker
Contributors: Francis Berry, Jack Bevan, Michael Hamburger, Christopher Hampton, Elizabeth Jennings, Richard Kell, W.S. Merwin, Sylvia Plath, Peter Redgrove
t(piano)
La Locandiera by Carlo Goldoni translated by CLIFFORD BAX with Geraldine McEwan
Max Adrian and Colin Gordon
The action takes place at Mirandolina's inn in Florence, 1751. Music selected from records of the works of Vivaldi
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX Third broadcast
Images played by the SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET on a gramophone record
