JOSEF SUK (violin)
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KAREL ANCERL
Recording from the 1963 Salzburg Festival: made available by courtesy of Oesterretchischer Rundfunk
1874-1952
A tribute to the first President of the Israeli Republic
Compiled and narrated by DAVID TUTAEV from recorded interviews with people who knew him, including
MRS. VERA WEIZMANN
MR. MOSHE SHARETT
LORD BOOTHBY
MR. DAVID BEN GURION
MR. ARTHUR LOURIE
SIR HAROLD NICOLSON Produced by CHRISTOPHER SYKES
Edmund Kurtz (cello)
Ernest Lush (piano)
Alberto Ginastera , outstanding among the younger generation of composers in Argentina, was born In 1916. Pampeana, inspired by the vast treeless plain of South America, was written in 1950 and is dedicated to Edmund Kurtz.
Ernst Krenek, born in Vienna in 1900 of a Czech family, came under the Influence of Schoenberg and has since adopted the principles of twelve-note technique. His Cello Suite, written in 1942, has five movements.
A selection of recent and unpublished verse arranged and produced by Terence Tiller
Contributors: Jack Bevan, Michael Dennis Browne, Zulfikar Ghose, Denis Goacher, Madge Hales, G W. Ireland, Hubert Moore, Peter Redgrove, Paul Roche, Vernon Scannell, Jon Silkin, Gillian Stone, Lydia Wickham, Raymond Wilson and David Wright
Readers: Penelope Lee , Duncan Carse and David Spenser
followed by interlude at 10.50