An invention for radio by Barry Bermange arranged in conjunction with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop This programme of sounds and voices is an attempt to re-create, in five movements, some sensations of dreaming, running away, falling, landscape. underwater, and colour. All the voices were recorded from life and arranged in a setting of pure electronic sounds. Second broadcast
Suite du deuxieme ton
(Premier livre d'ergue) played by ANDRE MARCHAL organ of Auch Cathedral on a gramophone record
DEREK PARKER introduces a further selection of recordings from the BBC Sound Archives of writers talking about their craft
They examine in this programme the problems of communication and obscurity, and the translation of experience into the forms at poetry and prose.
The voices and opinions include those of: Charles Causley John Smith
William Empson T. S. Eliot
Edith Sitwell
Virginia Woolf Dylan Thomas Gertrude Stein
W. B. Yeats
W. H. Auden
Elizabeth Bowen
Lord Dunsany Hugh Walpole Produced by JOHN POWELL
A monthly programme In which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared
PAUL HAMBURGER discusses the last movement of the Brahms Second Piano Concerto played by Anda, Richter, Schnabel Rubinstein, and others followed by Interlude at 10.53
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