by G. M. CARSTAIRS
Professor of Psychological Medicine in the University of Edinburgh 2: Healing Ceremonies in Primitive Societies

Francis Poulenc
Memorial Concert
PETER PEARS (tenor)
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (piano) THE Melos Ensemble
Richard Adeney (flute) Peter Graeme (oboe)
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)
William Waterhouse (bassoon) Neill Sanders (horn)
Lamar Crowson (piano)
From the Workmen's Club, Thorpeness
Part 1
Elegy for horn and piano
8.25* Sonata for clarinet and bassoon
8.35* Song Cycle: Tel jour telle nuit
Bonne journée; une mine coquille vide; le front comme un drapeau perdu; une roulotte couverte en tuiles; a toutes brides; une herbe pauvre; ie n'ai envie que de t'aimer: figure de force brulante et farouche; nous avons fait, la nuit
8.52* Sonata for oboe and piano

without the buzz-buzz by THOMAS WALTON
Entertaining scenarios from Parts theatres of the early nineteenth century reveal that, to satisfy popular taste, not only the Bible but Shakespeare was widely pillaged for the creation of wordless or almost wordless mimed dramas with spectacular effects and scenery.

Francis Poulenc
Memorial Concert
Part 2
Sextet for piano and wind

Compiled and introduced by A. L. LLOYD
1: 1906-1918
The Years of Exploration
For the most part single-handed, and travelling through difficult country with primitive and cumbersome equipment, Bela Bartok made sound recordings of some ten thousand folk tunes, mainly East European. This programme. the first of two, describes his prodigious work in the field, and includes recollections by colleagues, and by peasants whom he recorded.
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON

Sonata in E minor (S.1034) played by KARLHEINZ ZÖLLER (flute) Hugo RUF (harpsichord)
WOLFGANG BOETTCHER (cello) on a gramophone record

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