Quintet in A major played by CLIFFORD CURZON (piano)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC QUARTET Willi Boskovsky (violin) Otto Strasser (violin) Rudolf Streng (viola)
Robert Scheiwein (cello) on a gramophone record
A conversation with Henry Mayhew from Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor (1851)
Adapted and produced by COLIN THOMAS
the German pianist gives the second in a series of programmes including music by Dallapiccola 6 21*6.34'
Dallapiccola playing the piano in two of his violin works and two sets of his songs: August 9
A discussion on the aesthetic of Bertolt Brecht between MARTIN ESSLIN RICHARD FINDLATER and WILLIAM GASKILL in the light of the recently published selection of theoretical writings Brecht on Theatre: the Development of an Aesthetic translated. with notes, by John Willett
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
LESLIE PEARSON (harpsichord continuo and piano) Conducted by Paul Sacher
Part 1
REYNER BANHAM , who this year visited both the annual convention of the American Institute of Architects in St. Louis, and the International Design Congress in Aspen. Colorado, considers the stirrings of professional conscience over public affairs that were manifested at both. He suggests that Aspen might become for industrial designers what the Pugwash conferences have become for scientists.
Part 2
An appreciation of Wilfred Owen
1893-1918 by PATRIC DICKINSON who narrates the programme The excerpts from
Owen's poetry and prose read by STEPHEN MURRAY
Others taking part:
Derek Birch, Denys Hawthorne Carleton Hobbs, Godfrey Kenton, Denis McCarthy, Lewis Stringer and Geoffrey Wincott
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS
A revised version of the programme first broadcast in 1953 Third broadcast
A performance of Britten's War Requiem: Tuesday in the Home Service and on BBC-2
JENNIFER VYVYAN (soprano) THE BASIL LAM ENSEMBLE Patrick Halling (violin) Peter Hailing (cello)
Basil Lam (harpsichord)
Second broadcast