played by the Virtuoso Chamber Ensemble:
Lionel Bentley (violin) Patrick Hailing (violin) Gwynne Edwards (viola)
Eileen Grainger (viola) Willem de Mont (cello)
George Yates (double-bass)
Edward Walker (flute)
Roger Lord (oboe)
Sidney Fell (clarinet) John Burden (horn)
Andrew McGavin (horn)
Marie Goossens (harp)
Pamela Harrison (wife of Harvey Phillips , the cellist and conductor) has had several of her compositions broadcast, including two cycles of orchestral songs to poems by Baudelaire and Ernest Dowson , and sonatas for viola and cello. The Quintet, one of her earlier works, was written in 1938 and first performed that year at a concert of the Society for the Promotion of New Music; it is tonight receiving its first broadcast performance. It is light-hearted in character and is in five movements: Andante semplice, Tempo di valse, Alia serenata, Presto, and Poco lento. D.C.