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Choral hymns from the Rig Veda for female voices and harp: Hymn to the Dawn; Hymn to the Waters; Hymn To Vena; Hymn of the Travellers.

Sung by Helena Cook, Ethel Williams, Grace Field, Mary Pollock, Constance Richards, Daisy Neal, Winifred Payne, May Element, with Rhiannon James (harp). Conducted by W.K. Stanton

Gustav Holst was for many years strongly influenced by Eastern lore; he made a study of Sanskrit so that he might translate for himself passages from old writings which appealed to him. In 1907 and 1908 he made a great impression on the musical world with two sets of Vedic hymns, which were recognised at once as profoundly sincere translations into Western music of a beautiful side of Eastern mysticism.

Contributors

Singer:
Helena Cook
Singer:
Ethel Williams
Singer:
Grace Field
Singer:
Mary Pollock
Singer:
Constance Richards
Singer:
Daisy Neal
Singer:
Winifred Payne
Singer:
May Element
Harpist:
Rhiannon James
Conductor:
W.K. Stanton
Composer:
Gustav Holst

from a college chapel
Antiphon : Veni, sancte Spiritus (Byrd) Versicles and Responses (Tomkins) Psalm 119, vv. 145-152
First Lesson : Wisdom 7, w. 22-30 ; 9, v. 1
Magnificat (Darke in F)
Second Lesson : 1 Corinthians, 13
Nunc dimittis (Darke in F) Creed
Lord's Prayer (Robert Stones)
Versicles and Responses (Tomkins) Anthem : If ye love me (Tallis) Prayers
Organist, Harold Darke

Contributors

Organist:
Harold Darke

William Byrd 's Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs (1588)—3. BBC Singers : Margaret Godley , Joyce Sutton , Margaret Rees , Margaret Rolfe , Bradbridge White , Stanley Riley , Emlyn Bebb , Leonard Hubbard. Conducted by Trevor Harvey
Sonnets and Pastorals : -
Who likes to love
My mind to me a kingdom is
Where fancy fond for pleasure cries If women could be fair
0 you that hear this voice Ambitious love

Contributors

Unknown:
William Byrd
Singers:
Margaret Godley
Singers:
Joyce Sutton
Singers:
Margaret Rees
Singers:
Margaret Rolfe
Unknown:
Bradbridge White
Unknown:
Stanley Riley
Unknown:
Emlyn Bebb
Unknown:
Leonard Hubbard.
Conducted By:
Trevor Harvey

answering ' Any Questions ? ' Residents, Dr. Julian S. Huxley and Commander A. B. Campbell. Guests, Sir John Boyd Orr , Compton Mackenzie , and Professor Susan Stebbing. Question-Master, Donald McCullough. Producer,
Howard Thomas. Instead of ' Second Thoughts', it is hoped to bring you a few moments of America's favourite quiz programme, ' Information, Please '.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. Julian S. Huxley
Unknown:
A. B. Campbell.
Unknown:
Sir John Boyd Orr
Unknown:
Compton MacKenzie
Question-Master:
Professor Susan Stebbing.
Question-Master:
Donald McCullough.
Unknown:
Howard Thomas.

Quartet in G, Op. 106 played by the Menges String Quartet Dvorak began the G major Quartet in 1895, soon after his return from America. He was overjoyed at finding himself once more amid familiar scenes, and his joy found full expression in .two magnificent quartets — in A flat. Op. 105, and in G, Op. 106. ' These quartets ', writes Ottokar Sourek , are the swan songs of Dvorak's chamber music, which reaches its ' zenith in these two compositions. Dvorak's artistic nature is manifest here in all its purity and individuality..... The first two movements of the G major Quartet belong to the greatest things which ever came from Dvorak's/ pen.'

Contributors

Unknown:
Ottokar Sourek

A portrait of the artist, Paul Cezanne , introducing his friend the writer, Emile Zola : by Kathleen Raine. Produced by Louis MacNeice
Paul Cezanne was born at Aix-en-Provence in 1893. Encouraged by Emile. Zola , a close friend of his schooldays, he broke away from a legal career and went to study art in Paris, where he met and was influenced by the leading Impressionist painters. Dissatisfied with Impressionist concentration on the appearance of surfaces in light and on its representation tby the use of primary colours, he tried to reunite form and colour in the new manner which led other painters to Cubism. It was written of his work that the nightmare spectacle of these atrocities in oils surpasses every limit of decency ' ; and in his lifetime he suffered the misunderstanding and neglect frequently afforded to the artist ruled by his conscience and true to his own vision.

Contributors

Artist:
Paul Cezanne
Unknown:
Emile Zola
Unknown:
Kathleen Raine.
Produced By:
Louis MacNeice
Produced By:
Paul Cezanne
Unknown:
Emile. Zola

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