Reading for Sunday morning from ' The Spirit of Love ' by William Law '
Read by John Stockbridge
and forecast for farmers and shipping
London Light Concert Orchestra
(Leader, Tom Jenkins )
Conducted by Michael Krein with Cyril Preedy (piano)
Overture. The Marriage of Figaro
(Mozart); Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Kubelik
Recit., Die Frist ist um; Aria, Wie oft in Meeres tiefsten Schlund (Der fliegende Hollander, Act 1) (Wagner): Sigurd Bjorling (bass-baritone) and the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Wilhelm Schüchter
Harold in Italy (Berlioz):
William Primrose (viola) and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt. on gramophone records
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JuUan Herbage
Contents:
' The Music of Michael Tippett ' by John Amis
' Some neglected piano music by Liszt ,' by Louis Kentner
' Music Twenty-five Years Ago,' by Boyd Neel
Conducted by T. C. Worsley
Books: Elspeth Huxley Radio: Henry Reed Art: Eric Newton
Films: Freda Bruce Lockhart
Theatre: Eric Keown
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by Eric Hobbis, Maxwell Knight, and Ralph Wightman
Question-Master, Jack Longland
A play for broadcasting by Clemence Dane with music specially composed by Richard Addinsell
(Continued in next column)
Bristol Concert Orchestra and the West of England Singers
Under the direction of Reginald Redman
Produced by Owen Reed
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
Three Assemblies are meeting this month in Strasbourg at the headquarters of the Council of Europe. The BBC's Special Correspondent at Strasbourg, Kenneth Matthews , explains the purpose of these meetings-the setting up of a European political authority-and reports on the progress of the discussions during the past week
Hans Heinz Schneeberger (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Although he was born in Geneva in 1890, it is only since the war that Frank Martin has established himself as a composer of international standing. Among his most important works are Le Vin Herbe, the oratorio Golgotha, and the delightful 'Petite Symphonie Concertante,' all of which have been broadcast. His Viol n Concerto, written in 1950-51 at the request of the Formation 'Pro Helvetia,' is dedicated to Paul Sacher and the Basle Chamber Orchestra, who played it for the first time, with Hans Heinz Schneeberger as the soIoist at Basle.
Schneeberger, who is twenty-six years old, is a compatriot of the composer, and is now paying his first visit to this country. He has played the Concerto a number of times with much success, in Switzerland and elsewhere, though when the work was previously broadcast, from rhe festival of twentieth-century music in Paris last May, the soloist was Szigeti. With its soaring phrases and kaleidoscopic texture, the Concerto affords plenty of scope to a sensitive and accomplished violinist.
(Harold Rutland)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Talk by Andrew Milbourne
The speaker was one of the gallant band of the 1st Airborne Division who made the landing at Arnhem in 1944- Dur:ng the action he lost both hands and an eye. In this talk he describes his fight to rehabilitate himself; how he worked down a coal mine hauling tubs of coal, and how he has now learned to do office work involving great precision of movement.
(piano)
Beethoven's A flat sonata of 1801, one of the first flowerings of his ' second period," is unconventional in form. Instead of an Allegro for an opening movement, there is an Andante con variazioni (five beautifully contrasted changes rung upon a noble theme), which is followed by a scherzo and trio instead of the slow movement. This comes third, in the shape of the well-known Funeral March (a conception which was to be echoed two years later in the ' Eroica ' symphony). The lovely sunlight of the final rondo, after the solemnity of the Funeral March, is one of Beethoven's happiest inspirations. J. H. Davits
A series of quarterly programmes reviewing archaeological developments and discoveries in the British Isles.
Edited and introduced by Glyn E. Daniel, Ph.D., University Lecturer in Archaeology in the University of Cambridge
In this edition Dr. Daniel introduces: J.F.S. Stone, D.Phil., F.S.A.
Programme produced by Alan Gibson
There is one important point about Stonehenge which was not dealt with in the previous programme in this series, the 'foreign stones' which at some distant period were brought to Stonehenge from far outside Wiltshire. How were they transported, whence and when? Dr. Stone, who is a research chemist, describes how the resources of chemical knowledge have been placed at the service of archaeology in enabling us to answer these questions.
A poetry notebook edited and produced by Patric Dickinson
Reader, V. C. Clinton-Baddeley
' The true light now shineth '
From St. John 9
0 for a thousand tongues (BBC
Hymn Book 278)
St. Luke 1, w. 78-79
