(piano)
Cecil McGivem , writer and producer, who was responsible for such famous productions as ' Battle of Britain,' ' Junction X,' and 'Mulberry,' left the BBC a year ago and is now giving the first of a series of criticisms of radio drama and feature productions. This week he deals principally with ' Man and Superman' and ' How to Listen'
David Martin (violin)
Robert Masters (violin)
Max Gilbert (viola)
BBC Chorus
George Thalben-Ball (organ)
Conductor, Zoltan Kodaly
Jesus and the Traders
6.37 app. Serenade, for two violins and viola
6.55 app. Missa Brevis
(First performance in England)
The Serenade represents a typically Hungarian aspect of Kodaly s art-rhapsodic, deliberately rough-hewn, or naive. Another, more severe, aspect of his art is represented by the unaccompanied Motet Jetus and the Traders, originally set by the composer to English words, and also by his recent Missa Brevis. The style of this liturgical Mass is strictly tonal and Kodaly's power is revealed here in his ability to bring new life to the old forms
A selection from his poetry made by C. S. Lewis , and read by Stephen Murray (by permission of Associated British Pictures Corporation)
Conductor, Charles Munch
Part 1
by V. S. Pritchett
1-Gogol
Part 2
Best known in the form of two orchestral suites, Ravel's ballet Daphnis and Chloe is a work whose significance in the music of our time has steadily increased since its production by DiaghUev in 1912, so that today it is recognised as one of the greatest achievements of French music
The first of a weekly series of programmes devoted to architecture, painting, sculpture, and design. Speakers: Philip Hendy, Director of the National Gallery, and the painter William Coldstream. Programme introduced by Anthony West
Fantasia in memory of my father
(Busoni): Egon Petri
Songs from the Spanisches Liederbuch
(Hugo Wolf)
Sonatina ad usum infantis (Busoni):
Egon Petri on gramophone records
A reading from his works to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of his death
First of two new programmes in this series, in which ordinary people discuss issues of current interest as well as recurrent abstract problems
1-' The World We Fought For ' : a discussion between ex-Servicemen and others.
