Settings of poems by Goethe, and Piano Sonata in A minor, op. 164. Introduced by Mosco Carner
Peter Stadlen (piano)
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Arthur Carron (tenor)
Henry Cummings (baritone)
Frederick Stone (accompanist)
Gretchen am Spinnrade : NShe des Geliebten; An Schwager Kronos; Erster Veriust; Versunken
Piano Sonata in A minor. Op. 164 Der Musensohn; Wanderers Nachtlied (der du von dem Himmel bist): Restlose Liebe; Ganymed; Der Erlkonlg
' Any Questions?': Professor E. N. da C. Andrade. F.R.S., Professor Herbert Dingle, and Professor J. Z. Young answer a selection of questions received from listeners
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Eugene Goossens
Part 1
A serial survey of some contemporary verse-2
The Poet: Edith Sitwell
The Critic : Henry Reed
Presented by E. J. King Bull
A sequence of four programmes will be devoted to each Poet and Critic. The first comprises a number of poems selected by the Critic as an introduction In the second the Critic expresses his personal attitude to poetry, and his appreciation of the Poet. In the third, the Poet replies. The fourth programme, introduced also by the Critic, consists of further examples of the Poet's work. which they have chosen in collaboration.
Part 2
From the People's Palace, London
Weekly series of critiques in which one contemporary writer is examined by another, with illustrations from his work
A dramatised defence of the artist and his ways by Robert Melville, including the views of an artist on the ' double face,' the ' veiled likeness.' monsters, surrealism, and other manifestations of unpopular art, and the views of a businessman on the artist
Produced by Edward Livesey
' Stravinsky and Neo-Classicism': a talk by Nadia Boulanger , illustrated by the Nadia Boulanger Ensemble and John Wills (piano)
from Paris
Louis Aragon reads selections from his own works
Natalie James and Marian Attwood (oboes), Edward Selwyn (oboe and cor anglais), Frederick Thurston and Sidney Fell (clarinets), Walter Lear , Richard Temple-Savage , and Francis Reidy (basset horns). Cecil James Tom Wightman , and Val Kennedy (bassoons) Anthony Baines (double bassoon), Dennis Brain and Norman Del Mar (horns), Malcolm Arnold (trumpet)
Conductor, Karl Haas
Gwen Catley (soprano)
Nora Gruhn (soprano)
Robert Irwin (baritone)
