Settings of poems by Schiller
Victoria Sladen (soprano)
Henry Cummings (baritone)
Marian Zigmunt (bass) Frederick Stone (piano)
Programme introduced by Mosco Carner
By
G. M. Trevelyan , O.M.,
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, being a lecture given before the Royal Institution on November 15, 1946
sung by the BBC Singers:
Margaret Godley. Margaret Rees , Maude Baker. Margaret Rolfe. William MacMillan. Emlyn Bebb. Stanley Riley. Leonard Hubbard
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
A Ian Bullock reviews ' On
Liberty,' by J. S. Mill
Comment and Action
A series of programmes designed to introduce great English and foreign plays that are seldom performed in this country
2—' TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT
' by Christopher Marlowe
(The birth of English poetic drama)
Selections from the play, with a commentary written by M. R. Ridley
Produced by Mary Hope Allen
Music, Broadcasting, and the Theatre
A sequence of recordings, made in Denmark last summer by Laurence Gilliam, illustrating some aspects of the artistic life of the country today
The recordings include the 'Expansiva' symphony of Carl Nielsen, played by the Orchestra of the Danish State Radio in their new Concert Hall in Copenhagen; extracts from the Royal Theatre production of Mozart's 'Don Giovanni', with the Royal Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Johan Hye Knudsen, and a commentary by Christen Jul; and several examples of early organ music played on the seventeenth-century organ in the Chapel at Frederiksborg Castle
Mendelssohn
The ' Italian ' Symphony, played by the Halle Orchestra, conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty on gramophone records