A Ceremony of Carols
BBC Chorus
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
Sidonie Goossens (harp)
Prelude and Fugue
Geraint Jones (organ)
Festival Cantata: Rejoice in the Lamb
Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Robert Irwin (baritone)
Geraint Jones (organ) Morley College Choir
Conducted by Michael Tippett
Ian Cox introduces E. N. da C. Andrade, F.R.S., Professor of Physics, London University, who says why the various musical instruments sound different; and Dennis Fry, of the Phonetics
Department, London University, who describes the part the mind -as opposed to the ear pure and simple-plays in the hearing
Hungarian String Quartet:
Z. Szekely (violin), A. Moskowsky (violin), D. Koromzay (viola), V. Palotai (cello)
Part 1
Eric Linklater on Richard Hillary
Flight Lieutenant Richard Hillary died on active service in 1943, aged twenty-three. In his book ' The Last Enemy' and in other ways he revealed great promise. Eric Linklater , in tonight's talk, describes Hillary's personality and his quality as a writer
Part 2
Fragments of an Aristophanic melodrama by T. S. Eliot. Produced by Patric Dickinson
John Maynard Keynes 's famous book. ' The Economic Consequences of the Peace,' and the recently published work in which Etienne Mantoux. a young Frenchman killed on active service in tbis war, has challenged the whole basis of its argument, are discussed by R. S. Hope , an economist trained in the Keynesian tradition, and E. W. Hughes , a student of International Affairs
A study of Shakespeare's dramatic use of contemporary music and songs. Compiled and produced by Douglas Cleverdon. With a company of sundry players, singers,, and musicians. Music supervised by Elizabeth Poston
Frederick Grinke (violin)
Kendall Taylor (piano) Arthur Gleghorn (flute)
Arthur Ackroyd (piccolo)
Alec Whittaker (oboe)
Donald Bridger (cor anglais)
Reginald Kell (clarinet)
Frank Hughes (E flat clarinet)
Mendelssohn Draper (bass clarinet)
John Alexander and Vernon Elliott (bassoons)
Roy White and Frank Probyn (horns)
Harold Jackson (trumpet)
Anthony Thorpe (trombone)
Henry Hoist (violin)
Herbert Downes (viola)
Anthony Pini (cello)
Conducted by Edward Clark