Conductor, Ian Whyte
This evening's programme consists of three little-known works; all works of value, but all three representing their composers in lighter moods characterised by charm rather than by intellectual power. In the case of the Busoni and Berlioz Overtures, the works represent a very early stage in their composers' development.
The Busoni Comedy Overture was written in 1897 and revised in 1904. In its lightness of touch and economical and transparent orchestral writing it looks forward to the whimsical Busoni of 'Turandot' and 'Arlecchino' rather than to the sombre introspection of 'Doctor Faust.'
The Liszt Symphonic Poem 'Festklange' ('Festal Sounds') was written in 1851, and belongs to the same period as most of his larger instrumental compositions. It is the gayest of the symphonic poems, being at times martial, at times lyrical, and at times having a pronouncedly dance-like character.
The 'Waverley' Overture of Berlioz is his earliest surviving composition of any length. It was written in 1827. The beautiful lyrical introduction with its long sustained melody played by the cellos, and the vigorous, breezy, and slightly uncouth Allegro that follows, both anticipate to a striking degree the Berlioz whose style was to reach its full development a few years later in the Fantastic Symphony and in ' Harold in Italy.'
W. R. COLLET

by Moliere. Translated and adapted by Edward Owen Marsh. Music arranged and composed by Leslie Bridgewater. Produced by Noel Iliff
Others taking part are Anne Cullen , Ernest Sefton. Ronald Ibbs. and Victor Fairley
The singers are Marjorie Westbury and Dennis Bowen
Orchestra conducted by Leslie Bridgewater

Hungarian String Quartet:
Z. Szekely (violin), A. Moskowsky (violin), D. Koromzay (viola), V. Palotai (cello) with Frederick Riddle (viola)
Quartet in G (K.387) Quintet in C (K. 515)

10--' Aesop and Rhodope ' by Walter Savage Landor
Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Rayner Heppenstall
Landor wrote more than a hundred ' Imaginary Conversations.' of which two are between the supposed author of ' Aesop's Fables ' (a crippled slave) and the youthful Rhodope. whose beauty is legendary and for whom. it has been said, the third pyramid was built

Symphony of Psalms played by the Walther Straram Orchestra of Paris with the Alexis Vlassoff Choir
Conducted by the composer on gramophone records

(United Nations
Educational. Scientific, and Cultural Organisation)
Talk by L. M. Ravet
Monsieur L. M. Ravet , head interpreter of Unesco, talks about the progress made in the rehabilitation of cultural life in Europe in the last few months. He describes the rehabilitation of universities, schools, and libraries all over the wide areas of devastation, the supply of books and scientific instruments — even of drawing-pins and blotting-paper-the seeking out of university staffs hunted from their lecture rooms by the Nazis. and the training of many thousands of teachers. Unesco is not simply aiming at the material rehabilitation of the instruments of teaching but at the creation of general conditions of scientific and artistic learning all over the world.