The Loewenguth Quartet:
Alfred Loewenguth (violin). Maurice Fueri (violin), Roger Roche (viola), Pierre Basseux (cello)
Kathleen Long (piano)
Faure's first quintet, one of his finest works, was begun in 1886 and only completed thirty years later. It was the one chamber work this master of chamber music wrote during that long period. Consisting of only three movements, it compensates for the lack of a scherzo by an extended finale, whose principal theme recalls the ' Ode to Joy' melody in Beethoven's Choral Symphony
EDWARD L0CKSPEISER

Harold Nicolson discusses the life and character of William Fletcher , whose half-comic, half-pathetic figure Is familiar to readers of Byron's poems and correspondence. Summoned from the plough to become valet to the young lord of Newstead, Fletcher shared Byron's journeys, crises, and exile, and was beside his death-bed at Missolonghi

by George Farquhar
Adapted for broadcasting by Ronald Simpson
Produced by Felix Felton
With Rene Soames (tenor), and Frederick Stone (harpsichord)

Rondo in D (K.485)
Adagio in B minor (K.540)
Fantasia and Fugue in C (K.394) played by Denise Lassimonne (piano)

A dramatic speculation by Henry Reed
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall
Music composed by William Words -worth and conducted by Leighton Lucas. With Martin Boddey (tenor), Stanley Riley (bass), Marjorie Avis (soprano), and the BBC Women's Chorus