In the third of the series of talks devoted to the provincial museums and art galleries, Jonathan Mayne talks about the Birmingham gallery and reviews the Pre-Raphaelite exhibition at present being held there
Dr. E. H. Gombrich reviews a recent book on Oskar Kokoscha by Edith Hoffmann
(piano)
(1810-1848)
A talk by Isaiah Berlin on the great Russian critic
Belinsky is one of the most vivid figures in the history of Russian social evolution. He introduced the social criticism of literature and had a great influence not only on the revolutionary writers of the nineteenth century but also on Lenin and his followers. Belinsky was the first of the ' new men ' who destroyed the aristocratic tradition in Russian literature. He, like so many of his contemporaries. though a great admirer of Western civilisation, was hostile and suspicious of it. The Soviet revolution revived Belinsky's fame and, in a different form, his social criterion of art
The St. Michael's Singers
Conductor, Harold Darke
From St. Michael's. Cornhill
by Harley Granville-Barker
Part 1
sung by Gerhard Hiisch (baritone) with members of the Berlin State Opera Orchestra
Conducted by Hans Udo Miiller on gramophone records
Part 2
Trio in F minor, Op. 65 played by the Harry Isaacs Trio:
Leonard Hirsch (violin), James Whitehead (cello), Harry Isaacs (piano)