Extracts from Langland's poem
Arranged for broadcasting by Nevill Coghill
Produced by Stephen Potter -
Readers:
Cecil Trouncer , Valentine Dyall Cathleen Nesbitt , Basil Taylor
Anne Cullen , Alexander Sarner Mary Hignett , Malcolm Graeme
This reading includes the famous vision of Christ's harrowing of Hell and the coming of the Anti-Christ, and the world in disaster seeking for Piers Plowman
by David Huelin
Music composed by David Oppenheimer and conducted by Arnold Goldsbrough
Produced by Mary Hope Allen
A masque by James Shirley with music by Matthew Locke and Christopher Gibbons
Edited by Edward J . Dent
London Chamber Singers
London Chamber Orchestra Conductor. Anthony Bernard
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
by Robert Browning
Edited and prepared for broadcasting by M. R. Ridley
Read by Carleton Hobbs
Produced by Christopher Hassall
Hungarian String Quartet
Z. SzSkely (violin)
A. Moskowsky (violin)
D. Koromzay (viola)
V. Palotai (cello)
by Ian Cox
Ian Cox Is interested In verse as a means of vigorous communication in sound. In this talk, which he Illustrates by readings from Sir Walter Raleigh. King Lear. and T. S. Eliot. he argues that times of sudden change in the world result In rapid changes In the spoken language, which are reflected in contemporary verse because the poet particularly requires a vigorous language to express himself
Piano Sonata No. 5, In A
Piano Sonata No. 52, in E flat played by Louis Kentner
(The sonatas are numbered according to- the Breitkopf collected edition of Haydn's works)
First of a series of weekly recitals in which all Haydn's piano works will be played