Symphony for Strings (1941) played by the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra Conducted by Charles Munch on gramophone records
Readings from the works of great preachers from 1500 to the present day
10 - John Calrd 's sermon, ' Religion in Common Life,' preached before Queen Victoria at Balmoral in 1855 Read by Harry Lockwood West In her Journal, under the date October 14, 1855. Queen Victoria wrote: 'To Kirk at twelve o'clock. The Rev. J. Caird one of the most celebrated preachers in Scotland, performed the service, and electrified all present by a most admirable and beautiful sermon, which lasted nearly an hour. but which kept one's attention riveted..... It was as fine as Mr. McLeod's sermon last year and sent us home much edified
Serenade in B flat (K.361) played by the London Wind Players:
Terence MacDonagh (oboe)
Leonard Brain (oboe)
Stephen Waters (clarinet)
Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Walter Lear (basset horn)
Frank Hughes (basset horn)
Edward Wilson (bassoon)
Vernon Elliot (bassoon)
Dennis Brain (horn)
Roy White (horn)
Maurice Handford (horn)
Ian Beers (horn)
J. Edward Merrett (double-bass)
Conductor, Harry Blech
Talk by R. W. Ketton-Cremer
Twelve volumes of the Yale Edition (edited by W. S. Lewis ) of Horace Walpole 's Correspondence' have already been published in this country. It is probable that the edition will extend to at least fifty volumes, and it is unlikely to be completed before 1970. R. W. Ketton-Cremer, himself a biographer of Walpole. describes the plan of the edition and discusses the letters still to be published
Rene Soames (tenor)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, Oscar Lampe )
Conductor,
Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt.
9.0 app. Interval
9.15 app. Appalachia: Variations on an old slave song, with chorus...Delius
An illustrated talk, written by Marion Scott and read by Alec Robertson , on the complete series of Haydn's piano works now being broadcast in the Third Programme. Illustrations by Albert Ferber , piano
A programme about the work of Walter de la Mare , and the impression it made on a young girl in the Provinces
Written by Dorothy Baker
Produced by Edward Livesey
