Programme devised and introduced by Don Anselm Hughes , O.s.B.
The Bodley Singers and instrumental ensemble
Carnival Song: Orientis partibus (The Song of the Ass) (c. 1223)
Free Organum: Catholicorum concio (twelfth century)
Dance tunes from a St. Andrews manuscript (c. 1250)
Carol for three voices: Verbum patris humanatur (thirteenth century)
Middle English Song: Fowles in the Frith (c. 1270)
Descant from Worcester: Beata viscera (c. 1280)
Early fourteenth - century motets:
Super te, Jerusalem (four-part): Triumphat hodie (three-part with Hocket): Rondel for three baritones. Fulget caelestis curia
Christmas Sequence: Glad and Blithe
(c. 1425)
Song for alto voice and gamba: I rede that thou be jolly and glad (e. 1425)
Regali Magnificat , for five voices, by Robert Fayrfax (c. 1500)
A weekly talk on international affairs given by a BBC staff correspondent
An appreciation by * Montgomery Hyde
Richard Le Gallienne , poet and essayist, was born in 1866 and died this year on September 15. Montgomery Hyde speaks of him as a personal friend, as a writer, and as one of the few remaining links with the literary world of the 'nineties
Rhapsody for clarinet and orchestra (Debussy): M. Hamelin (clarinet) and orchestra conducted by Piero Coppola
Poeme de l'extase (Scriabin):
Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowsky on gramophone records
Tyrone Guthrie , whose reputation as a theatrical producer has tended to make people forget that he was once a radio producer and a writer of radio plays, comments on recent dramatic productions in the Third Programme
Spanisches Liederspiel, Op. 74
A cycle of songs
Poems translated from
Spanish folksongs and romances by Emanuel Giebel
Irmgard Seefried (soprano)
Elisabeth Hongen (contralto).
Anton Dermota (tenor)
Hans Hotter (bass-baritone)
Ernest Lush (piano)
Erste Begegnung; Intermezzo; Liebesgram: In der Nacht; Es ist verrathen: Melancholie; Gestandniss; Botschaft; Ich bin geliebt
Arranged for broadcasting and introduced by M. R. Ridley
John Byron
Gladys Young
Arthur Young , and Stephen Murray in ' KING HENRY VI'
(Shortened version of the three plays)
Fanfares and incidental music composed and directed by Antony Hopkins
Produced by Felix Felton
The play will be broadcast in two parts with an interlude of music
