A talk by J. Isaacs
Stevenson, who died in 1900 at the age of fifty-three, was the author of books on Valasquez and Rubens, and, in the period between Ruskin and Roger Fry, was one of the most notable writers on art
The fifth in a series of six programmes on the English lutenists, devised by Diana Poulton
Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano)
Rene Soames (tenor) Diana Poulton (lute)
Nathalie Dolmetsch (gamba) Carl Dolmetsch (treble viol)
A weekly talk on international affairs given by a BBC staff correspondent
Sonata in E flat. Op. 120 No. 2 played by Frederick Thurston (clarinet) and Ernest Lush (piano)
A second talk by Yvette Guyot on life in Paris and the provinces
sung by Genevieve Touraine (soprano) with Ernest Lush (piano)
Three poems by Baudelaire:
Harmonie du soir Recueillement
La mort des amants
De fleurs and De soir from Proses
Lyriques (words by Debussy)
Chansons de Bilitis (poems by Pierre
Louys):
La flûte de Pan La chevelure
Le tombeau des Naiades
introduces a personal anthology of poetry
Reader, John Laurie
Produced by Patrlc Dickinson
Symphony No. 4, in E minor played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by John Barbirolli
In the second of three talks to commemorate the Jubilee of the BBC, J. A. Westrup, Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, describes the range and variety of broadcast music, its presentation, and its effect upon the musical life of the country
Concerto for ftute and harp (K.299) (with cadenzas by Reynaldo Hahn ) played by G. Crunelle (flute) and P. Jamet (harp) with orchestra conducted by G. CloSz on gramophone records