Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Muriel Gale (contralto)
Rene Soames (tenor) Eric Greene (tenor)
Norman Walker (bass)
The London Choir
(Conductor, Maurice Vinden )
Instrumental Ensemble
Maurice Vinden (organ)
Conductor, Arnold Goldsbrough
(Cuthman, Saint of Sussex) A play by Christopher Fry
Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Robert Gittings
with Frederick Stone (piano)
Songs by Schubert:
Fahrt zum Hades (Mayrhofer)
Der Schiffer (Mayrhofer)
Grenzen der Menschheit (Goethe)
Songs by Hugo Wolf :
Grenzen der Menschheit (Goethe)
Der Tamboiu (Morike)
Der Feuerreiter (Morike)
Passages from John Tyndall 's address to the British Association at Belfast, 1874
Schumann's music and spoken excerpts from
Byron's dramatic poem With
Other parts played by Peter Creswell. George Owen. Lydia Sherwood , and Raf de la Torre
BBC Chorus
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt
Sir Robert Robinson, President of the Royal Society and Sir Edward Appleton, G.B.E., K.C.B., F.R.S.
A special meeting of research directors and managers in industry arranged by the Federation of British Industries to hear addresses by. and to pay honour to the 1947 Nobel Prizewinners in Science.