An impression by Desmond MacCarthy
Marschner and Spohr sung by Trefor Jones (tenor) played by members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra:
Lambert Flack (flute) Edward Selwyn (oboe) Ralph Clarke (clarinet)
Richard Newton (bassoon)
Aubrey Thonger (horn)
Paul Beard (violin)
Harry Danks (viola) Peter Muscant (cello)
Eugene Cruft (double bass)
Talk by Major General Gordon Grimsdale , who was until recently Deputy Chairman of the Anglo-American Economic Control Group. (This group directed the Germans in charge of the economy of the Anglo-U.S. zones of occupation) followed at 7.20 by Interlude
(Leader, Leonard Hirsch )
Conducted by Richard Austin
Dinu Lipatti (piano)
From the concert given by the New Era Concert Society at the Royal Albert Hall, London
The last of five talks by Dr. J. Bronowski on the growth of science and its creative ideas in relation to society and the arts
1-' In the Appartamento Borgia ’
Written for broadcasting by Sean O'Faolaln
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall
WithFelix Aylmer as Pope Alexander VI and Arthur Young as Fra Girolamo Savonarola
The date is 1496, two years before Savonarola was burned in Florence. Unhistorically, he accedes to the Borgian Pope 's demand that he shall visit Rome
Flora Nielsen (mezzo-soprano)
Hirsch String Quartet:
Leonard Hirsch (violin) Reginald Morley (violin)
Max Gilbert (viola)
Harvey Phillips (cello) with Colin Horsley (piano)
The Brahms Quartet is to be repeated on Wednesday at 8.50
A general review by Roy Fuller -
Reader, Reginald Beckwith
Production by Patric Dickinson
The Bodley Singers
Conducted by Philip J. Taylor
Diana Poulton (lute)
Programme edited by Doin Anselm Hughes. o.s.B.
Introduced by Alec Robertson
A talk by T. W. Earp
