by Sir Kenneth Clark
in original versions for voices and instruments
BBC Singers:
Margaret Godley , Margaret Rees
Maude Baker. Margaret Rolfe
Bradshaw MacMillan , Emlyn Bebb
Stanley Riley , Leonard Hubbard
Conducted by Cyril Gell
Dolmetsch Ensemble:
Carl Dolmetsch
(treble viol and recorder)
Cecile Dolmetsch
(treble viol and recorder)
Stephanie Barker
(tenor viol and recorder)
Nathalie Dolmetsch
(viola da gamba and recorder)
Marie Dolmetsch
(viola da gamba and recorder)
Joseph Saxby (virginals)
' Pascal and Kierkegaard '
T. S. Gregory reviews
Denzil G. M. Patrick 's book
Etudes symphoniques (Op. 13) played by Moura Lympany (piano)
In this talk Siegfried Sassoon examines the qualities of George Meredith as a poet. Mr. Sassoon has devoted much attention to the work of George Meredith and has written a study of him which will be published later in the year. A selection from Meredith's sonnet sequence ' Modern Love ' will be read by Marius Goring tomorrow night. Mr. Sassoon's script is read by Christopher Pemberton
by Marc Blitzstein
(first performance in England)
Robert Shaw (narrator) Charles Holland (tenor) Walter Scheff (baritone)
R.C.A. Victor Chorale
New York City Symphony Orchestra
Conductor, Leonard Bernstein
Introduced by Lionel Salter on gramophone records
A play by Carl Zuckmayer
Adapted for broadcasting by Robert Gore Browne from a literal translation by A. V. Burbury. Produced by Val Gielgud
The Bodley Singers
Conducted by Philip J. Taylor
Programme edited by Dom Anselm Hughes , o.s.B.
Introduced by Alec Robertson
A talk by Graham Hutton