Stephen Waters (clarinet)
Zorian String Quartet:
Olive Zorian (violin)
Marjorie Lavers (violin)
Winifred Copperwheat (viola)
Norina Semino (cello)
Benjamin Britten (piano)
From the Parish Church, Aldeburgh
by John A. Hawgood, Professor of Modem History and Government, University of Birmingham
The second of a series of three talks on the Revolutions of 1848
Study in canon form, in A flat, Op. 56
No. 4
Humoreske, Op. 20 played by Adelina de Lara (piano)
conducts an operatic concert in commemoration of Arrigo Boito with soloists, and the Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
From La Scala, Milan
Mefistofele
Prologue: In Heaven Prison Scene (Act 3)
Nerone, Act 3
During the concert there are two intervals of fifteen minutes each in which Frank Birch comments on recent dramatic productions in the Third Programme and a BBC staff correspondent talks on international affairs
' The Discovery and Editing of Old Music '
The first of two talks by Dr. Ernst Meyer
Musical illustrations by Norbert Brainin (violin) and Arnold Goldsbrough (harpsichord)
The Renaissance Singers
Conductor, Michael Howard
Programme edited by Henry Coates
(A recording of a programme in the series ' A History in Sound of European Music,' broadcast on May 1)