Sylvia Fisher (soprano)
Frederick Stone (accompanist)
Hirsch String Quartet:
Leonard Hirsch (violin) Reginald Morley (violin)
Max Gilbert (viola)
Harvey Phillips (cello)
Frederick Riddle (viola) James Whitehead (cello)
An exchange between Richard Crossman and Dingle Foot
(Third of 7 Haydn-Mozart concerts conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham )
Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Richard Lewis (tenor) Trevor Anthony (bass)
Olive Zorian (violin)
Winifred Copperwheat (viola)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, Oscar Lampe )
Conductor:
Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt.
Part 1
Talk by Yvette Guyot .
To be repeated tomorrow at 10.50
(Concert continued)
Next concert: June 27
2—‛ Phaedo ’
A new translation by Hugh Tredennick
Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Rayner Heppenstall
The date is 399 B.C. Socrates must take poison at sundown. He spends the day in a debate with his friends on the immortality of the soul. This debate is reported some years later to a group of Peloponnesian disciples by Phaedo, who took part in it
(The recorded broadcast of November 4, 1947, repeated)
Kreisleriana, Op. 16 played by Colin Horsley (piano)