Gareth Morris (flute)
Stephen Waters (clarinet)
Gwendolen Mason (harp)
Hirsch String Quartet:
Leonard Hirsch (violin) Reginald Morley (violin)
Max Gilbert (viola)
Harvey Phillips (cello)
Loredana Franceschini (piano)
String Quartet
Gaspard de la Nuit , for piano: Ondine: Le gibet: Scarbo
Introduction and Allegro, for flute, clarinet, string quartet, and harp
reads his Four Quartets ' on gramophone records
Mass in B minor
Elsie Suddaby (soprano)
Anne Wood (contralto)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Bruce Boyce (baritone) Trevor Anthony (bass)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate ) George Thalben-Ball (organ)
Winifred Davey (harpsichord)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Part 1
A birthday review by Harold Nicolson
The Third Programme is two years old today.
Mass in B minor
Part 2
(Bruce Boyce broadcasts by arrangement with the Nero London Opera Company)
Sir Osbert Sitwell reads his short story.
Hubert Barwahaer (flute)
Maskan Stotyn (oboe)
Piet Houwekemeyer (violin)
Koen van der Molan (viola)
Johan De Nobel (cello)