Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano)
Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
William Herbert (tenor) Norman Walker (bass) Maurice Vinden (organ)
The London Choir
Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Arnold Goldsbrough
Cantata: Ihr lieben Christen
Organ: Choral Prelude. In dulci Jubilo Cantata: Jesu meine Freude . Organ: Chaconne in E minor
Cantata: Wachet auf; Alleluia
Programme devised by Norman Stone

3 — ' The Musical Designs of Plainsong,' by Alec Robertson

by August Strindberg
Adapted from
Max Faber 's English version
Produced by Wilfrid Grantham

BBC Singers
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
Dorothy Bond (soprano) Elsie Suddaby (soprano)
Rosina Raisbeck (contralto)
Trevor Anthony (bass)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
(Oontinued in next column)
Part 1
Mozart
Excerpts from La Clemenza di Tito
Overture
Aria: S'altro che lagrime (Dorothy
Bond)
Trio: Se al volto (Elsie Suddaby
Rosina Raisbeck , Trevor Anthony )
Canons for Unaccompanied Chorus:
Ave Maria (K.554)
G'rechtelt's enk (K.556)
Gehn wir im Prater (K.558) Bona nox (K.561)
Caro bel 'idol mio (K.562)
Conducted by Leslie Woodgate
(The second, third, and fourth canons are sungin English: translations by Steuart Wilson )
Cassation No. 2, in B flat (K.99)

The execution of Charles I, on January 30, 1649, remains an abiding landmark in British history. In this programme its significance is assessed by two speakers with conflicting viewpoints: the Rt. Hon. Isaac Foot, Chairman of the Cromwell Association, and Roger Fulford, biographer of royalty.

Part 2

A weekly talk on international affairs given by a BBC staff correspondent

Quartet in B flat, Op. 130 played by the New Italian Quartet

Herbert Read reviews ' Notes Towards a Definition of Culture ' by T. S. Eliot , and ' The Dilemma of the Arts ' by Wladimir Weidle