Quintet in C, Op. 163 played by the Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin)
Peter Schidlot (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Terence Weil (cello)
and his Thesaurus Harmonieus'
Matyas Seiber talks about this sixteenth-century lutenist and his important collection of contemporary lute music
Illustrations by John Francis (flute)
Millicent Silver (harpsichord)
BBC Singers
E. H. Carr reviews the newly published biography by I. Deutscher
A Usyless Discussion on Hamlet or Hamnet
Arranged for broadcasting by John Keir Cross from a Shakespearian Dialogue by James Joyce
Production by Noel Iliff
Duo in B flat for violin and viola
(K.424) played by Jean Pougnet (violin) and Frederick Riddle (viola)
Tyrone Guthrie returned recently from a seven weeks' tour of Australia. He brought back some varied but very definite impressions of the continent, and tonight he describes them
Opera in three acts based on Hans Andersen 's Fairy Tale
Music by Igor Stravinsky . and Chorus of Radiodiffusion Frangaise
(Directed by Yvonne Gouvernay )
Orchestra of Radiodiffusion Franchise
Conductor, Roger Desormifere
Act 1: A stretch of country by the sea. Night
Act 2: The Porcelain Palace of the Emperor of China
Act 3: A room in the Palace
From Paris.
Aspects of his poetry discussed by Richard Hughes
Reader, John Laurie
New Italian Quartet:
Paolo Borclani (violin) Elisa Pegreffl (violin) Piero Farulli (viola) Franco Rossi (cello)
Talk by T. S. Gregory , President of the Aquinas Society and late Editor of the Dublin Review