1 A Hymn of the Name and Honor of the Admirable Saint Teresa ' by Richard Crashaw
' A Ballad Upon a Wedding ' by Sir John Suckling
' Exequy on his Wife ' by Henry King
Read by Anthony Quayle
Production by Frank Hauser
played by Albert Ferber
Monk Gibbon reviews the recently published biography by Derrick Leon
Concert from the Great Hall at Hampton Court
(by gracious permission of H.M. The King) Programme presented by the London Opera Club in conjunction with the Arts Council of Great Britain
Part 1
A Pastoral Divertissement
Music by Purcell from The Tempest, A Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, Dioclesian, King Arthur, The Comical History of Don Quixote. Abdelazar, Orpheus Britannicus, The Indian Queen
Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano)
Donald Munro (baritone)
A Chamber Ensemble
Conducted by Anthony Lewis
by Robert Graves
During a recent visit to England Robert Graves, whose ' King Jesus ' was published in 1946 recorded some comments on several of the New Testament parables and their historical setting
Part 2
Tercentenary performance of ' Venus and Adonis '
A Masque for the Entertainment of the King by John Blow (soprano)(baritone)(soprano)(tenor)(soprano)(bass)
Chorus of shepherds shepherdesses, huntsmen, cupids A Chorus and Chamber Ensemble
Conducted by Anthony Lewis
Produced by Tom Harrison
by Euripides
Translated by Philip Vellacott
of Euripides
(vv. 1212-1218, 456-466. 218-235 687-705 1379-1402. 392-120, in the Oxford Text)
Programme compiled and introduced by Philip Vellacott
Readers: Hermione Hannen
Anthony Jacobs , Raf de la Torre and Heather Brown of Girton College
Commentary by R. F. Willetts
Lecturer in Greek in the University of Birmingham
Production by Raymond Raikes
String Quartet in F played by the Quatuor Haydn:
Georges Maes (violin) Louis Hertogh (violin)
Louis Logie (viola)
Rene Pousseele (cello)