Quintet in C minor, Op. 115 played by the Quintette de 1' Atelier:
André Profflt (violin) Pierre Simon (violin) Pierre Ladhuie (viola) Charles Bartsch (cello) Emile Passani (piano)
Talk by Evelyn Hardy
The speaker presents an unfamiliar aspect of Jonathan Swift as a great lover of the country—walker, gardener, swimmer, and agricultural theorist.
‘ Alceste '
Overture and Act 1
Covent Garden Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson )
New London Orchestra (Leader, Leonard Hirsch )
Conducted by Constant Lambert
Talk by H.G. Nicholas, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford
The speaker describes the historical development of the idea that, in Britain, the government is given a mandate by the electorate; and he examines its validity.
(Concert continued)
* Iphigenie en Tauride '
Act 3
New London Orchestra
(Leader. Leonard Hirsch )
Conducted by Constant Lambert
Programme devised by Robert Collet
by Henrik Ibsen in a new translation for radio by Peter Watts
Textual adviser, M. C. Bradbrook with Denise Bryer. Hamilton Dyce and Marjorie Westbury
Produced by Peter Watts
Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her
Toccata and Fugue in D minor
(Dorian) played by Susi Jeans
From St. Mark's. North Audley Street Third of a series of programmes of Bach's organ music
Talk by Francis Cammaerts
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Cammaerts , D.s.o., was parachuted into south-eastern France in May 1943 to co-ordinate supplies and sabotage with the French Resistance Movement. In this talk he describes an uncomfortable episode that occurred when his vehicle was searched by the Germans.
Le Sacre du Printemps played by the Orchestra of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk
Conductor,
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt